all clothes are cleaned and/or repaired if necessary before being returned...
**they probably laid something under the coat to protect it which you can't see in the photo...
but the samples are usually pretty wrecked by the end of the season...

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they are part of the advertising budget for a company...it's a write off for them...
the trouble is if you lose something...(which happens)...then you have to pay for it...
well...the magazine does...