AUTHENTICATING COH
There are a few features that can be very useful to you in your quest for real Citizens. In trying to determine authenticity though, try to look at a pair as a WHOLE, not by just 1 feature (because for instance, a fake may have a great looking tag, but not be real once other factors are taken into account). It is also helpful to look at a pair you know is REAL so your eye can be trained in what to look for. You will see some examples here, but you should also go to a retail store in your area, or visit Authenticforum to look at the photos in our extensive style guides!
WASHES
First - Citizens of Humanity is, first and foremost, a premium brand.... meaning expensive and manufactured to reflect it! That means good quality denim, beautiful pleasing looking washes, and not streaky rough garbage denim!
Notice the wash is smooth, even, and the whiskering is subtle and nice looking. The fake COH , the denim is, well, there's no other way to put it... crap! The wash is streaky, the whiskering is way too bold (like someone streaked chalk over it) and is not even and the distressing area on the knee looks like a child with a cheese grater did it.
Pocket Design
Next lets take a look at the COH signature pocket. The 'H' design should fill the pocket EVENLY and FULLY. The right pocket will feature a small cloth logo label on the right side, varying from a little less than 1/3 to about a full 1/3 of the way down the pocket edge. The tail of the H should end BELOW or actually be BENEATH the red label. NEVER ABOVE.
TAGS AND RIVETS
- Now let's look at the fine details, and the ones that are most often misunderstood around these parts. THIS IS THE DEFINITIVE truth about COH rivets. Do not follow any other eBay guides.
COH uses multiple types of rivets. There are "H" logo rivets, and there are COBRAX ORIGINAL marked rivets (we are talking about what is printed on the inside-the-jeans side of the rivets, not the outside). What Citizens does NOT use is rivets with NOTHING on the back, such as just a blank rivet with a hole in the center.
- In addition, note that the back of the front button also may have either the H or Cobrax original, and the rivets and buttons can be in ANY combination as well, meaning that the button can have an H while the rivets have Cobrax Original!
TAGS: Citizens of Humanity has 2 inner tags. A top tag with the size and a silver security strip with microprinting (it says Citizens of Humanity if you look under magnification, a few old styles do NOT yet have a security strip or have one that is slightly different. Again VERY old pairs, never more current styles), and a bottom tag with the fabric content, style info, etc. There are also 2 types of bottom tags! One is the satiny tag, and the other is a waffle texture/woven tag. Either way, the font on the tags is always the SAME. Even and CLEAR.
Fakes often have:
- Smeary/nearly illegible print
- Incorrect fonts
- "Security" strips that don't have a darn thing on them, and are just strings of metallic lameness!
Inner Tag
- The real types of tags, waffle and satin. the font is CLEAR and legible, and evenly spaced and smooth. The security strip is a thick rectangle that is well secured and has microprinting that can even be seen with the naked eye. They may say Made in
Some final notes
COH is NOT smarter than a 5th Grader! LOL - COH has been notorious for misspellings on the tag. Polyurethane may be misspelled as PolyurAthane (a mistake also seen on real Seven For All Mankind for a bit), and the underside of the tag may also have Instruction misspelled as Intruction. Way to go Jerome! tsk tsk. So yes, believe it or not, this does not indicate a fake!
Spotting fake Citizen of Humanity jeans.
Spotting fake Citizen of Humanity jeans isn't that hard if you know what to look for. Fraudulent products are design for one thing and that is to design to confuse the consumer. One of the tricks are using similar logs with the same likeness as the authentic product. The worst thing about buying these jeans on line is that the sellers can show you any picture they want in their ad, however when you get it something total fraud. That thing about over sea seller is that they make direst copies of the jeans with an official looking logos on it. Check the official tag on the inside of the jeans. It should be stained and shiny. A lot of the fake tags are rough and rigged. On the backside of the button or snap of the jeans should have original engraved in on it. Have a "a" , " c" or "h" engraved on it means it a fake, nothing else should me engraved on it? If anyone say they to then they arenot being trueful with you. One other notice features in fake Citizens Of Humanity jeans is the is the material. The material that the fake jeans are made of are of a lesser quality and feels very rough. After washing them once then become even rough like they have been starched along with pin hoe tears / micro fractures in random spots along the means. Some time after the jeans will become weak and rip between the legs at the seem.
- Inseam COH jeans are no less than 33 1/2 to 34 inches long unless professionally hemmed. If they are listed as new with a 32 inch inseam, there is a 99.9% chance these are fakes
- COH jeans always have a smooth tag not like the ones listed above. You will also see a double stiching that goes all the way around on the inside of the jeans that these fakes don't have
· Have a silver stiching below Imported Fabric at the inner tag
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