AN OPEN LETTER TO OLD NAVY

Dear Old Navy:

What makes you think that every size 12 or a size 10 wants the new fasionble tears and rips in her jeans? You obviously have your pulse on the edge of 2006 summer fashion. You must know more about these things than I do. But then here's what I don't get. Why do only the tall people deserve to have their pants fall neatly over their sandals? Your sales associate today informed me (after 40 minutes of searching in vain for this exact pair of jean) that Old Navy does not manufacture the Flare Jean in "short," only the Bootcut Jean. Now your Bootcut is great, if you're wearing boots and want a leg that is going to end at your ankle. But, it's summer, and we short people, we wear sandals, too, you know?

Why can't we have flared short pants? Not gigantic elephant pants that make us look like our legs disappear into the ground. We don't need help looking shorter than we are. We KNOW not to wear CRAZY flares. We don't want that. But your bootcuts don't work for sandals. We want our pants to grace our shoes like the tall ones do...but apparently, you don't want us to buy those pants from you. So we won't. We've been to Maurices and we know that they have cute "short" jeans, too, for about the same price. Old Navy <-----short discriminators.

Thanks for nothing these days,

"short" sized 10/12