Lululemon’s Too-Thin Yoga Pants Fiasco Could Cost the Company Over $20 Million
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Over the weekend overpriced yoga pants peddler Lululemon announced that it wouldn’t be able to sell[1] an entire batch of bottoms, after some manufacturing glitch made them too thin (read: see-through). It’s easy to make light of the situation, especially if you’ve ever seen anyone wearing too-thin yoga pants — also known as too-much-information yoga pants. But the Canadian athletic apparel company’s executives aren’t laughing about this one. They stand to lose a lot of money over this little incident. And the resulting yoga pants shortage? It’s going to be awful[2], people.
It’s actually already happening. Lululemon pulled the suspect batch of yoga pants over the weekend, issuing a basically hilarious press release explaining the trouble in far too technical terms. “The ingredients, weight and longevity qualities of the pants remain the same but the coverage does not, resulting in a level of sheerness in some of our women’s black Luon bottoms that falls short of our very high standards,” the company said[3], adding that “the affected items represented approximately 17% of all women’s bottoms in our stores and for the near term there will be a shortage.” Lululemon also said that it will offer refunds for anyone who bought too-thin yoga pants after March 1. Bear in mind, this is one of the largest yoga apparel makers out there, so nearly a fifth of their inventory is a lot of yoga pants.
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- ^ announced that it wouldn’t be able to sell (www.marketwatch.com)
- ^ It’s going to be awful (gawker.com)
- ^ the company said (blogs.wsj.com)
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