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    Heavens! Has Marc Ripped Off the Swedes?!In the fifties, in the sleepy town in northern Sweden of Härjedalen, Gosta Olofsson produced about 1,000 scarves to celebrate this fair city. The scarves portrayed a small church, wooden huts, bears, flowers, and the coat of arms of Härjedalen. Cute! Now flash-forward to spring/summer ‘08: Marc Jacobs produces remarkably similar “mountain” bandannas to, um, celebrate the sleepy northern Swedish village of Härjedalen?