I e-mailed J. Crew about my issue with their petite pricing and here's what they said the first time around:
Typically petite sizes in the clothing industry are not priced lower than regular and talls. But very often, talls are priced higher due to more material being used.
Ummmm WHAT??? And petites and regulars use the same amount of material? (I'm not looking at it from a number size perspective, but a length POV...see my replies to Anonymous in the original post about coats.) So I wrote back to them, using my "Starbucks" Analogy, indicating to them that a Tall latte costs less than a Grande and a Venti costs more. Here's what they said the second time around:
We don't charge less for petites, because, technically, they cost more to make than our regular sizes...
Okay....go on...
While all we have to do to make a tall size is to add some extra material, petites require complete re-proportioning of all measurements, not just length, creating more work for our designers and manufacturers - work which of course, costs money...
I always thought that tall sizes were proportioned differently as well...you know, longer rise and stuff like that...I guess I'm wrong....
So while we could hypothetically charge more for petite sizes as well, we choose not to, probably because they do, as you stated, require less material.
Why thank you! I'm glad to hear that I'm not being ripped off!
I guess the replies weren't much of a surprise, considering what was discussed between Anonymous and me on Saturday's post, but what do you think? Do you agree with J.Crew? And why do YOU think they only up the tall prices for coats and not for any of their other products?
