Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.
And, remember: "In the United States, patterns are generally not eligible for copyright protection as copyright does not apply to methods or “procedures for doing, making, or building things.” Additionally, an item created from a pattern also lacks copyright protection if it is considered to be a functional object. Under the Useful Article doctrine in US copyright law, if an object has a practical or useful function, copyright protection applies only to the original, creative elements “that can be identified separately from the utilitarian aspects of an object”, but does not extend to the underlying design of the functional object."
This means that making your own copies of existing garments is perfectly legal in the US (that's also why so many "designer" items are covered with "designer" prints, because those prints can be copyright/trademark protected)
(the linked article is about what you can do with sewing patterns specifically, but the underlying "clothing designs cannot be copyrighted" point remains, and, yes, of course, I know that "legality" has its own discourse, but some people worry about what could happen if they were "caught" copying a garment design, and the answer, legally, is "nothing") (the debate about the morality of copying from small designers is a different discussion)
