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Adventures in Copyright Nov 30, 2007 @ 11:22am

Adventures in Copyrights: The Bust of Times

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We felt insanely cool for scoring a Proenza Schouler corset at a thrift shop this summer, but apparently, we weren’t that special:

Forever 21 also scored a Proenza Schouler corset, just like the ones Jack and Lazaro made for Target in February. They switched a color from white to black, added a little more room in the cups, and turned up the shine factor on the fabric so it went from Cavalli-shiny to Cavalli-for-H&M shiny.

Then they priced it at $22.80 - a whopping $10 lower than Proenza’s price at Target - and rolled it out onto their floor.

It’s a serious case of fashion deja vu, but if Forever 21 was going to knock off Proenza, we wish they’d been a little more literal - that black-and-purple color story zooms us straight back to Shira: Princess of Power.

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posted by jesspgh

Nov 30, 2007 11:34AM

She-Ra was my favorite growing up.

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posted by glamabella

Nov 30, 2007 12:38PM

I think this is the best example of "Adventures in Copyrights" yet. Especially since the Target version was inexpensive to begin with.

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posted by guest

Nov 30, 2007 12:50PM

She-Ra was great. It was a spin off of He-man. But she wore more a tunic no?

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posted by FWD

Nov 30, 2007 1:07PM

She-Ra herself wore a white and gold armored bustier with a little skirt and a red cape. But now I can't look at that purple/light purple one in the middle without seeing Princess Glimmer, She-Ra's airhead friend.

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posted by NatalieJames

Nov 30, 2007 1:39PM

Adventures in Copyrights is one of my favorite reads and this one is tops!

But I would like to mention that when you spend $190 for an item, you are definitely not at a thrift shop.

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posted by guest

Nov 30, 2007 1:50PM

Thought I'd add that I went to F21 two days ago and they had an all red version too

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posted by hellonheels

Nov 30, 2007 1:59PM

Did Proenza Schouler show a corset exactly like this in their regular collection at one point? Because, curiously enough, I bought a corset EXACTLY like this through the Victoria's Secret clothing catalog about six months before PS debuted at Target. The color was called "curry," sort of a rich golden bronze, with chocolate brown trim. The only difference was that the cups were the same color as the bodice. Of course, it was long enough ago that I can't find a picture of it anywhere on the internet, but I wear it out all the time and I swear the thing is identical.

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posted by guest

Nov 30, 2007 2:53PM

Proenza has been recyling the same damn corset tops with variations in detail since their senior thesis collection!

Also, Glimmer was not an airhead - she was just misunderstood! And the only She-Ra character that wore black was Catra, the meowing villainess.

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posted by hannah

Nov 30, 2007 5:28PM

Is it wrong that I kind of want it? I mean, I missed out on the Proenza... but still, it probably looks really cheap in person and chances are it wouldn't fit me at all.

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posted by guest

Nov 30, 2007 9:19PM

She-Ra. Please fix it. Please. There is no point in making an 80's pop culture reference if you don't spell it right. It makes me think you don't actually remember it.

Also the two Proenza corsets are way more cartoonish (if much better made) than the knock off. Teal or lilac booby circles? Pass.

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