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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Bend Over and We'll Give You A Refund? WTH?!?
Posted on the lululemon Facebook page today:
Photos of the Latest
Very Green Scuba Stretch and Out and About Pants.
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Shown with Very Green Pace Setters |
Turn It Up LS and SS tops.
Out and About Pants
Very Green Pace Crops
Tame Me Tank and Stash and Dash Pullover Photos
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Shown with a Free to Be bra |
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Shown with Pace crops |
Faded Zap, Fresh Teal, and Pop Orange Tame Me Tanks. I read a fit review that says this fits the same as last year's version.
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Shown with Pace Tights |
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Shown with Work It Out Pants |
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Shown with Inspire Crops |
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Shown with Very Green Pace crops |
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Also shown is the Petite Dot Groovy Run Shorts |
Stash and Dash Pullover photos. It looks cute but I wish it was $60 cheaper.
New Men's Stuff - Faded Zap Pace Breaker Shorts and More
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Ignore the hideous Tidal Pullover on the right |
I thought these were boxers when I saw them come up in my newsfeed but they are actually another pair of Pace Breaker run shorts. The official name is Sun Spot Inkwell.
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Shown with the new Impact shorts |
The Tidal Pullover is the male version of the Stash and Dash Pullover. It's not bad in solid black. The spotted version shown above is not as nice.
French terry Dispatch hoodie and Kahuna Shorts.
Faded Zap Focus Half Zip and Metal Tech Vent SS shown with Agility pants.
Mission Pant IIs in Mojave Tan. I wish my husband would try these on but I think they are kind of pricey for him.
Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming - The Flow N Go Tank Has Hit the Stores
Can Christine Day Be Replaced Already?
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Today's Wall Street Journal (Thanks to Ms. M for the photo.) |
The fabric manufacturer has fired back, replying that they made the fabric to lululemon's specifications.
"The Taiwanese supplier behind the see-through yoga pants recalled by Lululemon Athletica Inc said on Tuesday it followed design specifications and the Canadian retailer had merely misjudged customer tastes."
"Eclat Textile Co Ltd, a supplier for Lululemon for more than 10 years [emphasis mine], told Reuters that "a gap between Lululemon's expectations and reaction from the market" was the cause of the problem."
"With the black Luon pant recall Lulu has now had its fourth quality control issue in the last year," Credit Suisse analyst Christian Buss said in a note to clients. "We see some potential that Lulu risks alienating its core customer base should quality control issues persist."
Excellent point, Mr. Buss - that's right, the fourth quality control issue that has surfaced in the past year. However, long time fans of lululemon know the slide started when the company went public and Day was brought on board. Changes in the fabric started shortly after, maybe about 2010-ish and really accelerated through 2011 and 2012. Once Chip left in January 2012 the slide to mediocrity accelerated. Designs have been genericized and most new products have all the charm and appeal of a big-box store product. The special omega logo has been removed or minimized to the point that you can't tell you've bought a lululemon product. Inferior, thin luon is being used in more and more designs (looking at you Forme and Daily Yoga jackets). Tops have been shortened (Swiftly tank). The famous camel-toe proof gusset design is long gone.
Day has ruined everything special about lululemon. The bullet proof quality, the fit, the femininity, the lululemoness of the product. She changed beloved, best-selling designs such as the Scuba hoodie, Power Y, Scoop Neck tank, Swiftly tanks, to name a few. Gussets on pants got changed from a diamond shape to a cheaper-to-manufacture diamond. Tops have been shortened.
She is a one-trick pony who grew the company through expansion. (I've heard that isn't going so well and that stores placed too close to each other are cannibalizing each other's sales.) I'll give her minor props for getting a website up and going but that's it.
It's time to bring in a new CEO, with a commitment to quality, who has experience in the apparel industry and an eye for style.
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