Sent in by reader Moye:
We know the Marc by Marc dress at left would be difficult for pretty much anyone to wear.
But the Mod Cloth rip-off to the right? Impossible for everyone.
The even more impossible part is that it’s $75, considerably more than the Forever 21 send-up from a couple months ago (though yes, so much cheaper than the original Marc by Marc).
But we’re wondering - who would wear a knock-off of an already unsightly dress?
And why are people still knocking it off?
We anticipate some hate comments on this one, but we actually like the dress at right from Forever 21.
It’s clearly a send-up of the Marc by Marc Jacobs dress at left, but sadly that dress is not for everybody - in fact, quite literally, it’s not for every body.
Stick thin girls will look great in it, and so will really curvy bombshells - think Top Model Whitney, Raven Simone, and Jurnee Smollett, who was so good on Grey’s Anatomy last week, we totally cried.
But if you’re short or just have a short torso, that dress may not be such a great idea - the bow at the top is a little overwhelming if the space from your boobs to your hips is just a few inches.
The Forever 21 dress has a great drop waist, which can help elongate your body, and also make you feel a little taller. It’s $24.50, which is great, and it seems far enough away from the Marc version to be it’s own dress… which is even greater.
Last week, we busted Target for blatantly mimicking one of Diane von Furstenberg’s best known patterns (and on a wrap dress, for shame.)
Now, Business Week reports that Diane von Furstenberg herself is suing Target for the copyright infringement, charging that Target’s copies “nearly identically copy the scale, pattern and colorways of DVF’s Spotted Frog Design,” and that the shape of the copies are purposefully ” ‘wrap’ dresses made of materials designed to look like silk jersey, a style consumers and the general public have come to associate with DVF.”
We guess Target’s designers don’t have any friends at Forever 21. At least they could have given them the warning:
The inimitable DVF does not mess around.