Lawless Reviews

Indeed, that is a valid distinction. The workforce was top notch. I'll amend my statement to "I don't like wearing clothes produced by company owned by a person who ripped off both its loyal and talented workforce and its customers".

Yesterday I wore the one pair of jeans I eventually received. Not even sure they were made with all my selections after such a long time but when they arrived the 35x33 was spot on. They really do fit great!

That's the shame in all this.

Tea?

Tobacco spit?

Wow! And I was kidding too. You could even incorporate an orange or brown sharpie to give it more of that "copper" thread look too. Over the yellow no less. You can evolve the shirt and eventually go with dark blue or black and end up with tonal. 

do you think the color will be the same after washing?

Same with me.  I just feel fortunate that I received all my orders, which were shirts, and vest.  The coloring of the thread you did looks closer to the topaz thread I elected to get on mine.  When I wear it, it blows my mind I paid $60 bucks for it, and LD didn't even charge me shipping, LOL

Dirty_Denim, just curious - the stuff from the early days seems seems to have been good quality, then after December it started to deteriorate and eventually became a roulette spin as to fit, spec and quality.

What went wrong? Sackings? Leavings? Pressure to get stuff out regardless of QC?

Yeah that looks nothing like a Gi. More like a denim-colored cardigan, as you said.

Lawless had a bad strategy for a small start-up with limited financing, if they ever planned to honestly succeed.  They needed a bunch of interested customers and sales of products to stir up buzz, but like most small businesses they needed a lot of time and start-up cash to cover salaries, design work, equipment, etc.

Lawless solution: give out all sorts of coupons and have large discounted sales on products already priced low enough that they would be losing money on each sale.  This gets customers excited and they are willing to pre-pay months prior to product delivery because it seems like such a great deal.  Produce a small trickle of real products and deliver to continue to build customer interest and to reduce worry as customers wait many months and experience delays.

Herein lies the big problem with these online companies where customers send the money first and the product MAY arrive months later.  In a normal business there is a limit to how much more a company can promise than it delivers because customers don't pay until the product is received, so the company must have already spent the money to create the product and the customer isn't at risk.  In this case, the customer is trusting the company to honestly spend their pre-paid funds to build their product.

But there is no requirement for the company to do so!  Your money goes into company funds to pay whatever bills they have and you get a company backed promise to someday deliver the product, assuming they are not bankrupt prior to delivery.

In the case of Lawless, I'm sure they were spending all the inflowing money as quickly as it arrived on salary and who knows what.  When the bank account got low, they had another sale.  Out of money again, post an online coupon.

But all those products were promised to be delivered at below cost and the customer's money was gone long before the materials were purchased or designs completed, so there was no way for them to ever dig out.  I doubt they really intended to.  It had to be obvious from early on to anyone who saw the finances that they were spending the customers money without making progress toward delivering the product and that it couldn't continue for long.

Did they ever fulfill the Huckberry deal? And did that deal tap out their fabric intended for our orders?

I actually stumbled on a post on another forum from a Huckberry customer who got the wrong size and was never sent out a new pair.