Thanks to June’s Saturday post on Braless in Brasil, I’ve found two new “curve friendly” clothing lines. Unfortunately, my initial excitement for the German brand Maximila changed to dismay when I visited the company’s website.  Below is their Penelope dress. Do you understand my consternation?
How about if I place a photo of the Penelope dress next to the Carissa Rose Lola dress?
Or the Maximila Artemis blouse (on the right) next to the Carissa Rose Nora tunic?
 
Seriously, Maximila? When I hear that a new clothing line for full-busted women has just launched, I want to find that I have more options, not simply more of the same.
Competition is a good thing. Full-busted women everywhere benefit when companies try to outdo each other in meeting our needs. But we have so many clothing needs that are still unmet that it’s a waste of resources to duplicate each other.
Perhaps Maximila’s goal is simply to save full-busted women in Germany the hassle of ordering from England, Poland and the United States. Perhaps Maximila just loved Carissa’s designs so much that they had to make them their own–I admit that I like the buttons they’ve added to their version of the Justina dress.
I’m looking forward to new full-busted clothing lines that will ADD to our options, which is one reason I’m excited about the blogger from Poland that June mentioned. Will she really do jackets for us? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
What else would you like to see from new full-busted clothing designers?
It’s interesting how similar the looks are. Any differences in quality, fabric or price? I think the dress is stunning.
I haven’t ordered them to know about quality and fabric. The Lola is one of Carissa’s bestsellers, so it makes sense that this is the dress they would copy to reduce the risk of a design being unsuccessful.
Is it just me, or do the shirt and the dress from Maximila look shorter than the shirt and dress from Carissa Rose? My experience with Carissa Rose has been that they are not at all well proportioned for petite women.
They say “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery . . . “
But they say “copyright” too.
And honestly, I’m sort of worried about copyright issues here.
This is not the only company that Maximila stole the designs from (let’s call things what they really are) – you can also find copies of Bravissimo’s dress and some things from Polish BiuBiu. In case of BiuBiu I think some legal action has taken place.
Wow. Thanks for letting us know, MSzn. It’s helpful that our community is small enough that we can learn about these things from each other. I thought that because Maximila credits BiuBiu on their website, Biubiu must have given them permission.
I’m happy that you mentioned my blog – thanks! 🙂
I wish to have jackets in my offer. Maybe not in first year, because they are quite expensive in production, but in second year… It’s more than possible 😉