Award-Winning Clothes Doctor Ticks All BUT One Box | Dragons' Den 

$70,000 for 3 percent of a business that's lost $350,000 over the last two years and expects to lose another $250,000 this year before potentially breaking even next year. What a bargain.

I think the only chance of saving her business is to take the clothes that require her service, and attach a Flow Signal to them

Theo was spot on when he said to the other dragons at the end: "she never heard One. Single. Word."

Deborah was spot on clothing repairs is very easy to find, many dry cleaning shops do it besides stand alone.

First of all I thought she was just looking for website views by showing it on tv but the fact that she’s already lost £600,000 is crazy.

You can buy a small local dry cleaners business for £25k doing more revenue that shes making here. Her ego is ridiculous.

Don't know why she thought such a mundane idea would go from 6 figure losses into decent profit. This screams cottage industry

In my part of Manchester there's a clothing repair shop that's teamed up with Uber to collect and return clothes needing adjustment or repair. Shops like that are everywhere.

£150 to repair a pant 🤭 Woman, my pants cost $13 and I run them to the ground in a year.. Let me know when a repair is done in $5

The tiniest bit of research would have told her that what she's offering already exists *everywhere*.

SEAMS like a poor investment

Clothes Doctor and Kardoctor should team up.

The Car Doctor sequel we all needed

Sometimes too much money is a problem- Debra Meaden 2022

Deborah was spot on. Too much money too soon. If you've only got £1 and you need to turn it into £2 or else you'll starve then your dam sure gonna watch every penny of that pound.

Frankly, I'm sick of these industry disrupters. Stop disrupting industries!

She made so much money in her financial trading job that she just doesn't appreciate money anymore. I imagine that she has always been good at making money at her financial job, so good in fact that she never had to learn to manage it well when she was the one actually in charge of a business.

I feel quite sad for this woman who clearly has her head in the clouds. She needs protection from herself.

Who would spend £150 to repair a pair of trousers? If you have the money to buy £1500 suits, there is no way you would get into this, no matter how eco friendly you want to be seen to be seen…..how did she ever have this amount of money to play with? It’s baffling really…

This business will be flushed down the Lu-Lu.

These prices are insane!! You can take your suit trousers to a tailor and get them repaired for less than £180 🤣

they didn't even talk about her 2.3 million dollar valuation

The company's website is still up and running but it seems they moved away from mending clothes to focusing on eco-friendly detergents

Lulu's business is sew sew.

What is this woman thinking?? Easy to replicate concept and the amount of money she has lost is absolutely ridiculous, I don’t know why she thought she would get investment. Waste of the dragons time

There HAS to be something more to this...right? She said 'award winning'...what was the award for?

How did she manage to get third party investors to put £464,000 in? By smiling prettily at them? She seems totally delusional and the whole thing seems to be a vanity project, so that she can go to dinner parties and say, "Hey, I'm Lulu and I'm a disruptor". Traders in banks don't know anything about business and they don't know how the money which they trade is made.

Lulu's business "London Apprentice Ltd" which trades under the name of "Clothes Doctor" is still active but judging by the last accounts showing on Companies House (March 2021) it doesn't appear to be doing very well.

For someone that worked in financial trading she understands nothing about profit and loss and balance sheet. Totally unphased by the fact that her business is bleeding money at a terminal rate. Disrupting the market place - she read that in a marketing website. She is disrupting nothing except her investors bank balances.

£3 for 70,000% would be a more realistic deal for this utterly failing business.

I don't understand. Every city, every neighbourhood has at least one, possibly dozens of places to get your clothes repaired. Why would anyone go online to do it? It's introducing a new level of complexity to something that is very simple. It's like saying I need a bottle of milk, and going online instead of to the local shop or garage.

Well, it's what we'd call NOT a rags to riches business!

'I've got a rip in my pants' ClothesDoctor: 'Take it to a tailor, mate'

Her business isn’t unique and so easily to replicate, she thinks she’s disrupting the system but has she though. The answer is no.

That smile from Sara Davies

Traders = professional gamblers. So it's no surprise that she is losing money hand over fist and still going full speed. Utter delusion.

Poor Lulu, she can't see the business is destined to fail

>entrepreneur makes eco-friendly claim >camera cuts to deborah nodding every time

"I think that's some form of glue" -Theo

Deborah is a fine example of growing old gracefully 😊

Lulu does not seem to realise that she's throwing good money after bad and she’s really flogging a dead horse!

That's such a weird market to think you own it. There's a zillion people who do repair work like this from their basement, do it themselves, have a friend do it, or take it to one of quite a few shops around that do it. There's a mall 7 minutes from my home that does lovely work for a fraction of what she's charging. And to top it off, I don't have to mail my clothes somewhere, which is just weird. I can't imagine taking a £400,000 loss in 2 years for seamstress work. That's insanity. The comment of her having too much money too fast is spot on.

I think Lulu went a little cuckoo !!!! We planned to lose 600,000 pounds this was part of the big plan !!!

How can anyone say they are on track to do £200k *revenue* this year and then the next sentence ask for £70k for 3%? And then to be losing £250,000 each year….her whole business isn’t worth £70k. Deluded. These people obviously have no concept of the value of money; easy come, easy go,

I'm with Debra I just don't see this working. This is insanity! You need to try stuff on too to make sure of the length for starters. She needs to stop putting money into this, she's insane.

Alteration and Restoration treatments? Man I feel like I'm playing Skyrim again.

OMFG. This is nutty. All the right words. And not a single buck of profit.

£150 for suit trousers? You can get a nice new suit for that with change to add a shirt and tie!!

When I need my clothes washed or mended I just take them to the local Oxfam shop and then buy them back for a few shillings!

My gosh, I have a seamstress who mends and repairs clothing for me. She even does a bit of tailoring and it all costs me but a few euro’s! When something is a bit more difficult to do she only charges about 15 euro’s! She is very meticulous and I am very happy with her. I don’t understand this woman one bit….

This is probably the worst I've seen from all the dens/tanks, considering the ask, the revenue and the losses.

Oh?? What happened to Touker? He’s gone and Theo is back now? They look so much alike I didn’t even notice at first lol

Many people work their entire lives and not earn $600000 pounds.🙄🙄🙄

According to Google she is still in business!!

I have no idea why people throw hundreds of thousands of pounds at something like this. I can only think that the more they throw at it, the more they need it to work until they implode.

Sounds like this clothes repair business.... is beyond repair

This just seems like a case of someone who is passionate and has an idea who has thrown everything at it and believes if you throw everything at it and pour a ton of money into it; it will make it. When in reality she's not done her research and has adventured down a very very long path which leads to nowhere and she probably now feels she's at the point of no return. I'm honestly worried for her. I feel she's going to have to find a way to strip this all down, take a ton of loses on the chin and find a spot where it ticks over and is a modest income for her or find a buyer and run a mile. I'd be tempted to see if the current share holders want the rest of the stakes in the business for cheap and reduce some damage limitation.

Love these older episodes, I have watched every single episode there is of this wonderful show.

In Stoke on Trent there's a business not far from me where they do repairs and alterations near me....I even got my motorcycle jacket repaired there too..

Most expensive pair of jeans I ever bought were around £90, I bought two pairs and never felt right about it, just felt like a waste of money. I can't imagine spending over £100 to fox a pair of what I wear now, witch is usually cargo trousers that cost just under £50 and they last years. Can't get my head around spending so much money on clothes. Maybe if you buy a really nice expensive suit for special occasions, or if you work in a really high end job then yeah I can see why you would spend the money on a really nice tailored suit, but for the average joe it just isn't worth it.

Like many of today's young people. They get complimented all their lives and believe their praises. Pretty girl but not too smart leaving her high paying job for this.

Her attitude was good in the end though, just somewhat delirious

They should do a special episode with 17 Dragons to pitch to🐉. 1. Nick Jenkins 2. Sara Davies 3. Peter Jones 4. Piers Linney 5. Richard Farleigh 6. Rachel Elnaugh 7. Simon Woodroffe 8. Kelly Hoppen 9. Tej Lalvani 10. Touker Suleyman 11. Deborah Meaden 12. Theo Paphitis 13. Duncan Bannatyne 14. Steven Bartlett 15. Jenny Campbell 16. Richard Branson 17. Alan Sugar.

Totally agree with the dragons

I have a Dsquared2 leather jacket which cost me £2000. I went to many places in London including Harrods but no one can fix one of many zips on my leather jacket. They want to replace all of my zips with their available stock but it will ruin the jacket. I will give her company a try & see if they are unique.

"Award Winning"... that is where all the money has been going. She calls it marketing, but it was buying awards. £62k T/O? She has done well to have this lifestyle business that others fund

companies house says this company was dissolved in 2017. she had a fast track career making good money and spunked the lot on a vanity project. shame.

I earn more than she turns over in a year with a giant team of seamstresses. Well done me.

Well, lets not forget the room full of happy seamstresses who made some good coin for a while.

720P ? THEY NEED TO FIRE WHOEVER PUTS THESE VIDEOS UP AND HIRE SOMEONE DECENT

Girl: "I have a fresh new business. I hope the Dragons like it." Dragons: "Are you making any money?" Girl: "I'm on track to lose $1,000,000 of other investors' money" Dragons: "I'm gonna listen to you until I hear something good before I say I'm out".

Can't wait to see what happens

...So I can get my trousers repaired for £150? ...Cool!

Oh no another "disruptor" 😂

I mean we do order groceries online even though we could just go to the market and buy some ourselves, or like order stuff frm amazon which we can get in our nearby shops. This is how it is and i think getting our clothes fixed online is a g8 idea.... Like i get it the numbers are not impressive at all but the idea is not bad

Her facial expression is one of defeat, even if she cant admit it to herself.

Cleeantel. That's a new one.

So does Johnson’s the dry cleaners.

She seemed absolutely lovely, but slightly deluded. I hope she does make it successful, or something else. I’m sure she will, somehow. 👌

Wow what a cash burning business!

Having lived in Cornwall for years ,it’s very easy to think that your business is doing well because people lose track of what is going on in the rest of the Country. The most commonly used expression is that things will be done ‘dreckly’,.not a bad thing if like lots of people are happy ,but not over the Tamar.

She should add to her services accepting donated clothes to repair / upgrade them and to sell some items and donate the rest.

A good idea but those prices need to be scaled down...fast

The business is practically hemorrhaging money - the only way I could see her business actually working is if she shut down the workshop and focused only on selling products that extend the life of your clothes.

There is a shop in Ireland called the Clothes Doctor been going for years

£150 for an invisible mend on a trousers . You could buy 6 trousers for £25 in M&S for this amount . Plus who is going to go all the trouble of finding a suitable bag to put them in , then walk down to the Post Office, queue up, pay the exorbitant cost of postage these days and wait for them to be delivered back .

I think the Dragons are wrong. Saying you can just go to the dry cleaners in the 21st century is dumb, why have Deliveroo when i can just walk around to the local takeaway shop?

I can't even be bothered to return faulty products that I spent a lot of money on by mail

It shows you that a calm well spoken exterior can bluff capital out of people in the right circles- this girl is a dreamer.

Shes a bloody good fundraiser ill give her that

Her poor investors were bamboozled by the word "disruption", and they have lost their shirt. I'm gobsmacked.

Disrupting a local 5 mins service by making a website

Lol 100ks of loss “I want 70k for 3%” 😂

She did not talk about the stuff she handed out at all. Is she selling that or what’s the deal with the stuff is silver bottles?

Theo ❤️

I would never consider repairing anything in the field of clothing, but that is due to the fact that i buy cheap and never go for any expensive brands. D0n´t see a potential here.

Her products are actually lovely. I think she should just focus on those and scrap the repairs business

Sorry but that is the most Ludacris business i have seen yet

Theo: Lulu, how are you funding this? Have you got a fairy godmother? 🤣🤣🤣

Is Uber NOT! just a cab service? What else is it. And an unlicenced taxicab service at that. (At least here in the US.)