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Lululemon says in a statement it has a problem with the sheerness in the material used for a batch of its hip-hugging black Luon pants. They've pulled them from store shelves and website. (Photo courtesy Postmedia News, Canada)

Northwest company recalls yoga pants that were too sheer

March 19, 2013 @ 12:54 pm (Updated: 1:13 pm - 3/19/13 )

Lululemon Athletica, based in Vancouver, B.C., has a problem with its bottom line since having to recall a popular yoga pant that didn't cover up enough of women's bottoms.

Lululemon says in a statement it has a problem with the sheerness in the material used for a batch of its hip-hugging black Luon pants. They've pulled them from store shelves and website.

"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," they say.

Translation for the benefit of my male readers - considering women usually don't wear anything underneath their Lulu's, sheer is not exactly what we're going for with yoga pants.

You want to see a photo of these pants, don't you? Sorry, I live in Nike yoga pants when I'm not at work.

Lululemon estimated that the affected items represent approximately 17 percent of all women's yoga pant styles in its stores, which will result in a shortage of the affected styles.

That has sent the company's stock in a downward dog position.

The company lowered its expectations for the fiscal quarter. The company will unveil its fourth quarter and full-year earnings on Thursday. Lulu stock dropped 2.8 percent today.

Lululemon has six stores in Washington.

By LINDA THOMAS

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  • hpygolkyone wrote...
    Hmmmmm?............
    March 19, 2013 12:44 pm
    Being a single guy who has at least 250,000 years of craziness for girls firmly entrenched into his DNA.........

    I don't see any problem here.........

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  • maplefish wrote...
    Hpygolkyone
    March 19, 2013 12:54 pm
    Hilarious!
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  • TheNewsChick wrote...
    That....
    March 19, 2013 1:40 pm
    Made me smile :)
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  • mnpat wrote...
    I find it very hard to believe,
    March 19, 2013 1:05 pm
    That they are any more ahear than all the others, or.....that the modern day woman age 15-40 seems to be bothered showing any more than what has already been shown.
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  • couchpotatoslacker wrote...
    ......
    March 19, 2013 1:29 pm
    More Pulitzer worthy Material from Linda.
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  • TheNewsChick wrote...
    CP Slacker
    March 19, 2013 1:39 pm
    Indeed, you get what you pay for today. My family's sick, and I'm joining them. Night night.
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    So, how about...
    March 19, 2013 2:37 pm
    Hanging a few frilly bits on that batch and ship them off to a lingerie company. Yoga-Yearns, the stretchy pants that make him bend to your desires. :-)

    "sent the company's stock in a downward dog position." -lol!

    @hpygolkyone... +5 hahahaha. So true.

    Thanks for the laughs. I needed one today. Hope your family gets well soon Linda. (zinc, turmeric, coconut oil, vitamin c =kills bugs fast.)

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  • DesertRez wrote...
    Doesn't really matter
    March 19, 2013 2:44 pm
    since all my wife does is sleep in them. Call it the horizontal log position?
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  • DonVigo wrote...
    Butt (Pun intended) isn't the point...
    March 19, 2013 2:59 pm
    Of the overpriced merchandise at Luluelmon to give the illusion of being dressed although you can clearly make out the 14 year old's shape as she wears them?! Next thing someone's going to tell me yoga pants are actually meant for doing yoga in.

    I used to work at the Bellevue Square Mall, and it could just be a perception of an adult who doesn't like scantily clad children, but I swear that brand, much like it's cousin company Pink, has targeted the underage demographic in a way that proves parents are slightly too inclined to allow their little girls to run arould looking like little ladies of the night. Honestly, I'm shocked they'd bother to concern themselves with the "sheerness" of the skin-tight material they hock to the tweenaged crowd.

    On another note: Get well, Linda. Being sick is a bummer, but at least OJ and chicken noodle soup are deeeeeelicious.

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  • jpetro wrote...
    There has been
    March 19, 2013 3:10 pm
    talk at my daughters school about not allowing them (yay!) Feel better Linda, the crud is going around my house too :( Roomtemp has it right, but add apple cider vinegar too.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    So I'm not crazy after all (well, maybe not entirely and in every regard)
    March 19, 2013 3:10 pm
    I followed a pair of these pants down the sidewalk recently. I assume it must have been these pants, because they were not only skin tight but they weren't as opaque as even a typical black nylon stocking.

    I thought, "I must be seeing things!"

    Seeing things indeed. Whatever these was to see, I was getting a pretty good view.

    Don't ask me if she was a blonde, brunette, or redhead. I wasn't looking much above the waist.

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  • mnpat wrote...
    now Chuck
    March 19, 2013 3:52 pm
    We are not supposed to be looking and thinking women's bodies as sex objects, I'm sure these paint on tight clothing items featured are worn strictly for comfort and not to draw any attention. And it's probably a good thing you didn't look up because the skin tight tops are for comfort only as well.
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  • Kosh wrote...
    I dont get it?
    March 19, 2013 4:49 pm
    Most places would charge extra for this. In the real world the less it shows the more it costs so what is the problem. If they were smart marketers they would resume them and add a 20% price increase now and they would sell like hotcakes.
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  • Jeff Schroeder wrote...
    This is what "Pop Culture" concerns itself with?f
    March 19, 2013 9:08 pm
    We all F'd !!!
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