--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Old Navy Explains Why It Charges More for Women's Plus Sizes by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 12, 2014 5:01 PM UTC  An Old Navy clothing store is seen in Springfield, Virginia,/AFP/Getty Images) An Old Navy clothing store is seen in Springfield, Virginia,/AFP/Getty Images)SAUL LOEB—AFP/Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 12, 2014 5:01 PM UTC Old Navy is under fire for its double standards when it comes to plus size clothing prices. While men pay the same price for regular and larger sizes, women get charged up to $12 to $15 more for plus sized items. Almost 20,000 people have signed a [petition](https://www.change.org/p/gap-inc-stop-up-charging-for-women-s-plus-sized-clothing) asking Old Navy to change its practices. 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"}}]}] ```