As promised, we are working towards making Lastwear as transparent as possible.
To that end, we're making publicly viewable our Business Log.
This is a Google Doc that we are using for our internal communications log to help us keep track of who's been doing what.
We will be starting a new one each month and as we do we'll be posting the link to it here on the site.
We're not quite sure where the permanent home for this will be on the Lastwear web site so for now it's just going here as a blog post.

Here's the link

Wow, we did it. 111 backers and we smashed through our goal. Amazing.
Thank you all so, so much for your support. You are proof positive of the desire for real change in the way we do business in the world. We promise to do everything we can to live up to to that and to continue to be worthy of your support. We sincerely hope all of you will stay involved woth us as we go forward. Lastwear has to continue to be more than business as usual and to do that we need honest friends who will call us out when we slip up and who will let us know when we get it right too!

Thank you all!

The Last Crew.

Ok, since we're a little late, we’ll run this till August 31st.

Here’s how it will work.
If you want to get one of the pay what you like Pinkertons or Teasdales
Send an email orders@lastwear.com with “Pay what you like vest” as the title line.
The information we’ll need is as follows,

Pinkerton
Chest measurement just below the arms in inches. Don’t forget to breath in deeply.
Waist measurement in inches measured just above the top of the pelvis.

Teasdale
Undebust - measure around the chest just below your bosom. Breath in.
If you plan on wearing a bra with your Teadale, measure with the bra on as the under-wire will change your measurement.
Waist measurement in inches measured just above the top of the pelvis.
High hip - mesure around your hips right at the hip bone.

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If you have an unusually shaped body, put on some tight fitting clothes and have a friend take front, back and side shots and attach them to the email.

Once we have received your email we will check your measurements and confirm whether or not we can make a vest in your size. Then you’ll send us what you think the vest is worth via paypal.

Limit is 1 garment per customer.

Available colors: Dark brown ONLY. Don’t even think of asking for another color in conjunction with this offer ;)

Delivery schedule:
Controlling costs for these garments means we cant afford to start making them until all orders are in. Production will therefore begin Sept 1st.
Delivery will be 4 to 6 weeks later.

Pricing.

The Base Price for the Pinkerton will be $45
The base price for the Teasdale will be $40
Shipping for both will be $15

That amount covers the cost of the fabric, the buttons and what the factory charges us for cutting and sewing. That’s it.
That means if you pay $45 for the Pinkerton we make $0 - the cost of our time/labor taking the order and packaging it up.
Our hope is that enough of you will pay more than $45 so that those people who can only afford $45 can still get one and we won’t lose money doing it.
If this goes well and we actually make a little money we will continue to offer a new style/color of clothing, at a pay what you like price, every other month.

IMPORTANT: As this information is posted in several different places we will only be answering questions through emails sent to orders@lastwear.com with “Pay what you like vest” in the title. If you leave a question here we will ignore it, we’re just too busy to go chasing after people who don’t read the instructions. Thank you for you cooperation - The Management

We did it!
Wow, 96 backers and still six days left and we've blown through our goal. Thank you everyone so sooo much.
For your generosity, for helping to spread the word, for sitting through our endless updates and especially for believing in Lastwear. Your support in this has been truly inspiring and affirming.
I can hardly express how excited we are to be able to get to work on so many things that had until now been on permanent back burner status.
We'll be moving updates over to the Lastwear Blog once the kickstarter has run it's full time so that's the place to keep up with what we're doing.
We will be trying to post as much information on how we run Lastwear as we can. I expect things to be a little erratic at first because none of us are prolific bloggers.
If there are specific questions that any of you have about Lastwear it would be really good to hear them as that will help inform us of what sort of information is useful to you.
I'll write a new post this week giving a full breakdown of our agenda and how we see an open source manufacturer working. This will be where we can really benefit from hearing everyone's suggestions as, to the best of my knowledge, no one has tried this before so we're just coming up with ideas, running them past the gut test, and having at it. This is the open beta for the economics of the new millennium baby!

Once again, thank you all so very, very much. You folks just amaze us!

Thom B.

N.B, There will be another post to follow shortly with details about the limited edition run of clothes for those who are interested.