Talk about a cheap trick.
A Garment District swimwear distributor, whose clients include Target, is suing a manufacturing company for allegedly supplying $260,000 of defective, purple lace.
Joe Heaven, of Sunshine Trading, allegedly sold 4,945 yards of died lace to A.H. Schreiber Co., another midtown operation, in July 2012, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit claims.
“Heaven agreed to provide defect free first quality lace to be used in the swimwear that was to be sold by Schreiber to Target,” court papers report.
A Korean company was then contracted to sew the lace onto bathing suits. About six months later “Schreiber discovered that Heaven’s Lace used in the swimwear was defective,” the documents charge, adding that it “bled the color purple onto the body of the swimwear, thereby making the swimwear unmerchantable.”
Schreiber is suing for the cost of the lace plus additional damages.
Sunshine Trading did not return calls for comment.