A specter is haunting Lululemon consumers—the specter of tiny leggings. Not less than that’s what a number of the model’s grownup clients appear to consider. A thread on the r/lululemon subreddit from March, bluntly titled “Has their clothes reduced in size or am I simply getting fatter lol,” garnered lots of of feedback from folks satisfied that one thing concerning the clothes has modified.
“Boy am I relieved to see it’s not simply me that observed this!” one Redditor wrote in response. “I’ve been shopping for a 4 in Aligns and 6 in bras/tanks without end. Now I’m a 6 in Aligns and an 8 or 10 in bras and tanks. The Align shorts simply don’t match the identical anymore even after they’re not double lined. They needed to have modified the material or one thing.”
“Not simply you!!!!!” one other mentioned. “It’s severely messing with my head. That is relieving to learn. I’ve misplaced a good quantity of weight and figured I used to be able to measurement down in Wunder Trains since mine are falling down on me. Nope.”
Others chimed in that though they’d stayed the identical measurement in different clothes, remained the identical weight, and even gone down in common pants sizes, the quantity on their Lululemon clothes continued to rise.
One girl who responded to the Reddit thread, Stella, tells SELF she’s been purchasing at Lululemon since she was 13 years outdated. Now 28, she says she owns round 35 articles of Lulu clothes, largely leggings, tops, and shorts—however mentioned she observed a change within the model’s clothes over the previous 6 to 10 years, with a good larger shift since 2020. “I discover the sizing discrepancies proper now are main between totally different legging fashions,” she says. “A 6 in Align may very well be a 14 in one other legging. The disparity makes me really feel annoyed—it’s a lot tougher to buy at Lululemon now than it was earlier than the pandemic.”
Maddie Ball, a 29-year-old dwelling in San Francisco, tells SELF one other sizing subject confirmed up for her in a good much less predictable approach when she tried to resell a pair of the Wunder Below high-rise leggings on Poshmark in September 2023. “The customer thought they have been pretend,” she tells SELF.
I reviewed screenshots of the sad buyer’s criticism, and…whew: “These ‘measurement 6’ leggings is not going to even go previous my knee they’re so small,” the particular person wrote. “Additionally as you may see within the image the feel of the leggings is grainy, I’ve a pair of measurement 6 Lululemon leggings that I purchased from Lululemon which is made out of buttery comfortable supplies with no texture.” Ball says she suspects the leggings her dissatisfied purchaser owned have been from a special line of Lulu clothes than those she was promoting. Nonetheless, she says she in the end canceled the transaction as a result of, in equity, “this pair did appear particularly small.”
On that observe, Stella additionally says she feels that the standard of Lulu’s activewear has modified for the more serious. “I personal shorts, tops, leggings, headbands, purses, yoga mats, a number of different forms of equipment, and I really feel the standard for the clothes items themselves, particularly the leggings, has modified to the acute,” she says. “My first pair of leggings, bought over 15 years in the past, are nonetheless in mint situation with nothing mistaken with them regardless of YEARS of use. Lulu lately merely can’t examine.”