Comments on: Love for Land’s End

By: kateharding

kateharding — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:07:25 +0000

Come on, let’s keep it real, Kate – if you had Land’s End’s babies you would just end up frying ‘em up into donuts like ten minutes later.

Sass, that’s the point! ;)

By: Alicia

Alicia — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:47:22 +0000

I want to give big love to the LE swim suits. Kinda pricy, however, OH MY GOD worth it. I hadn’t been to a beach or been in a swim suit in like, 10 years. Went to the beach this summer and felt pretty! and had a blast. and learned to boogie board. and went into the water past my ankles, which is actually a huge fear of mine. ok, the swim suit didn’t really help with that, however, my boobs did stay in the suit while boogie boarding, and that was all in the suit, cause those bad boys wanted OUT.

By: Sass

Sass — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:38:26 +0000

Come on, let’s keep it real, Kate – if you had Land’s End’s babies you would just end up frying ‘em up into donuts like ten minutes later. No more false platitudes. It’s the high holy days of commercialized love – you have to mean it.

By: Ottermatic

Ottermatic — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:15:30 +0000

I was not prepared to move to Dodgeville, WI.

My husband and I honeymooned in Dodgeville. You made the right choice.

By: kira

kira — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:12:03 +0000

Julia, check out their overstocks. I just got a really cute swimsuit at Lands’ End [that apostrophe just . ain't . right.] for less than half of the original price.

Ladyjaye, Mountain Equipment Co-op (there’s a store in Montreal) totally rocks for outdoor equipment and clothing, and they have at least some items up to size XXL (20-22).

By: kateharding

kateharding — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:08:56 +0000

LOVE their swimsuits.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:05:12 +0000

I’ve never bought anything from Land’s End, but I’ve been checking out their website with a lot of interest lately. My husband and I are going to a wedding in Aruba in August, so I’ll need a swimsuit. (I technically already have one, but it’s about eight years old, and I need only the tiniest shred of an excuse to buy new clothes.) And Land’s End is one of the few places that actually carries colorful suits in plus sizes in a wide variety of styles. Yeah, they don’t have as wide a range of colors as in the straight sizes, but just today I saw some really adorable paisley suits that I’m very tempted to order.

By: Ericka

Ericka — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:56:27 +0000

I almost always shop at Land’s End for my pants and slacks because, as a fat woman who is also freakishly tall, it is one of the few places that I can actually get pants that fit me in both directions.

Alas, this is not true of their jeans or sweatpants, etc.

Usually my pants get rubbed through in the inner thigh very quickly, but I have 3 pairs of lands end cords I’ve been wearing for over 2 years now without that happening. I mean, they’re thinner, but no holes or runs or anything.

I just bought several more pairs, including the navy blue, velvet-look, jeans-style pants I’m wearing at this moment, which I love.

The only sad thing is that I am now usually wearing their largest size.

-E

By: msruth

msruth — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:11:23 +0000

I absolutely love Lands’ End. I have so much of their stuff, for rowing, for hiking, for work, it’s all just so comfy I want to wear it all the time. Which makes me the coolest 22 year old in town, but I just don’t care, whenever my mother gets anything from Lands’ End it somehow ends up coming to uni to live with me. Also, their slippers make me want to die of warm snug happiness.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:09:35 +0000

Okay, I totally hear all the comments about the plus range being limited, and I agree that the ideal would be every store carrying a full range of the same stuff. But I can only think of two stores that do that — Eddie Bauer and J. Jill, which are where I buy about 75% of my clothes. In the meantime, I’m pretty comfortable promoting a store that goes up to 18-20 in straight sizes and offers hundreds of plus-size options.

I mean, every time I talk about Lane Bryant or whatever, I’m leaving out everyone who’s above a size 28 — and I’m very conscious of that. And one of the reasons I personally love EB and J. Jill (and LE, for that matter) is that they carry petites up to 18 — but then, short women who wear sizes above that still have to buy clothes that are too big in scale for them. Talbot’s carries a woman petite line, which I love them for, but it’s hella limited, and it only goes up to 24W. Tall women are screwed at a lot of places I shop. Etc. Really, the only way to avoid excluding/disappointing some people is to not talk about clothes at all. And I like to talk about clothes.

On a happier note, LE just released a whack of new spring stuff, and you might be surprised by some of the colors available in plus.

1) Lands’ End is the proper punctuation of their brand name, even though it is clearly wrong. Apparently they had a typo that got trademarked years ago.

I am so appalled by that, I refuse to acknowledge it. That’s even worse than Starbucks having no apostrophe at all.

2) That hat is the fugliest thing I have ever seen. Ever.

You should see it on! It’s awful! But OMG, there’s a huge difference when it’s -2 between my regular hat and one with fleece-lined ear flaps. And I am my father’s daughter. (Also, I got it from the overstocks and only paid $9.99. I really wanted this one, which I actually think is kinda dorky cute [especially in pink], but since a bomber hat is only ever gonna be so cute, and I’m only likely to wear it on bitter cold days, I went for the cheap one.)

Lands’ End ad copy is kind of hilarious:

A few years ago, when I was looking for excuses to move back to the States, I saw that they were looking for a copywriter and was SO tempted to apply. Unfortunately, while I did want to get back to the midwest, I was not prepared to move to Dodgeville, WI. Also, I am not clever enough to think up phrases like “packed with technology.”