There is a shop on the main street through the town selling Tommy Hilfiger polo shirts for 20 euro's. Superb value, fill yer boots.
There was a nice ice cream place on the right of the main street, outside seating with brightly coloured ****es, a bit further along was a place where you could put your feet in a glass box and get them nibbled by fish.
“ Tommy Hilfiger manufactures its apparel, footwear, and accessories in China, Vietnam, Portugal, Italy, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and Indonesia.” So, a lot of it will be made by the same underpaid people working in sweatshops where cheap, throwaway fashion is made. Just sold for fancy prices because of the label stuck on it.
Doubt very much if they are selling stolen gear, they are also selling replica football shirts for 10 euros each, and better quality than the ones in our club shop. I've got original Hilfiger polos and I've got Hilfiger polos from this shop in Skatihos, and the quality is exactly the same. Shop owner told me he sells 20 a day. Maybe he works on a lower profit margin than some? This particular shop in Skathios is on a cross roads of the main tourist street through the town and looks like an 'Aubreys' from the outside. Got the grandaughter (8) a replica England kit too, shirt, shorts and socks, 10 euros.
I didn't say they were stolen, I said they're fakes. You can't sell genuine Tommy Hilfiger for that, the wholesale cost price of their polos is more than €20.
I suspect knock off Tommy Hilfiger sold in Greece, will have been made in Greece, avoids the risk of them getting seized by customs.
You said 'knock off' which to me means stolen If they are fake then they are very good fakes. Better quality than the overpriced tat Ralf Lauren shop in McArthur Glenn in York. They certainly are an inferior quality bearing a designer label made especially for 'clearance' shops like McArthur Glenn. Spoke before about this and Ben Sherman went down the same route, same label, inferior quality. When I was selling tools anything by Stanley was top notch, whilst it was made in England, then they moved some production to Mexico, same lable, awful quality but the same price as all the Sheffield made stuff used to be.
In the garment trade, knock-off means fake. Knock-offf's can be decent quality and they're cheap, because the people producing them don't spend tens of millions on advertising and all the other things that make a brand desirable in the first place. You're right about stuff made purely for outlet businesses, the quality is often very poor (the worst I've seen when comparing their normal goods, to their outlet goods, is the Armani store in Bicester Village, just really cheap polo shirt with an Armani logo on them and still about £50). BMB in Leeds (who were Ben Sherman UK), have just lost the license and it's been given to someone else, so I expect the shop in Hull (along with all their other outlets) will close soon and the quality may improve.
My 300 lira fake city shirt from turkey is better quality than the real thing. Don’t know why anyone would bother with a genuine one for a rip off price.
If something is "knock off" I'd assume now it's a fake. First time I heard something described as "knock off" though, it was in Liverpool and it was nicked. Maybe the term changed in the last 30 years.
I would've thought 'knock off' was 'knocked off'...As in stolen, but willing to concede that it seems to be a rag trade/generational term. Fake should be 'knocked' up!!
I've always known 'knock-off' as either stolen or fake just depending on context. It's a bit like calling somebody a **** on here, (most) folk know it's meant flippantly. But if you did it on a satdee night in town to a complete stranger it'd almost certainly be taken differently
