Latest responses to “Knock-Offs: How to Spot a Fake Lacoste and Other Imitation Clothing” Copyright 2012, MoneyBlueBook.com 433550 2010-12-12T03:28:19-08:00 Fvck Required The "author" of this article must own stock in Lacoste. Only a status seeking zombie would pay anywhere near $60-75 bucks for a polo shirt. Thats ridiculous! And fvck perl buttons. These shirts don't cost anywhere near that much too manufacture. Brand names like Lacoste prey on social seeking nutballs who will pay anything to "fit in". The value is all in the PERCEPTION of the product not the product itself (in this case). $70 knit shirts are for suckers! I wish China made knock offs back in the 80s when my poor grandmother spent her whole fvkcin pay check on a couple of these overpriced washrags for me to go to school in. Most of the knock offs have the real little alligator and thats all that matters. 99.99% of people out there will never know the difference and the knock offs are not as shoddy as the author makes it seem. So whos the sucker? Forget these pompus douchebags and go buy yourself 3 or 4 knock offs for the same price you'll pay for a "real" one. Most of them WILL last if you take care of them and wash them right. Put money in the little guys pocket and stop making rich assholes richer. If not, keep having your thoughts emailed to you, suckers... 433520 2010-11-24T15:24:00-08:00 Gelacio Carrera great tips.. i have seen so many fakes and nothing like the real thing. got the lacoste polo matching with the glasses... i am aware i got the real and hate those wearing the fake. 433580 2010-11-05T14:57:08-07:00 CJ Some of this isn't necessarily true though. I have a few of these shirts from Nordstrom (so definitely genuine) and they can be a very cheap quality. Most of them had stitching coming out after the first wash and they are never soft, always scratchy no matter how or what I use to wash them. I would compare the quality to something you could buy at Wal-Mart. I know this is an article on how to spot a fake but it would be very hard to do so in reality. 433300 2010-10-22T17:11:59-07:00 creen if the polo shirt has three buttons where the right position of the croc to say it is fake or real? 433570 2010-10-18T15:30:10-07:00 Saiko The Lacoste shirts that have a gator the same color as the shirt are from the 'vintage' line of shirts. They are 100% legit. I've bought many a fake and real Lacoste shirts, and as someone has already said, if the quality of the 'fake' is A+++, then you cannot tell a difference. They are the same shirt, minus the hit your wallet takes. I outsourced a few different companies in China to find the best manufacturer, then continued to order from them. Typically, they'll take test orders of only 2-3 shirts so you can see what the quality is like. Some of the shirts fell apart before I wore them, some are still in my closet from 4+ years ago. It's pretty much chance as to what kind of quality you'll get. In some instances, I like the fake ones since they're much longer than legit Lacoste shirts. I find that the 'real' shirts often shrink way too much if you accidentally toss them in the dryers v. line drying them. 433560 2010-09-28T10:21:41-07:00 frankie Just to say i have got a new one of ebay.co.uk for ��18 and i have done all the checks and it is defo real :) so just so people know there are bargains out there :D 433540 2010-09-12T16:43:11-07:00 rona0213 I bought all my Lacoste shirts from lacoste premium outlet store. Not all Lacoste shirt have mother of pearl buttons and the croc logo differ in size depending on design. Classic pique have 2 mother of pearl buttons. Stripes design lacoste shirts have different kind of buttons, the croc logo is a little bit smaller than of the classic pique. There are also Andy Rodick editions with big croc logo on them. The real lacoste you can feel it right away by the quality of wormanship and fabric. Knock off nowadays are getting better, the fabric and and workmanship are of good quality for a fraction of the cost. For those who can't afford to buy authentic high quality replica would be a good option afterall no ones gonna touch nor look closely nor investigate the shirt you are wearing. 433410 2010-08-30T16:36:42-07:00 cory lol poor people are too funny good guide too i'll just stick to the lacoste outlet store nearby 433400 2010-08-16T20:27:02-07:00 ravens Guys guys for your info, In peru you cannot go to outlets or the showroom of Lacoste. Unless you are buying quantities and know somebody there, Devanlay even with a wad full of money they will say no, that i have seen say no to people trying to buy from them 60k pieces. They dont care, they wont sell to anybody out there, so when they are saying outlets from Peru. fake fake fake 433360 2010-07-22T00:18:07-07:00 T. Jackson No 1. When did you go to school in Baltimore? I was born & raised here and I've never seen street vendres selling anything downtown they way you're describing. The only venders I've ever seen are the ones permitted to sell Orioles & Ravens merchandise No. 2. Where are you from, just because you had a bad experience here doesn't give you the right to talk down Baltimore like we're the scum of the earth, not everyone here are criminals or thugs. I'll bet you I could come to your city and find crime there also. No. 3. Lacoste does have a factory discount outlet. My wife is from The Hamptons and about ten miles from her parents home in a town called Riverhead NY they hsve an outlet mall called The Tangers Outlet, where guess what there is big as day a Lacoste Factory Discount Store where I just purchased ten shirts at a cheaper price than at Neiman Marcus