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Lululemon: real vs fake

Every Lululemon checkpoint on this site states a measurement, an accept range and how we arrived at it. No comparison photos we didn't shoot, no certificates.

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  • Size dot date code 4 digits after the first period on a 2019 or later dot: month then year, so 0420 is April 2020
  • Style code length 6 characters on the size dot and the hang tag, such as W5CT3S; tags printed before about 2019 add a leading L, LW5CQFS
  • RN number 106259 on the rip tag of every lululemon garment sold in the United States, printed as RN 106259; Canadian tags add CA 35801
  • Nulu fibre split 81 percent nylon with 19 percent Lycra elastane on the Align High-Rise Pant 25 and the Align with Pockets 25, per lululemon.com
  • Scuba hoodie fibre split 70 percent cotton with 30 percent recycled polyester in the body of the Scuba Oversized Half-Zip Hoodie; rib 97 percent cotton, 3 percent elastane
  • Inseam length 25 inches from the crotch seam to the hem on an Align, Wunder Train or Wunder Under 25; 28 on the full-length Align 28
  • Size number range 0 to 20 on women's bottoms and tops, in steps of 2, per the lululemon size guide; bras carry band and cup sizes
  • Retail price 98 USD for the Align 25 and the Wunder Train 25 on lululemon.com; 128 for the Align with Pockets 25, the Define Jacket Luon and the Scuba Oversized Half-Zip Hoodie
  • Hang tag position 1 st seam from the waistband, left side, on bottoms; bottom left on tops; never through the rip tag
  • Batch code 2 characters, one letter and one digit, printed at the bottom of the rip tag and repeated inside the dot code
  • Country of manufacture 40 percent of fiscal 2025 product made in Vietnam; Cambodia 18, Sri Lanka 11, Indonesia 11, Bangladesh 7, other 13, per the lululemon 10-K
  • Rip tag text version 3 versions of the top of the rip tag since 2016: lululemon athletica with the logo, lululemon with the logo, and logo only
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