Old Navy comes under fire from plus size customers AGAIN
Old Navy comes under fire from plus size customers AGAIN - this time over its 'discriminatory' website layout
A Reddit user posted a screen grab from the store's Canadian site which shows the plus size menu option as being double the size of all the others
In November, the retailer was forced to defend its decision to charge more money for its larger sizes
'Thanks Old Navy': Reddit user iChasedragons said that the menu layout on the brand's Canadian website was a cruel reminder that she 'takes up enough space for two categories'
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Old Navy is at the center of yet another controversy regarding its treatment of plus size customers.
Just six weeks after the retailer was forced to defend its decision to charge its female shoppers more money for larger sizes, a plus size customer on Reddit has slammed the store for making its online plus size menu option twice the size of every other menu.
'Thanks for reminding me that I take up enough space for two categories, Old Navy,' user iChasedragons commented alongside an image of the offending menu, which seems to only appear on the brand's Canadian website.
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The menu shows the different clothing categories offered in the online store, each of which feature an image of a model showcasing one of the store's chosen fashion looks.
However under the 'Women' and 'Men' options, which sit aside one another, the 'Women's Plus' link sits astride two columns, a layout which - once pointed out - has caused outrage with a number of other Reddit users.
Many users have gone on to question why the Women's Plus category requires its own menu option in the first place, when the men's plus size selection - Big and Tall - is just included in the main menswear category.
'The weird part is, Old Navy DOES have a Big and Tall selection in their men's clothing, but you don't really see it until you click on the item you want to buy,' user lilfunky1 pointed out.
'But the women's stuff is separated out as a whole new category of Women's Plus.'
According to one beady-eyed user, the reason for the bizarre menu layout is that the Canadian version of the website doesn't appear to offer a maternity section for women - the category which sits alongside Women's Plus on the main US site.
'[The Canandian site] don't have a Maternity category for some reason,' arnaudh explained.
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In November, New York-based merchandiser Renee Posey called for Old Navy to scrap its 'discriminatory' plus size up-charges, saying that the discrepancy between the prices for larger men and women is nothing other than 'straight up fat shaming'.
And while the store insisted that 'unique fabrics and design elements' were to blame for its female customers being charged more money for larger sizes - while the menswear designs remain the same price regardless of size - Ms Posey insisted that the explanation wasn't good enough.
lmao, as someone who was once extremely overweight fat people need to sit about this sort of thing. This is just an unfortunate and rather ironic coincidence.
'Thanks for reminding me that I take up enough space for two categories, Old Navy,' user iChasedragons commented alongside an image of the offending menu, which seems to only appear on the brand's Canadian website.
Plus Sizes should be included alongside all the other size clothes for that Gender. This is dehumanizing.
Should Toddler Girls, Girls, and Women be put into one category, too? They're all the same gender. Hell, if there were no plus size option, wouldn't Old Navy come under fire for not using a plus sized model?
lmao, as someone who was once extremely overweight fat people need to sit about this sort of thing. This is just an unfortunate and rather ironic coincidence.
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Originally posted by Citrus
Isn't it double the size because it doesn't have a companion category and they want the layout to look even?
Exactly this. The fact that they didn't even stop to think that maybe they did it like that for aesthetic reasons rather than trying to throw some subtle, passive agressive shade at fat people. Like
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Originally posted by Can't_M!ss_This
Old Navy? Forget being fat or heavy, cry about being poor
The fact that they didn't even stop to think that maybe they did it like that for aesthetic reasons rather than trying to throw some subtle, passive agressive shade at fat people. Like 
