Wow. Old Navy can truly suck it.

Here’s my letter:

To Whom it may concern,

I am a “big girl” and I have shopped at your store for several years. I usually find that some of your XL tops fit me perfectly and I’ve been wearing your size 16 or 18 jeans depending on the pair. However, I’m not always able to squeeze into your regular line.

I heard by word of mouth and not through any advertising campaign that Old Navy would begin carrying a Plus Size line a few years ago, but that this line could only be found Online or in select stores. (Lame)

I promptly ordered clothes from your online store (taking what I could get) and was sadly disappointed nearly every time with how the clothes fit.
I don’t know how many sizing models you used, but unless your goal was to make every chubby girl in America look dumpy, you were way off the mark. The shirts were typically crafted for circus giants with long arms, no breasts and small stomachs – while your skirts and pants sported the ever-unflattering gut pocket…highlighting and misshaping the body in the most horrendous ways. Whoever designed your plus line has either never seen a chubby girl or has a murderous vendetta against them and is hell bent on destroying their collective self-image.
I have recently learned that Old Navy is pulling their plus-size line from whatever stores that they had been in and will only be offering them to customers online. I find this move vulgar and repulsive. You want to discriminate against your larger clients by forcing them to pay for shipping on items BEFORE they know if they will even fit (and here’s a hint – they probably won’t). You’re discriminating against the part of your client base that needs to try on your clothes the most.

I’ve heard the reason for pulling your plus line is because it wasn’t doing very well – Well, of course it wasn’t! You NEVER advertised it. You were too busy putting 80 lb. anorexics in underwear and turtlenecks in your commercials. You didn’t carry the line in enough stores to really, properly assess marketing and sales data accurately or fairly against your regular line and you never considered how poorly designed the line was to begin with.

I borrow my final statement from a fellow disgusted customer who said -
I am a professional woman with a secure job and no kids. I have a good amount of disposable income and I love to shop, but it seems that Old Navy does not have space for me in its stores. I will be exercising my capitalist prerogative to not shop Old Navy again, until I can feel welcome to shop for clothes in my own size in your stores.

*Now write your letter!

When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road, turn out the lights, get out and look up at the sky
And I do this to remind me that I’m really, really tiny
In the grand scheme of things and sometimes this terrifies me
But it’s only really scary cause it makes me feel serene
In a way I never thought I’d be because I’ve never been
So grounded, and so humbled, and so one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything
Rock and roll is fun but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky
Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye
When I saw Geneviève I really liked it when she said
What she said about the giant and the lemmings on the cliff
She said ‘I like giants
Especially girl giants
Cause all girls feel too big sometimes
Regardless of their size’
When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road and run and jump into the ocean in my clothes
And I’m smaller than a poppyseed inside a great big bowl
And the ocean is a giant that can swallow me whole
So I swim for all salvation and I swim to save my soul
But my soul is just a whisper trapped inside a tornado
So I flip to my back and I float and I sing
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything
So I talked to Geneviève and almost cried when she said
That the giant on the cliff wished that she was dead
And the lemmings on the cliff wished that they were dead
So the giant told the lemmings why they ought to live instead
When she thought up all those reasons that they ought to live instead
It made her reconsider all the sad thoughts in her head
So thank you Geneviève, cause you take what is in your head
And you make things that are so beautiful and share them with your friends
We all become important when we realize our goal
Should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole
And yeah, rock and roll is fun, but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky
Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye
And I don’t wanna make her cry
Cause I like giants