I agree with your comments.
Typically clothes like this are provided gratis by the designers to get publicity.
I know this will be difficult for a lot of FReepers to believe, but on the site for 20-somethings that I troll undercover, MooseChelle is still quite admired.
Most 20-somethings are still wet behind the ears, and only worried about where their next piece of a$$ is coming from. I know...I was 20-something at one point in my life.