American Apparel Won't Sell Schoolgirl Skirt Above Size 6
LatestAmerican Apparel has recently come under scrutiny for alleged hiring discrimination with its “full body, head-to-toe” employment policy. Customers, apparently, are not exempt: this skirt is among many items it refuses to sell to any woman over a size 6.
The “Poly-Viscose Pleated Schoolgirl Skirt,” $60, is only available in sizes XS, S, and M. Because a size 8 schoolgirl would offend the eyes of one Dov Charney, we suppose.
Among the other garments American Apparel does not make in any size above a Medium — which the company’s size guide defines as a dress size 4-6 — are these $20 tricot short-shorts, and these $46 nylon “Disco shorts”. And don’t think that they just mysteriously ran out of the larger sizes — when certain sizes in a given style sell out, they are typically marked “Unavailable” on American Apparel’s website, as, for example, with these shorts. The lack of any such mention of unavailability would seem to indicate that American Apparel never produced any of these styles in anything larger than a dress size 6.
Almost a dozen of the comments on the “Schoolgirl Skirt” point out this oversight: