New Arrivals

No problem. I will get some more pics tomorrow with fit after a quick soak.  Not that they need it.  I threw them on briefly and see why Old and everyone's loves these and the Super Heavys. So damn comfortable. 

One of my orders is at 12 weeks now and I have heard nothing. I can deal with waiting, trust me, I have tons of jeans and really don't need them. I have to agree with Old26, a NOOB would be freaking out.

Based on order numbers, it seems that LD has taken thousands of orders lately. I assume it's more than they anticipated and that's the reason for the delays. Hopefully in the end it will all work out, but I can totally see why people are getting a bit impatient.

I called LD today to see if I can get a status on my order, I spoke with someone and they said they would check my order and call me back. Didn't get a call back and when i called later in the day, there was no answer. I am getting a little impatient since I was hoping to have it by Thanksgiving however I am keeping a positive attitude about my shirt until i have it physically in my hand.

While I agree that, it the grander scheme of things, an additional few weeks - or even a month - on top of the originally specified delivery time doesn't actually make much difference, the point is that when a commercial business operation takes your money they essentially make a contract with you. If that contract is along the lines of 'Once you have supplied $£XXX to us immediately we will supply XXX jeans to you within XXX weeks' then it is only reasonable to expect the latter part of the deal to be upheld once the former part has been completed.

I think everyone can accept delays if there are reasons... but when you're not even given those reasons and are essentially just left waiting beyond the specified delivery time, how can you ever have any idea of when your jeans might finally arrive? For example, I'm purely guestimating that my first pair will turn up sometime in February but it could be March, or even April - based on stevekas' experience - for all I actually know, because nobody's keeping me appraised of the situation.

To be fair, I did PM Sal about the likely dispatch time and he said it's more likely 10-12 weeks at the moment. Appreciated the reply but it still took me to be proactive and to know how and where to make my enquiry, others may not.

More to the point, it's actually Lawless I'm more concerned about than myself. Even if none of my LD orders ever turn up I've lost less than £100. That's it, my sole potential loss in this scenario. Those guys could end up losing their current goodwill, support, jobs and eventually their business.

I absolutely do not need the jeans I've ordered from LD (although I do really want to see how the denim and its construction turns out) and so the actual period of waiting is largely neither here nor there - the point is that we were told 8 weeks at the point of handing our money over/striking our contract and that self-specified deadline has been missed. That is not liable to instill good feelings in customers and that's a real shame given all the good feelings that were created when LD started offering great fabric allied with (what looks like) great construction at exceptional prices.

Looking at it from a slightly different perspective, I know that one of the people I encouraged to order a pair is annoyed with the extended wait and unlikely to order from LD again. His loss? Maybe so, but it's a potential ongoing customer that has now just bought a pair of 50% off jeans and possibly may be predisposed not to particularly like those jeans whenever they do arrive due to the long period of negative connotations associated with them in his mind. No business wants that, surely?, and I don't think it's 'ranting' to point it out. The slight worry I have is that if people just say, 'It's all good, I don't mind waiting 4 months for a cool pair of jeans' then LD will see that as the acceptable norm - which I don't think would do anyone any favours.

Those sound awesome!!

Custom All Stars or what?

www.huge-world.com/articles/-/258

@untucked...details man. We need details.

edit - just scoped the link...i want those.

Check my IG for a amazing shirt for some random customer. The Kaihara light indigo is a beautiful color. I posted it made in a jean a bit agpo but in a shirt its even better. I have it being made in the Utility jacket so now I am even more excited.

http://instagram.com/p/xmm5XNtcjb

I think that's the denim I picked for my chinos. Looks nice sewed up.

Exactly what I was hoping to hear. I plan to use them as chore/field trousers, so I had my fingers crossed that they'd be reasonably stout.

I have a shirt with those and I was "this close" to doing it.  Next one.

This looks great with your boots. Great job.