Who Made Your Pants?

Gorgeous Pants. By women, for women.

It’s been aaaages since we ran a competition

It’s been aaaages since we ran a competition and so for no reason at all other than it’s a long weekend, and that deserves celebration even if it is grey and rainy, it’s prize draw time.

 

Buy any pants pack this weekend* and we’ll enter you into a draw on Tues. day. One lucky winner will receive a gorgeous Who Made Your Pants (and friends!) goodie bag worth over £30.

 
No need to tick any boxes or add anything at checkout. We’ll do an equivalent of the 52 card pick up trick with all the orders on Tuesday and the lucky winner will get a lovely surprise!
 
*it’s a bank holiday so yes, the weekend officially ends at midnight/23.59 on Monday 

 

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May the Fourth – Be Free!

A Long Time Ago


In A Pants Factory


Not Too Far Away


Who Made Your Pants?


Thought


Hey!


It’s Star Wars Day!


May The Fourth!


And They Said


May The Fourth Be With You,


For Free!


As you may have guessed, we love a reason to celebrate here and tomorrow, Star Wars Day is one like no other.

On Saturday May 4th we’re going to be saying May the Fourth be with YOU – for free.

Buy any three pairs of pants – either singly, or in a three pair pants pack, and get a fourth, surprise pair, for free

Buy any three pants packs, and get a fourth, surprise pack, for free. (How about asking your friends to order with you, maybe? Share the pants love!)

No codes or discounts needed, just buy any three and we’ll add the fourth.

Use the Fourth (Luke) to shop the offer here from 00.01 to 23.59 on Saturday the 4th May 2013, and May the Fourth be with YOU all day.

(and as if that’s not enough, here’s Eddie Izzard on the Death Star canteen, in Lego )

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Bread and Roses on International Worker’s Day

One hundred and one years ago, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a woman called Rose Schniederman spoke the following words

“What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.”

Rose was speaking out about the conditions that were rife in so many American clothing factories of the day. Sadly, recent events show us that these conditions are not yet entirely consigned to history.

We love Rose’s speech, and we know that like us, you love the idea that a fair days work deserves a fair days pay – for not just Bread, but Roses too. And so we’re launching our latest pants pack, ‘Bread and Roses’ with £15 off, today, on International Workers Day – and every penny spent will go back to supporting our team – who knows, maybe they’ll buy roses for their kitchen table.

‘Bread and Roses‘ includes the newest addition to our pants family, the beautiful Rosa Rosa, her sister Dot Matrix, and a pair of our classic stretch shorts in Red. It is a welcome cheery blast of colour to what we hope might finally be spring!

We hope you will join us in celebrating Rose Schniederman and all those unsung women (and men) around the world who have fought for the changes that keep us safer and happier at work, that recognise the humanity and dignity of us all, and who recognise, like another great woman, Emma Goldman, that we need more than bread to get us through. Emma wanted ‘…freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things’ – and we wholeheartedly agree.

Shop the offer here today to save £15!

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Want to get involved in Who Made Your Pants?

We’re hiring!

Not paid roles at the moment but due to two of our volunteers securing themselves full time work (and they both credited time with us as helping them do so) we’re looking for volunteers… The role is broad and we are open to it being shared between a number of people, but the minimum time commitment per person is 2 x half days per week.

The Role

A hands on role within a small, well respected, award winning and fast growing social business comprising offices, dispatch and a small factory in Southampton. It will give a strong grounding in all aspects of starting and running your own business – according to one of our successful job finders,  ‘a breadth of experience and understanding of what goes on in a business’ and there is opportunity for real responsibility from day one. A previous volunteer, a graduate of the University of Southampton, who was with us for almost two years during and after her degree, said, ‘I have learnt a tremendous amount and it has given me brilliant experience’.

The role is very varied, you will not be micromanaged, and there is scope for you to make the role suit you. It will include everything from day to day administration and office management (answering phones/doors/collecting post) to uploading new products onto our website to picking orders and wrapping them to running financial reports and preparing for and/or attending events, including in London. There is scope for the role to be directed towards particular interests – if marketing, or finance are particularly interesting, for example, we can ensure that those jobs fall to the volunteer.

You will work alongside our founder and MD Becky John, Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, an UnLtd Level 2 award winner, and regular speaker (Tedx talk upcoming) on social business.

You

You will need excellent written and spoken business English and an ability to think on your feet – we are a small and growing business, not an established one and so there are still some things that we are developing. You will need to be able to work and communicate effectively in a team made up of part time attendees, and you will understand that information shaing between such a team is critical. You will have a good telephone manner and the ability ti provide excellent customer service.

You will be familiar with generic office software packages and have the patience to cope with our slightly aged computers freezing…

You will be a fast learner and quick thinker, and you will be ambitious for yourself and for us. We are connected into some amazing media and corporate networks in London and the south and can connect you to them if you show yourself to be suited to them.

We do have to stress that on site volunteering roles are available to women only.

Location

Who Made Your Pants?

Fairways House, Mount Pleasant Industrial Estate

Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton, SO14 0QB
023 80225536
Hours
To be arranged, to suit you and us. But will be during office hours, Monday to Friday, 9-5.
Interested? Give us a call on 023 80225536 or email hello@whomadeyourpants.co.uk
Thanks!

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Happy birthday Emily!

We love a reason to celebrate here at Who Made Your Pants? and today and tomorrow we’re marking two important dates with £5 off all of our ‘Rosalind‘ pants.

Today, April 15th, is our amazing Emily’s birthday. Emily is a graduate of the world renowned Contour Fashion degree course at De Montford University, Leicester and is building up her own business as a designer and volunteering with us while she does so. Em tends to wander around our factory singing quite a lot – she’s a cheerful soul! Em also makes great savoury pancakes and was the backbone our our Pancake Day celebration this year.

You may know that we celebrate birthdays here with offers on the birthday person’s favourite pants – well, our Emily has actually struggled to pick and so while she has called our soft and lovely ‘Burnt Caramel’ ‘a great winter pant’ because of the warm soft jersey, we’re combining her birthday offer with marking another date too and we’re giving you £5 of three different pairs of pants, all of our Rosalind shorts, through today and tomorrow.

Our pants are for ‘Women Who Want to Know’ and tomorrow, April 16th, is the 55th anniversary of the death of a woman wanted to know A LOT. Rosalind Franklin, whose important contributions to the world of science often go unmentioned, had a particular interest in structures at a tiny, tiny level – she made critical contributions to work around understanding the actual structure of DNA including taking fantastic photographs of the soon to be famous double helix. There are scientific awards in her name and while we can’t claim to match those, our ‘Rosalind’ pants were named for her as she won our poll of Unsung Women last year. We loved that so many people suggested and then voted for her and we hope to be part of the choir turning her from an unsung hero to a sung loud one!.

We hope you’ll join us in our celebration even if you can’t join us with birthday cake – shop the offer here until 23.59 on Tuesday 16th April.

 

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I know a girl from a lonely street…

…Cold as Ice Cream but still as sweet, dry your eyes Sunda(e) Girl…

April - Sundae Girl

 

 

On this VERY DAY in 1892 the word Sunday was first used in print. Platt and Colt advertised a “Cherry Sunday” in the Ithaca Daily Journal and a host of scrummy desserts and treats was born. If that’s not a date worth celebrating, we don’t know what is, especially amidst this continuing cold and grey weather.

No matter how much we love a good sundae (and we do, we all went out for ice cream, um, in December, when it was WARMER than now!), it’s a bit too chilly for us to venture to our local ice cream parlour, so instead we’ve launched a toothsome looking set, our delicious, ‘Sundae Girl’.

Combining our Shocker, Champagne and Pink Fizz pants, all this sweet treat needs is a cherry on top to finish it off!

To celebrate the launch, we’re offering this set at £49 today only, a massive £15 off the usual £64 price. So brighten up your day and join us in looking forward to when we can be eating ice cream for real!

 

Shop the offer here

 

PS You may have heard that we were able to increase our team’s hours last week, just by two hours per woman per week but it’s hugely important to them and us. YOU did that. Every single pair of pants YOU buy makes thing like that possible. Do good. Get good. Feel good.

 

 

 

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Versatility

In a training session today, we were asked if people who currently do one job could learn the others. Some of the team are already doing this and we’re building individual training plans for each team member. We’ve always planned to teach versatility rather than just plain skills so we’re pretty delighted by that request

 

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Snap offer! 15% off pants packs until midnight!

We’ve just found out over lunch that today is both International Happiness Day AND Nowruz, the Persian New Year 

And as well as that we are DELIGHTED to be announcing that we are increasing our team’s hours.

So what better day to decide to do a snap offer. We can’t share our celebratory lunch (gorgeous desiccated coconut cakes, Afghan pilau, spiced spinach, Dutch cheese…) but we can share the love. So here’s something for you.

15% off all pants packs, until midnight. No strings. Just savings

Enjoy!

Becky
xx

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Honk Honk! Closing the Comic Relief circle

Those of you who follow us on twitter and facebook will have seen me talking recently about something called Team Honk. Team Honk is a group of people determined to do something funny for money for Comic Relief, founded (some may say whipped into shape by) by three awesome bloggers, Tanya, Annie and Penny

Well, as well as going off to Ghana to see the impact of the funds raised by Comic Relief, these intrepid folks decided to walk up Snowdon – in March, in the cold – and to add the ‘something funny’ – they wore our bright red pants over their trousers, superhero style.

We’ve been told they got a few looks, but that it helped lighten the mood, which is what you’re going to need when you’re stomping up a mountain in Wales (my homeland is not known for the most clement of weather, eh?) in March

We love that this happened as we were part funded by Comic Relief some time back. They gave £5778 to pay for a trainer for our team, to deliver and embed technical and employability skills for a period of time. And we love – love – that we have been able to close the circle by, in a tiny way, being part of giving something back.

Team Honk have, at the time of writing, raised £5664 (almost as much as we were funded by) and while, of course, we want you to keep on supporting us and buying our pants, if you’ve any spare dosh, I’d urge you to bung it their way. Our work isn’t done yet – the circle isn’t completely closed – but every penny given to us went to making a real difference and I’ve no doubt that very other organisation supported by Comic Relief was as grateful and supported as we were.

There are more photos and videos of Team Honk than I can shake a pair of pants at but my selected picks of are these…

Team Honk, before the event, giggling like giggly things

Pants on a hen

Team Honk, the movie

Pants in the Air (scroll down)

Read more about Team Honk here

and about it’s intrepid, awesome, and determined founders Annie Penny Tanya

GO Team Honk!

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QUICK FIRE COMPETITION!

Our competition last week for a weekend pass to the WOW festival was won by someone who already has a ticket so we’re doing a quickfire competition TODAY

If YOU want a weekend ticket to the fantastic WOW Festival THIS WEEKEND be by your computers/phones at 13.30 looking at either our facebook or twitter 

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