Counterfeit clothes could be making their way to popular retail stores in Central Florida.

Local 6 consumer reporter Steven Cooper uncovered some famous labels on the wrong clothing, and the designers had no idea.

Cooper found two identical overcoats at Burlington Coat Factory, each with different labels.

After further inspection, every minor detail on the coats, from the stitching on the lapels to the major details like the inner lining, was identical. One coat had a Perry Ellis label, the other had a Drizzle label.

No one at the Burlington Coat Factory store could provide an explanation for how it had happened. The store's corporate office said it did nothing wrong.

"Unless a design is a very well known design, we have no way of knowing who is the actual copyright owner," Burlington Coat Factory's corporate office said. "The coats were purchased from the (same) manufacturer holding the license for (BOTH) brands in question at the time of purchase. You should be able to confirm this with the parent companies that own and license the brands."

Perry Ellis' corporate office said both coats were Perry Ellis designs and that the Drizzle coat featured the design without authorization.

Perry Ellis "would never approve a design to be used with someone else's label."

This does not appear to be an isolated incident.

Cooper went to other Burling Coat Factory stores in Central Florida and found more identical coats. One was labeled Calvin Klein, the other, Ralph Lauren.

From the outer shell to the inner lining, the buttons, the quilt design and the zipper, every detail was identical on both coats.

Burlington's corporate office conceded "somehow, some way, a mistake was made," but blamed it on the manufacturer, George Weintraub and Sons.

"This is an isolated incident that has since been rectified by us. We can assure that moving forward the appropriate procedures are adgered to so our manufactured products accurately represent our business partners," the manufacturer said.

Burlington insisted it only buys from manufacturers who have the license to make a certain design.

"We buy in good faith. We don't play in the gray market," Burlington's corporate office said.

In another example, a jacket's label says Perry Ellis, but the label, which is falling off, was glued to the coat, not stitched.

Perry Ellis called the coat a counterfeit, and said it is not and never was a Perry Ellis coat.

Burlington said the coat was purchased from a Perry Ellis authorized licensee.

"If Perry Ellis is now stating this is not their merchandise, we are at a loss to explain how Perry Ellis' authorized licensees failed to supply us with Perry Ellis approved merchandise," Burlington said.

This problem extends beyond Burlington Coat Factory. There are several recent cases of designers suing manufactures and other designers over counterfeits.

The coats in question at Burlington coat Factory were all manufactured overseas.