The Children’s Place

Posted and reposting on Facebook my cousin’s comments to you and your company’s lousy response to my cousins concerns
There’s a problem when these healthy legs are labeled as «husky» and «plus». Below is my letter to The Children’s Place after our experience yesterday and their response. Please feel free to share as this is so sad for our girls.
My daughter is six years old. I have been shopping at your store since before she was born. I had come to really like your line of clothes for girls. They coordinated well, the fit was good and the clothes were durable. As my daughter has grown, more modest clothes have been important to me and I always could count on you to carry a line of clothes that were stylish, fit her well, were not too short on the leg, did not expose her midriff and did not scoop too low in the top. Every August, I shopped your sales, loaded up on new fall/​winter clothes for my daughter, earned my Rewards, returned a few weeks later to use my rewards and then followed the same protocol in the spring. Some years, my daughter grew a lot and I felt like I was visiting your store every time I turned around. She is a very tall (4 foot 5 inches) six year old. She is not fat, chubby or skinny. She has a healthy little girl body in terms of weight to height ratio and I try to harness the opportunities to help her embrace living healthy and loving her body. This year, shopping at your store has made instilling in her good body image extremely difficult. And, I made my last visit to your store last night.
I thought I would do some school shopping for my daughter when we were at the outlet last night. The biggest advertised item seemed to be jeggings. There were tables and tables of jeggings as we walked in the door and a whole wall of many more jeggings. My daughter likes jeggings as they are much more comfortable than jeans. She was excited to get cheetah print ones and other fun colors. I began digging for her size in every color and print and then realized that EVERY SINGLE PAIR was cut «super skinny.» I confirmed with two separate sales people that there was no other cut available and they confirmed that was true. My daughter desperately wanted to try them on because she was certain your clothes would fit her healthy body. What a sad night it was for all of us as I could not buy the pants my daughter wanted because she does not fall into the super skinny girl that you are catering to. Through tears, we had a discussion about healthy bodies and that your pants were not cut for a healthy body. I was a loyal customer of yours for seven years, spending hundreds of dollars every few months to keep my daughter in your clothes. What a sad day to realize that I must now find a new go-​to store to clothe my daughter, not because she has outgrown your clothes, but because your target audience is not healthy and I dare say that your company is not healthy by embracing this target audience either.
Children’s Place Response:
We appreciate the opportunity to address your concern. At this time we do not offer extended sizes in our retail or outlet locations, but our website does have several inventory lines (including jeggings) available in Plus and Husky size for a fuller fit. While these extended-​size items are not available in stores they may be returned to any Children’s Place retail location if you do not find them to your satisfaction. We are happy to provide the below webcode for free standard shipping if you do decide to shop with us online for these extended sizes…