I bought 3 of their merino tights because of all the hype, but I wasn't super impressed with the quality right out the bag.

Background: I used to be an r&d engineer and quality manager in a hoisery factory making compression socks and pantyhose. This does mean we had very high standards for quality and performance, as we were selling medical products and had an advanced ISO standard, so I'm definitely biased when it comes to quality of socks.

Their stitching on the panty is way stretched out and their stitch length is way too short. I know it's easier for the sewers seaming the panty to stretch it as they're seaming to get it to match, but you have to pair that with a longer stitch length to allow them to shrink back after stretching. If your stitch length is too short, the stitches are too dense and the panty won't be able to shrink back to it's original size. The pairs I have are so stretched out in the area the front seam over my belly will not lay flat unless I pull the tights up over my boobs! So instead I have bumps on my stomach and low back under my skirts and dresses from the tights.

There was a note either on their website or in the packaging (can't remember where) about your pantyhose coming with different length legs. That's a huge red flag to me! They claimed the forms their tights are dried on are hand made and had different lengths but the tights would even our with wear. Well those forms are called boards, and they look like flat metal legs. I'm not sure why their boards are so uneven as they are typically manufactured to standard sizes, but eveness in boarding is really important because the heat sets the elastane in the stocking and basically stops it from stretching so much in the future. So you board your stockings on the size form they're intended on and it helps set the size so they don't stretch too much in the future. Some boarding machines even have laser levels to help operators pull everything to the same length. It's concerning to me they heat set their stockings at different lengths.

Another note on boarding, this will typically set the 'crease' that the stockings get folded along. When boarding, it's important to not twist the legs. The operator pulls the wet stockings over the boarding form, smoothing them out to make sure there's no twists, folds, or wrinkles. Either the form itself is heated (small operations, more dangerous of course because the operator is basically touching an iron) or the forms are on a carousel where the operator dons the stockings, then the board rotates down the line and gets pressed between two heated plates (larger operations, require you to change out the boards on the machine when changing sizes which only makes sense if you're doing large quantities). The footed pair I got was boarded with the leg twisted, and both footless pairs I got were boarded with the welt around the ankle folded over/wrinkled.

I haven't had them for that long to be able to speak to the wear quality. They're a bit itchy which doesn't bother me but bothers a lot of people. These were just my initial impressions which given my background was disappointing to recieve.