Palace Clothing: How to Spot the Real from the Rubbish

Worn by millennials and millionaires alike, Palace is a skateboarding brand gone mad. You can’t walk through Brick Lane or watch any popular Snapchat story without seeing the famed Palace logo. It’s no wonder there is an ever-growing market of fake Palace goods. But with some help from Felix Magazine there are a few clever tricks that will allow you to tell the fakes from the authentic.

One of the main flaws in fake Palace clothing is the brand’s label, which is known as “Tri-ferg”. The logo on the front of these logo tees will vary in size and place on the shirt. The biggest giveaway is the colour, print quality, and text font. Legitimate tees, hoodies, jackets and sweatshirts all follow a strict design rule and no genuine Palace will have variations of text in the same collection. For example, “Tri-ferg” T-shirts will all have the same text and the “Basically” tees will have uniform text throughout those specific collections. Fake Palace tees will have very varied text compared to legitimate ones.

If you’re unsure it’s best to have a look at the genuine website and compare the text’s font and size. The examples below are a good example of the slight design differences between a real Palace t-shirt and a fake one. The brighter image is the real deal. At a quick glance the shirts look pretty much identical but at closer inspection the text is considerably different. The real Palace tee has bolder text while the fake’s text is more angular.

 

Additionally, the variation in the “Tri-ferg” is an obvious giveaway of a real or fake Palace T-shirt. On some genuine tees, the “L” and the “A” of the main logo will touch but some will not. For example, on the legitimate “Payne” long-sleeved T-shirt the lettering within the “Tri-ferg” does not touch but on a fake “Payne” virtually all the letters are touching. These slight variations are the key to understanding if a Palace tee or sweatshirt is real or fake.

While Palace does alternate whether some of the letters touch, collection pieces won’t have variation, unlike illegitimate ones. The internet is awash with fake clothing, and another good way of sorting the real from the rubbish is to check the price. The average price of a Palace T-shirt in the UK is considerably higher than the price of almost all the tees selling online.

To quote the brand itself “Dear valued customers, if it’s on eBay for a tenner and getting shipped from China it’s defo fake, you penis. Safe Palace”. Palace is an expensive and very in-demand brand, so if you’re browsing jackets or T-shirts for £15 they almost definitely aren’t real. There are vendors selling legitimate pieces online and if you’re unsure it’s best to compare the garment’s picture to a genuine Palace image from the official website.

Although Palace clothing sells out very quickly, there are a few places you can look to find authentic garments. Obviously, the first place to go is Palace’s own website but there are a few others.

Note, Slam City Skates and Native Skate Store all sell legitimate Palace. There are also websites to absolutely avoid if you’re looking to buy genuine. Ali Express, Rebubble and ioffer are all well-known websites that sell vast quantities of fake Palace clothing. Palace is a lifestyle and it can’t be replicated by online fakes.  By Ella Neish

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