--- title: Old Navy Explains for Charging More For Women's Plus Sizes, But Not Men description: Almost 20,000 people petitioned the company to stop canonical: https://time.com/3580891/old-navy-women-plus-size-price/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-12T17:01:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:32.858Z og:title: Old Navy Explains Why It Charges More for Women's Plus Sizes og:description: Almost 20,000 people petitioned the company to stop og:url: https://time.com/3580891/old-navy-women-plus-size-price/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8da8ad16c3ed6e32/6987685006f2c18588332321/457723228.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4761 og:image:height: 2678 og:image:alt: US-ECONOMY-OLD NAVY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Old Navy Explains Why It Charges More for Women's Plus Sizes twitter:description: Almost 20,000 people petitioned the company to stop twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8da8ad16c3ed6e32/6987685006f2c18588332321/457723228.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Old Navy Explains Why It Charges More for Women's Plus Sizes > Sponsored content. 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Renee Posey, [who started the Change.org petition,](https://www.change.org/p/gap-inc-stop-up-charging-for-women-s-plus-sized-clothing) notes that while she was “fine paying the extra money as a plus-sized woman, because, you know, more fabric equals higher cost of manufacture,” she was alarmed that the same standards didn’t apply to men, inciting that “Old Navy is participating in both sexism and sizeism, directed only at women.” Old Navy’s explanation? A spokesperson for Gap Inc., the retailer’s parent company, issued a statement to _TIME_ (among [other outlets)](http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/old-navy-explains-why-it-charges-more-for-womens-plus-size-c): --- > “” --- So more detail equals more money. Spokesperson Debbie Felix didn’t respond to questions about Posey’s rebuttal about why the extra cost doesn’t apply to regular women’s clothing that includes the same fabrics and “figure-enhancing elements.” A look at Old Navy’s petite section shows that the retailer charges the same amount for its [smaller sizes](http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=647190032&vid=3&locale=en%5FUS&kwid=1&sem=false&sdReferer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldnavy.com%2Fproducts%2Fpetite-clothing.jsp) as it does its [“regular”](http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=85732&vid=1&pid=647190032) sizes. \[[BuzzFeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/old-navy-explains-why-it-charges-more-for-womens-plus-size-c)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3580891/old-navy-women-plus-size-price/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3580891/old-navy-women-plus-size-price/"},"headline":"Old Navy Explains Why It Charges More for Women's Plus Sizes","datePublished":"2014-11-12T17:01:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:32.858Z","description":"Almost 20,000 people petitioned the company to stop","url":"https://time.com/3580891/old-navy-women-plus-size-price/","keywords":["Living","Newsfeed","Body Image","fashion","controversy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8da8ad16c3ed6e32/6987685006f2c18588332321/457723228.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8da8ad16c3ed6e32/6987685006f2c18588332321/457723228.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-ECONOMY-OLD NAVY","caption":"US-ECONOMY-OLD NAVY","creditText":"SAUL LOEB—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3580891/old-navy-women-plus-size-price/","name":"Old Navy Explains Why It Charges More for Women's Plus Sizes"}}]}] ```