#Maya Kern

[stasiaonline]

YAY!!! Now that there's a link, I will go and buy things! (I really like the look of that loungewear, especially since I barely leave the house anymore.) I'll especially check out the shirts, though, since (iirc) the post said that those are important to move!

New clothes that fit *me*, how exciting!

Things are bad right now.

As many of you know, way back in 2020 we weren’t sure if our business was gonna make it. Our factory was already on break for Lunar New Year–a month-long holiday for many businesses in the area–and with the announcement of COVID19, everything shut down indefinitely. We knew immediately we were in for a bad time. Despite our fears, our sales grew so far beyond anything we ever expected, to the point where we had to hire two employees just to keep up with demand! 

Unfortunately, even after our factory reopened, our problems were not over. Their quality drastically declined almost immediately, to the point that a significant amount of our  fabric would literally fall apart in transit between the factory and our office. Because of this, we discovered that our sales rep had no idea what she was doing and knew nothing about the factory she was representing, so when we told her the fabric was garbage her response was “👍 factory said it’s good!” At the beginning, only roughly 10% of our new product was defective and we were able to sell the affected items with a reasonable discount. By the end of our relationship with that factory, 40% of our midi skirts and 70% of our miniskirts were defective, some affected so severely that they practically fell apart when touched. And still, our rep said everything was fine and there were no problems and the fabric composition had not changed.

So in 2022 we changed factories. We hired Ash to handle this since I was way too busy managing fulfillment to do the amount of research and communication necessary to find us a factory that met our criteria. Finding clothing factories that can make clothing over a size 2-3X is significantly more difficult than one that can’t because it often requires larger and more expensive machinery. But Ash did it: she got us set up with a new factory that has excellent certifications for both their labor practices and their methods for textile production, that delivers consistent, high quality sewing on well made fabric that can be printed without suffering loss in detail–and she was armored with the knowledge for what makes a quality garment so she could check them if they tried to screw us on quality. Their minimum orders were way higher than our previous factory’s, so we decided to focus on ordering more units of fewer designs. We ordered way too much our first round–some of those designs were in stock until the 2024 blowout sale! But it worked out, and slowly we had a warehouse full of stuff to sell.

Fast forward to 2024, business is slowing down between the economy being bad and what seemed to be a general skirt fatigue amongst our customers. We tried expanding into shirts, which would’ve been successful if our minimums were lower. In the late spring we realized we were in trouble if we didn’t make drastic changes and we ultimately decided to end in-house fulfillment and transfer to a third party fulfillment center that would support domestic shipping in Canada and eventually the UK, EU, and Australia. In order to make that transition affordable we drastically discounted everything and that sale was super successful! We were able to begin shipping from the fulfillment center with an almost clean slate, even if it did mean having to close the store for almost two months and thereby missing out on two very important months of sales.

Unfortunately, we were stupid. We continued to order new designs on an every other month schedule instead of switching to an every month schedule, forgetting that having a backstock in a variety of designs is what previously helped us float between orders and now we quite literally didn’t have enough inventory to match the sales we made for last year’s holiday sale.

That brings us to now.

We’re a little stuck. We have a round of skirts in production (yay!) but they won’t get here until February (boo!). To get back on that monthly cycle we would need to order the next round of skirts right now, but we can’t pay for production until that next round of skirts gets here; if the current sale goes well, it’s paying payroll, not production. We are currently in the very difficult, horrible situation of not having enough money for next month’s payroll unless we are somehow able to make significant sales with our very sparse inventory.

We’re scrappy and we do our best to adapt to disasters and I’m sure we’ll find a way to adapt to this one as well, it’ll just take us some time to get there. Basically we’re going to be okay eventually–hopefully later this year–but in the meantime if we seem frantic, now you know why. 

If you’re been considering trying out our viscose shirts but haven’t been able to justify paying full price, they’re on clearance PLUS half off right now! That’s $9-$15 for the viscose tops, and other tops on clearance are $20-$45. Some of the shirts we’re having a LOT of trouble selling are now priced below cost to help us recoup some of the money we spent making them.

Any amount of support helps right now. Sharing posts, telling your friends, buying a $9 shirt–all of it helps. If our clothing isn’t your thing, we also have a Patreon you can support for as little as $1 a month. https://www.patreon.com/mayakern

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you have a great rest of your day and that 2025 is a brighter, kinder year for us all.

[artofshinga]

I wanted to draw my D&D druid Lua wearing the @mayakern jellyfish skirt :D also been posting some art over on Bluesky if y'all wanna follow there too

[bombdotmom]

🌻Sunflower 🌻

It's a very good flower. The seasonal depression is kicking my ass but we take small victories where we can get them. Is an unusually warm Michigan winter scary? A little. But I get to wear this cute little fit. Small victories.

Maya Kern skirts continue to be a wardrobe staple time and time again. The deep pockets on these bad boys make carrying a purse unnecessary but I make an exception for my favorite sunflower purse made by Morning Witch.

Top: Old Navy

Duster: Torrid

Skirt: @mayakern @sergle

Bag: @morningwitchy

Boots: Meijers (When the ancient texts were first written)

[otterpuppss]

@mayakern

[adorkastock]

FREE ALERT! The @mayakern and AdorkaStock collab pack features over 100 images of skirts, skirts, and skirts (and some swords too) and it's totally FREE. Get it now on Ko-fi!

[kchayes54]

I am ordained in my church but I do not work in the church. I work as a healthcare chaplain providing spiritual support to people of all faiths and no faiths. However, I do volunteer preaching/helping with services at my church.

We are doing a gender affirming pride month service on Saturday and we were invited to wear rainbow stoles. However, I do not have a rainbow stole. So, despite never having hand sewed an entire project in my life, I decided to make a rainbow stole by hand sewing because I do not own a sewing machine.

I love so much how it turned out! And it's reversible. 🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍

I'm Ace so I added an @mayakern ace butterfly pin to each side. 💜

[nekohooch]

As continual motivation to work on cosplays I have been documenting the process of making this one by @mayakern

I’m editing the original slightly just for my own body limitations but I’m staying pretty close to the source picture!

I got about 3 yards of power mesh which is a fabric that has a four way stretch and I’m using it as the base for my bodice. I sewed it onto a bra because trying to make feathers conform to boob shape without it sounded like hell

Then I attached it to my dress form and got to work. When I was working on my Azem summoning circle dress I bought a silicone mat that’s usually used for baking, because it’s perfect to keep hot glue from sticking to surfaces. I put that under the mesh and started the very long process of applying feathers with hot glue. These are cruelty free feathers primarily (I got some from craft stores and online before I looked into types of feathers and how not to suck while using them) and the hardest part of the process is honestly taking the little fluffy bits off Every. Single. Feather.

And now it’s just repeat ad nauseam

I’m slowly working on the back but I have to figure out how to fasten this top before I add the feathers because if I’m doing a zipper I need to arrange the feathers accordingly. Next reblog will be the necklace I made when I can get pictures of it!

[thefatfemme]

Finally got to wear my new @mayakern skirt! I love the daintily morbid vibe so I tried to lean into a sort of cottage-goth aesthetic, and I'm really pleased with the result 🥰

[somethingwittythiswaycomes]

New @mayakern skirts are here, and kiddo finally has one of her own! (and I'm now up to 9 myself with this one and the two others that came with it lol)

She is having a wonderful time twirling and swishing, and the first thing she put in the pocket of her skirt (as tradition requires) was the switch :D

(kiddo is in jellyfish mini new size A, I'm in the bubbles midi new size B)

[sailorastera]

Skirts from @mayakern are a party trick! 🎮 ✨

[scookart]

Zoo-ika is here!

It's a little suika-like I made with my friend, @mayakern! You can play it now on itch.io! Play it in your browser (mobile supported!!) or download it for windows.

Have fun, y'all~

[rosebloodcat]

I have some lovely skirts and shirts that I got from Maya Kern! They're honestly my favorites!

They're really nice quality and very comfy. And the patterns are just plain fun!

ALSO THE SKIRTS HAVE, LIKE, ACTUALLY USABLE POCKETS.

I can put my cellphone AND my wallet in them! And still have room for my hands!

Our whole store is now on sale! 50% off shirts and 20% off everything else! ⭐️Ethical labor ⭐️sizes small-6x ⭐️sustainable fashion

[shanalikeanna]

Wanted to dress all cute today to encourage spring to stick around 💕

Skirt by @mayakern

[bombdotmom]

Mystery Skulls Concert Fit.

Im going back to my roots I went to the tenth anniversary tour for the album Forever by the Mystery Skulls. I believe they're still touring I highly recommend seeing them live. They played eye to eye from a goofy movie at the end so the vibes were immaculate.

Top: Old Navy

Skirt: @mayakern @sergle

Bow bag: My Violet

Belt chain: hot topic

Shoe's: Berkenstock

[roseofblogging]

Wearing the pink wrap shirt by @mayakern and a cute spring skirt (adjustable!!!) by cmoeskirts.

[adorkastock]

Free on my Ko-fi: First Maya Kern Collab Pack!

I know you all have been waiting for this for a while, thanks for your patience! The first @mayakern collab pack is up for Free+ on the Kofi. 👗✨

Get it now! ♥

This pack features 24 images of Maya and Sarah in skirts looking cute together and 89 images of Maya and her wife Devin being incredible excessive and dramatic with a sword and each other.

We hope you love these, we had so much fun making them! 🥰

Please check out Maya's beautiful, size inclusive fashion at MayaKern.com ♥

I have many more shots from this day so there will be more to come! ✨

Visit the AdorkaStock Ko-fi shop for many free and paid themed packs as well as pose ref merch. You can subscribe to paid themed packs through Patreon. ♥