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After Lululemon unwittingly churned out thousands of apparently see-through yoga pants, the company is now facing a worldwide shortage of its iconic hip-hugging bottoms.

“We have determined that certain shipments of product received from our factories … do not meet our technical specifications,” wrote the company in a Monday afternoon statement titled “Black Luon Pants Shortage Expected.”

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Within hours, the news had caused the company’s stock price to slide by more than 7%.

The defective pants have been filtering in to Lululemon stores since March 1st.

Although “the ingredients, weight and longevity” of the pants remain the same, during a March 11th conference call with store managers, executives were alerted to a high level of “sheerness” (transparency) in some of their black women’s bottoms.

The company said they spent the weekend pulling the overly-revealing pants from stores and showrooms stores — and estimated that approximately 17% of all black women’s bottoms had been affected by the recall.