Lady K Loves Pin Up Pop Up Shop in Bricklane London

Lady K Loves is excited to announce a very special project coming soon to the heart of the East End of London, Pin Up Pop Up.

Combining forces with Love Ur Look, Silly Old Sea Dog, 20th Century Cloth and Inna Box, Pin Up Pop Up will be filled to the brim with great UK based pin up fashion brands. Not only will you be able to shop to get your perfect outfit,  Lady Jane Vintage will also be on hand from 10^th – 13^th creating fabulous vintage inspired looks with her expert makeup and hair styling, making sure you can leave looking exquisite from head to toe.

Lady K Loves will have all of their styles in store, giving you the perfect chance to try on all of the delicious items you’ve been drooling over on our website. We’ll be on hand to offer you the best advice on our jeans too, helping you get the ultimate in high waisted slim leg jeans.

Filling shop No 7 in Dray Walk, Old Truman Brewery, just off the independent shopping mecca Bricklane, the fun starts on the Friday 10th June. Come and be treated to exclusive previews of each brands designs, goodie bags stuffed with exciting treats and gift vouchers.

Can’t make the launch night? We’ll be serving up our best all weekend from 11^th – 14^th June so there’s no need to miss out!

Launch Party 10th June 4pm - 10:00pm drinks and discounts

11^th June 10:00 - 9:00 pm

12^th June 12:00 - 5:00 pm

13^th June 10:30 - 5:00 pm

14^th June 10:30 – 6:00 pm

Dray Walk SHOP 7, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London E1 6QL

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Measuring Yourself For Our Jeans

Do you know the most asked question we get at LKL HQ?

'I'd totally in love with your Hug Me Baby jeans, but I'm in between sizes, what should I do?'

Well, fear not, we're here to help, just drop us an email at sales@lady-k-loves.com and we'll help you work it out.

But if you're feeling a bit more adventurous and want to try working it out yourself, here's out how to guide.

Firstly grab your self a tape measure, and remember this, clothes sizes have changed to reflect our bodies changing (for the most part growing) over the years, the only thing that is a true reflection of you, is your reflection. Don't worry about the label. Worry about if you feel and look good. Yeah? Yeah.

So, now you're armed with a tape measure and a sense of reassurance that you're beautiful and people love you. Measure around your natural waist first of all. For most of us this is a couple of inches higher than your belly button. Jot this number down, we're based in the UK so our sizing is in inches. You can convert cm to inches here

Now measure around 6" lower than your waist line to get your hip measurement. Jot this down too.

The way it works is this,

our Classics are cut for a difference of around 10". This is the 'average' hip to waist difference and work for most people. If you're more like 8" difference, go for the smaller size. 

Hug Me Baby's are cut for girls with 12"+ difference between their hips and their waist. For the most part, you KNOW if you're this body shape. you can NEVER get anything to fit,  your waist is tiny, your hips/ass is pretty full. Years of frustration....I kinda can't reinforce this enough, they look so much better on girls who have 12"PLUS difference between their hips and waist, so waist 26", hips 39"

Le Wild, well.....let live up to their name and are a total wild card. With a straight leg, and a side zip, they fit an assortment of body shapes. basically if you love them, unless you have a crazy hip to waist ratio, they should fit you and look great! I've seen girls with only 6" - 8" difference rock these, all the way up to 12" so for the most part you can too.

LKLx

Our first trip to India.

Some of you will know we recently went to India to go and visit a new factory and set up production over there. It’s a really exciting opportunity to work with a lovely fair trade factory, which puts a whole lot more than simply employing women who normally wouldn’t be employed in India, back into the community. We’re going to tell you more about them later down in the line in another video. This is more of a general experience video…which mostly involved driving around town in tuktuk’s and rickshaws and freaking the ruck out until we got to grips with the way traffic works in India.
Essentially, you can take everything you learnt about driving in the West and flip it! You know how when you approach a round-about you give way to traffic already on the round-about? No, that’s not how it works in India……it’s the car’s coming towards you responsibility NOT TO HIT YOU……What?!? There were times when we came out of a junction into oncoming traffic. And this was normal. Driving past bikes and scooters with not just someone on the back, whole families with small children (babies) squeezed in. Again. Normal. To cross the road, you just walk slowly, with purpose and the cars drive around you! Apparently this is in part due to the idea that you have a day to die, and when that day comes, it’s your day. So what you do in the lead up to that day sort of doesn’t matter.

During the trip we went to areas of Delhi that aren’t on the tourist trail, so we were a real sideshow, western, white, and bleach blonde. Not to mention reasonably tall. Staring isn’t considered rude over there, so no one felt the need to hide their curiosity, or taking pictures of us.

But that said, we did our fair share of staring. It was amazing seeing 5 people wedged onto a bike, watching someone cycle and deliver huge parcels of newly made clothing across town on their rickshaw, driving around with no seatbelt thinking we might just die.

Here’s an overexcited video of what we got up to and some pictures of the weird and wild things we saw.

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 Crazy traffic which makes no sense yet sort of does by the end of your time there.

 Beautiful details on the architecture

 Outside our hotel on the main bazaar, all lit up and making me thing of Vegas

 Yep, that is laundry drying by the side of the road, loads of towels, from a hotel, probably washed in the river, which is super dirty and full of sewage. We prayed it wasn't our hotels towels.

 Delhi is dusty, and smoggy but there's some really lovely bits, despite being so crowed and hectic, there's something so free about it.

A little update....where we've been and where we're going.

There’s been a lot going on behind the scenes at LKL over the past few months, it’s affected a few things, including your orders, so we wanted to make sure that you all knew what had been going on and had an idea of what was to come and what we’re working on.

We had a lovely little boutique in the heart of Bristol, which we sadly had to shut at the end of November. We’re a much stronger brand online and the boutique was sadly quite restrictive on what we could do with our time. Now we’re back to being based in a studio we have a lot more time to get back to what we love doing, designing great clothes.

As we were shutting the shop and moving to the studio, our restock on our jeans was late. This was due to an issue in our supply chain which we now understand and have made sure we work around and allow time to stop there being a negative impact on deliveries.

Then it was Christmas.

And then…..we went to India!

You see, previously all of Lady K Loves clothing has been made in the UK. We felt really passionately that the quality and ethics were easier to manage producing in the same country as us. However we came across an option to work with a fair trade factory in India, which had been visited and vetted by a trusted friend. So we went over to check it out. In the two weeks we were there, we visited fabric suppliers, sourced some wonderful fabrics and prints, visited the factory, had samples made and fell in love with the wonderful kind people who worked there. The factory is very nice, we’ll be more tell you more about it soon, but rest assured we’re more than satisfied with the conditions the staff there work in. 

We also snuck a couple of days off in this beautiful beach in Goa, for a much overdue break. 

While we were there, we discovered that the internet connection out there is not what we’re used to in the UK. We had so many issues trying to be contactable and getting to our emails, so, we’re making sure that we take on a member of staff to train them up and make sure that the level of customer service you get is consistent. This is really important as we know how hard it can be buying online and we want to make it was easy as possible.

We’ve also kicked off a restock of our sold out sizes of Classic and Hug Me Baby jeans which are ready to order now with and ETA of 7^th March. We have confirmation that the fabric is at the factory and production has started so this date shouldn’t slip.

Other than that, we can’t wait to show you all of the wonderful things that will be in stock soon. LKLx

Stagfest March 2015

YouTube Channel

We're diving in to the depths of YouTube!

We're really excited about this,it's going to be fantastic to be able to share with you what we get up to, projects we're working on, the fun things we do and be able to help you in a similar way to how we help customers in store. We have some great guest spots coming up, how to's on hair and make up, ways to get the look and finish off your vintage style.

So......take a look below and give us a subscribe.

LKLx

Unique style

We get asked from time to time if we will be restocking item X, and sadly for a lot of you the answer is......we probably won’t be, at least not for a good while. 

But there's a reason for this. Lady K Loves isn't mass produced, and we want you to keep feeling and looking special and unique. As avid fans of eclectic dressing ourselves, we tend to combine Lady K Loves vintage inspired styles, with original vintage, high street and designer items to make sure we don't turn up to the party in just the same outfit as someone else. 

As a result of this, Lady K Loves produces stock in one off runs, so colour ways aren’t restocked past our initial allowance of fabric. For items such as the jeans, trousers, pencil skirts etc we’ll always run a black colour way and keep restocking this periodically. But for the most part we don’t restock sold out colour ways. This means you know when you buy a Lady K Loves item you’re one of the few people who own it, helping to keep your style unique.