When foreign trade clothing first emerged, there were still many genuine goods. It could be said to be the golden age of foreign trade clothing. Now, as foreign trade clothing becomes more and more popular, countless fakes are swarming out. Foreign trade clothing has entered the era of scrap metal. I see so many friends buying fake goods but thinking they have bought the real foreign trade original order and are complacent, while profiteers are snickering on the sidelines. I would like to offer my experience in the foreign trade clothing industry. I have gained some experience in distinguishing genuine and fake foreign trade clothing over the years. I hope that friends can learn something useful from it

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1. Brands have Readers are going to say, don’t you want to talk about how to distinguish between true and false? Why did a brand come out? What does this have to do with authenticity? Haha, let me tell you slowly. Why should we list the brand as the first key? Because there are many second- and third-tier brands abroad that are very famous in their own countries. Just like our Li Ning, Anta, and Septwolves, they are very popular in China, but they are not popular abroad at all. Know what brand it is. In the same way, many popular brands sold abroad are unknown to everyone because they are not promoted in China, but their styles and fabrics are very good. For brands like these that are not very famous in China, those counterfeit factories simply ignore them because the market determines everything. No one knows these brands. Counterfeiting is not profitable and they cannot be sold. It is better to make more Nike and Adidas. As the saying goes, the best selling products in China are those brands that sell well in China, such as Nike, Adidas, Back to Back, etc. According to the author’s statistics, currently more than 95% of the imitation copies are from those brands that sell well in China. For popular brands, there are very few counterfeits for foreign brands that are not well-known in China. This also determines that we can choose good products from some unknown brands in China, such as CANTERBURY, a New Zealand clothing brand. , its logo is a LOGO composed of three New Zealand national birds, the kiwi. It belongs to the top brand in the rugby world. In the southern hemisphere and English-speaking countries, foreigners flock to it. It is extremely popular in Asia, Japan and Hong Kong. It is sold in specialty stores. The price is also very expensive, one piece costs six to seven hundred yuan, but because it is not well-known in China, it will not make its own instructions. The possibility of such a product being fake is extremely small, and its workmanship and The fabric is really great, it can be said to be a rare good product. Of course, this does not mean that all big brands are fakes. If you reach the level of the author, you can still find real gold through the waves.

2. Fabric To truly determine the quality of a piece of foreign trade clothing, in the final analysis, it depends on the fabric. Fabric is the foundation of a piece of clothing and the most important component of it. The quality of the fabric determines the quality of a piece of clothing and the grade of a brand. Many high-end brands have their own proprietary fabrics. , and even applied for a patent. It is unique and no one can imitate it. For example, Adidas' ClimaLite is a lightweight and breathable fabric that is close to the skin surface and can take heat and sweat away from the body, allowing you to wear it even in the most difficult conditions. Stays cool and dry in hot conditions. It also provides UV sun protection function to filter out harmful components in the sun. Another example is NIKE's FLYDRY fabric. The same principle applies. Such fabrics have high technological content and cannot be copied. And good fabrics should be soft and comfortable, but not sacrificial. For example, pure cotton with a high thread count has a thick texture and will not be easily deformed after being washed several times; good coat fabrics have a vague sheen and will not pill after being rubbed several times; down jackets should be comfortable to the touch. It's soft, you can't touch the feather stems, and it has anti-velvet compartments. Genuine fabrics are always soft and tough, and the texture is very delicate. In fact, the feeling is hard to describe. Anyway, genuine fabrics will make you feel comfortable as soon as you use them. , enough to conclude that he is real. You'll know when you get a chance to feel it.

Brand LOGO embroidery. The embroidery of brand foreign trade clothing LOGO shows the most skill, and it is also something that many small counterfeit factories cannot do with their rough workmanship. Generally, the embroidery of genuine brand LOGO is quite delicate, full and free of clutter. The embroidery of this logo, such as Nike’s swoosh, seems very simple, but in fact the embroidery of this LOGO is not that easy. The number and proportion of stitches need to be strictly controlled, so we see many imitation goods. Most of the embroidered LOGOs will be It makes people feel awkward and uncomfortable, but the embroidery of the real original item will be very comfortable, like flowing water, done in one go.

It’s like KAPPA’s LOGO, with two men and women back to back, which is quite complicated. There are many details in it. First of all, check whether the female breasts are protruding, and also check whether the female buttocks are larger than the male ones, and their shapes are different. Also, the female height is lower than the male height, and the overall mark is It is embroidered or printed in one color, and the texture is clear, neat and fine. At the same time, I would like to explain that one difference between the exported KAPPA LOGO and the domestic counter KAPPA LOGO is that the toes on the foreign KAPPA LOGO are not bifurcated, while the toes on the domestic KAPPA LOGO are bifurcated. Yes, many people use this distinction to tell the authenticity of KAPPA. This is actually wrong. You can go to KAPPA’s foreign official website to see that the toes are not bifurcated, so this symbol that you think is a fake is actually wrong. Cha Cha may be the sign of genuine foreign trade clothing. In fact, the foreign versions of many brands are different from the domestic versions. The method of distinguishing authenticity from fakes, which is regarded as a golden rule in China, is not applicable to foreign trade clothing, and it is easy to make jokes. It seems that Adidas has a way to tell that the letter I must be glued to the three bars. In fact, many exported Adidas do not have this rule, and the funny thing is that many people think it is a fake just based on this one, and they are wrong. Great opportunity to find something good. In fact, if you think about it, if you really want to fake it, it is very simple to put the letters on top, and it does not require any skills at all. Why should you leave such a big flaw for you to catch? It is as easy as embroidering a fork in KAPPA embroidery. Sometimes if you think backwards, you can see the truth of the matter. In fact, brands such as Adidas and Back-to-Back, which are so expensive in China, are only second- and third-rate brands abroad. They are often sold in supermarkets and other hypermarkets for only a few dollars. Therefore, the workmanship is relatively rough and the requirements in all aspects are also very rough. It is not as strict as in China, but the fabric is still its own fabric, which is still the same as that of domestic counters. In short, imitation embroidery gives people an awkward feeling, and everyone will feel this way after seeing it too much.

4. Accessories: Accessories are buttons, zippers and other accessories. Use these details to confirm the authenticity of foreign trade clothing. Just like buttons, the cost of engraving a brand logo on them is relatively high. It costs a lot of money to open a mold, so generally counterfeiters will not spend this money, so you can tell the authenticity of a brand of buttons by looking at them. . For example, the logo on the buttons of this Kalkani button is laser etched, which is very dynamic. It costs a lot of money to make a mold. Kalkani is an American street brand and the godfather of fashion. It is not well-known in China, and counterfeiters will never do it. It will take a lot of money and effort to open a mold to make special buttons, so based on the detail of the buttons, you can determine that this clothing is genuine foreign trade clothing. There are also zippers. Big brands like NIKE basically use YKK zippers. If you look at the workmanship and fineness of the zippers, you can tell something about it. However, due to the high price of YKK zippers, domestic counter products are definitely 100. %YKK,

However, big brands will strictly control the entry and exit of raw materials because of fear of "piracy". As mentioned above, after placing an order, foreign companies have relatively strict control over accessories such as buttons, zippers, and tags. Because each carrot has a pit, the quantity of accessories can be calculated, and it is impossible to have too much. Unlike fabric, the amount cannot be accurately calculated. After completing an order, garment factories usually have leftover fabric and run out of buttons and zippers. At this time, some manufacturers "waste recycling", using excess original fabrics and randomly finding some accessories to make a batch of clothes based on the original styles. Although the details of this batch of clothes are rough, the fabrics are all original, and they are also rare "top quality" among foreign trade goods.

5. Small details and small accessories Many genuine foreign trade clothing can often be distinguished from some small details and small accessories. For example, colorful striped shirts and skirts made of large floral fabrics test the workmanship of foreign trade garment factories the most. The exquisitely handmade clothes, the direction of the colorful stripes and the arrangement of the patterns will all be arranged in advance. At the seams of the shoulders, cuffs, and waist of the clothes, strips of the same color on the left and right sides are exactly aligned and moving in the same direction; each petal of the flower is embedded "seamlessly" to form a complete flower. This approach not only requires careful planning in advance, but also wastes a lot of fabric. Some high-end ready-to-wear fabrics do not have repeated patterns within 1 meter. You can imagine how much material is wasted to create a flower.

There are also many authentic clothes with unexpected little accessories that fakes will never have. For example, I have seen a store version of KAPPA. The workmanship seems to be quite rough and it looks like a fake. However, there is a black strip on the wash label. What is that? It turned out to be an anti-theft strip used in supermarkets. Our domestic supermarkets usually have a large nail nailed in. Only foreign supermarkets will install such a nail in clothing. Imitation products will never install such a thing, so It can be determined to be genuine foreign trade clothing. Another example is a pair of quicksilver surfing board shorts I saw. There is a plastic saw tooth in the bag. What is this? It turns out that it is a gadget that all professional beach pants have, and is used as an emergency when encountering danger. I don’t even know what the fakes are, let alone counterfeit.

6. Labels The labels of authentic products are very particular, and many anti-counterfeiting measures are mainly applied to labels. For example, ADIDAS and NIKE, most of the functional fabric clothes use offset printed main labels, so carefully Just observe the flatness and clarity of the main mark. If it is a region-specific version, only the dimensions of the designated region will be marked on it. If it is a multi-country version, the sizes of eight countries will be marked. There are also some washing labels with factory serial numbers, etc., which can be used as a basis for distinguishing authenticity. Another example is the ADIDAS national flag logo. You can tell whether it is genuine or fake just by looking at the printing quality of the flags of eight countries. The genuine ones have bright colors, while the fake ones have dull colors, blurred stripes, or don’t have the flags of the eight countries. There are also some brands that have anti-counterfeiting labels, and you can determine the authenticity by looking at the anti-counterfeiting labels, such as Reebok and FILA.

7. Defects: Some people who are shopping for foreign trade clothes like to pick up the clothes and carefully check the stitching; or they may shine the sweater left and right under the fluorescent lamp to look for traces of snagging and missing stitches. Once a "fault" is found, they are told that the boss is using "substandard goods" to fool them. Not really. Some "defective goods" that are full of loopholes may be the "twin brothers" of the clothes in the specialty store. Generally speaking, after the clothes processed in China are ready, they must first be inspected by foreigners. The inspector picks out the defective clothes, puts a small red arrow next to the defect, and sends them back to the factory. Although such foreign trade returns may sometimes have color differences, missing stitches and snags, they are made of the highest quality fabrics and ingredients and have top-notch workmanship. As soon as you put them on, you can feel the word "genuine." In fact, our foreign trade clothing is mainly made of these defective products. These small flaws that more or less do not affect the wear are the signs of authenticity. Only those products with no flaws should be more careful.

8. Looking at the size of clothes is also a way to distinguish genuine and fake foreign trade clothes. The body shapes of European and American people are different from Asians, so the sizes of their clothes are also different from ours. This is Asia. There are differences between European and American sizes. The body shape of European and American people determines that if we Asians are not particularly fat or tall, we are not suitable to wear their sizes. Counterfeit factories will never imitate clothes that use European sizes because they are simply not suitable for them. For sale domestically. Of course, clothes exported to Europe and the United States are in European sizes. If a piece of clothing is exported to Europe and the United States but is marked with Asian sizes, it must be a fake. Only clothes exported to Japan and South Korea are of comparable size to ours, so the sizes of Japanese and Korean clothes are different because of their workmanship and quality. Size is considered golden for foreign trade clothing.

9. Label cutting. In order to protect the products of their own stores, some foreign trade clothing brand companies will require collar labels to be cut off and washed before being sold before leaving the factory. Clothes with cut labels are generally out-of-season products of brand clothing. The fabrics, workmanship, and texture of the clothing are no different from real brand clothing. They are just taken out for clearance because the styles are from the previous season or the previous season. But at present, the author has discovered that there is a situation where some clothing store owners make small holes and cut small corners on clothing labels without any pain, and they call it "cutting the label goods". In fact, this is all to deceive laymen. "Gimmick". In fact, in order to ensure that the sales price of the current season's products is not affected, most manufacturers will completely remove the trademarks before disposing of them. Therefore, the "cut-labeled goods" that are really forced to be destroyed will not be merciful with the scissors. Either cut it into a crescent shape and dig out all the words on the trademark; or "uproot" the trademark, leaving only two trademark sutures faintly visible. On the contrary

I can't let you recognize it. I can't let you recognize it anyway. Of course, not all foreign trade clothing requires cutting labels. Many domestic and foreign brands belong to different companies. Foreign companies do not need to consider your domestic sales, so they will naturally not cut labels.