Oh my gosh, it's been ONE YEAR since The Willary's campaign has closed! What. A. Year. You got us started by helping us bring our Core Collection into the world and now, a year later here we are, with a new pant color, slight but solid improvements to our pant fit, and 2 new shirt styles–one with pockets and one made of cozy merino–to compliment your wardrobe!
Your initial support, words of encouragement and enthusiasm got us off to a great start. As a thank you, head to our website and use the code KSLOVE at checkout for 12% off your order (in honor of our anniversary, October 12!)
We're slowly but surely building our customer base and so many new customers say they heard about us from a friend who backed our Kickstarter campaign. Thank you everyone who helped spread the word. Now you can earn something for all that hard work! Check out our new referral discount program where you earn 10% off for every friend who purchases from the site–and your friend gets $10 off their first order!
Finally, one more treat! You've got about 9 more hours (until midnight 10/12) to enter our excellent fall cycling outfit and accessories giveaway! We joined up with some other great woman-owned, independent brands to outfit one lucky winner head to (almost) toe.
It's been a year and I'm still learning something new everyday about how to grow The Willary. Thank you for believing in us even before the dramatic learning curve of this past year! Can't wait to see what's to come, hope you'll stick around and discover it with us.
With gratitude, Debbie
Dress and Combo delivery update!
about 10 years ago
– Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 06:14:35 PM
It's basically the weekend, hooray! Just wanted to let you know the factory expects the dresses to be ready this Monday! It takes a day or two for them to arrive at our "shipping facility" (AKA our office). Assuming all goes smoothly we should start shipping out dresses and combo orders by the end of next week!
Kickstarter Combo Pants sorted and waiting for their dress!
Have a great weekend, everyone! Debbie
Shipment Update
about 10 years ago
– Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:10:09 AM
Hi Everyone!
Pants are shipping this week, in fact, the first batch goes out today! The factory finished them last week and I (luckily!) received them at the office just before the blizzard hit! Keep an eye on your email for tracking information.
This is what 200lbs of pants looks like!
This is the less awesome news: dresses are still at the factory. It's taking longer than anticipated to finish the snaps–there's only one die-press operator and over 1500 snaps to attach! After they attach the snaps the final three steps are hem finishing, quality checks and packaging. Right now the factory estimates the dresses will be done by the end of this week. On our end we're ready to ship once the products are in hand.
For all you Kickstarter combo backers I'm still planning to ship the pants and dress together, please understand this will save me a bunch on shipping and packaging costs. Thank you for your patience.
Believe me, all I want is to get these clothes to you. And it's the home stretch!! Again, dress and combo backers, THANK YOU for holding out just a bit longer.
And finally, a video–last week I got to see the first pair of pants from our production run pass inspection and be prepared for delivery. Here they are getting bagged and labeled.
So pant backers, get ready! Dress and combo backers, THANK YOU. And everyone, have an awesome week.
With Gratitude, Debbie
Pants and Dress shipping SO soon!
about 10 years ago
– Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 03:32:05 PM
Happy New Year everyone!
Great news! Just checked in with the factory and we're still on track to meet the 1/21 completion date for our pants and dresses! All the pants need are their waistbands and bar tacks.
In other news, bandanas shipped the last week of December. If you missed out on the bandana, no fear! They'll be available for purchase on the new and improved website–the making of which has been my non-stop project for the past week. Here's a sneak peek screenshot:
Fun fact: Co-Founder Chelsea Meyers made that ring!
And our shirt fabric shipped! We'll start production in the next few weeks on our awesome merino/cotton blend shirt–with pockets! The story behind the shirt is a great one, full of collaboration, friendship, experimentation and lots of trial and error! I'm working on some blog posts that take you on that journey with me.
I'll let you know when we're ready to ship!
With gratitude, Debbie
Holiday Card Insert Link
over 10 years ago
– Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:25:59 AM
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