A week after Target faced backlash from the Internet over Photoshopped pictures with missing body parts, another major retailer is under fire for a picture of a pair of women's jeans with an impossibly wide gap between the legs.
Old Navy was called out by the blog Tumbler WTF Plus for a picture of "Women's Plus The Rockstar Jeggings" with a wide gap set underneath the crotch. A long, white space fills the spot's background.
"While some bodies at some points in time do naturally have thighs that don't touch at the top, it is a pretty arbitrary and unrealistic standard for most humans," Roxy wrote Monday on Tumblr.
"Most humans would have to do pretty heinous things to their body/mind to try to achieve this standard. It is neither pretty nor ugly nor an indication of value as a human or physical health or physical fitness."
Unlike Target's pictures, Old Navy uses mannequins for the plus-sized section of its website. Jezebel pointed out that Old Navy uses human models for the mainstream sizes.
Other plus-sized pictures also have oddly placed gaps between the legs, Jezebel reported.
Old Navy told Jezebel that the gap in the jeans photo is not a result of Photoshopping, but of pins that were used to fit the clothing to the mannequins.
"At Old Navy we strive to show our customers the most accurate representation of how product fits the body," the representative said. "This includes pinning garments on body forms to show how they will actually appear. While we do remove these pins in post-production, we do not use any photo-altering techniques to deliberately distort the actual look or fit of our product."
The white gap in the photos of the jeans now appears with a black background on Old Navy's website.
