Old Navy Tall Sucks
Posted November 12th, 2008 by MegI ordered some button up shirts from Old Navy’s Tall Collection and when they arrived I thought they mistakenly sent me shirts from their Kids department. Seriously. The size was not too tight but the shirt was shorter than any shirt I have ever seen before. It reached about 5-6 inches above my hip. I was in disbelief. There was no mistake though, the tags said “Tall” on them. I sadly packed them back up and filled out the return information. Even though they will refund me, I still have to pay for shipping. Shipping I didn’t want to pay for, but had no choice. Why? Because it seems like all the Tall collections are only sold online. I guess maybe someone forgot that tall people usually have legs and some of them like to wear clothes. Thanks for nothing, Old Navy. I will not be a returning customer.
Seriously. I just want to scream to the world how happy I am that more clothing stores are carrying their clothes in TALL sizes. My torso is long and when I try on shirts from places like J. Crew it looks like a (polo) belly shirt from the 90s; it is awful. But now stores (at least online) like Banana Republic, Anthropologie, Old Navy, J.C. Penny, J.Jill, Lands End, carry a tall selection! Although it’s only a few, rather preppy stores, it’s still something! Someone finally realized that ALL women like to shop no matter what their size (and that not everyone has stumps for trunks). I get the fact that it’s not easy for anyone, petite people have it rough too, and so do plus sizers… and everyone else that falls in between, on the sideline, out of the box, or whatever. But nobody has ever cared about the tall people before. So this is