Sportsgirl Stealing Designs or about to sell Threadless?
Sportsgirl is a huge clothing chain in Australia. Threadless is a huge online clothing store who I love to buy shirts off (and have them shipped to oz). Doc mentioned to me that Sportsgirl have a sticker on their front windows at the moment that features two kissing birds very similar to that on threadless.
Checking out the sportsgirl website, there is only two possibilities.
a) Sportsgirl is about to start selling threadless clothing.
b) Sportsgirl have been stealing designs.
The colours are almost identical (within one hex value on a few), the shape is very similar, the pose identical. I suspect in the storefront version the wing decoration could also be the same. The image I have below was is a zoomed in copy of an image less then fifty by fifty pixels.
Thoughts? Anyone want to get me a picture of a store?
The shirt on Threadless
A screen dump of a flash animation on the sportsgirl website
axa said,
August 18, 2006 at 7:21 pm
i was walking past the store in queen street today, u can see the birds in there from outside, they’re like cardboard cutouts or something
sarah said,
September 20, 2006 at 1:46 am
maybe the person who designed the threadless shirt stole it from the sportsgirl shirt…
em said,
January 9, 2007 at 10:42 pm
LAWL!!!
Without sounding pretentious, threadless is a site that thrives on offering t-shirt designs that are individual and usually very left of mainstream… i hihgly doubt they would steal any designs from a tryhard-”stylish” (and i use the term VERY loosley) clone factory such as sportsgirl…
clearly the sprtsgirl douche’s have ripped off threadless which really pisses me off seeing as though im a loyal member and customer…
they have started doing cheap shitty reproductions of threadless shirts at market stalls and stores such as episode too… which is kind of amusing seeing as though if you buy a genuine threadless during a sale AND
em said,
January 9, 2007 at 10:43 pm
(coment cont’d)
… AND add the shipping to Aus costs, it costs less than buying a shit version!!!! and it costs aout the same in a non sale..
im sure no one will read this but i have vented my anger.
night.
lara said,
May 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm
can i say i think you need to calm the hell down
i do fashion at the moment and every disigner copies each other
like fashion just repeats it self
and personal i hope they dont shut down sports girl cause that what was the word you used “tryhard-”stylish” is making a f**k load of money proberly more then you could dream to ever make
so get over it :)
xx