Gap: What were you thinking?

I am working on the second post on the "mythology for kids" topic. In the meantime, I felt compelled to write a short note on a recent experience we have had with a purchase at Gap.Like most middle class urban folks living in the US, we have shopped quite a bit at Gap. We have started leaning more towards Banana Republic in the last few years due to much better and robust material used in their products and also due to their sizing and design which works well for us. Gap, the parent company of the eponymous store and also Old Navy and Banana Republic has kept the brands distinctly separate, design and price wise. Gap has fallen off our radar more and more as they have trended towards addressing people with not so human sizes and dimensions. This seems to be a trend all over the place and more so at Gap and Levi's. It is like the world decided to go skinny almost overnight.Anyways, we dropped by a local Gap outlet store where a nice Pajama set stood out for our 3 yr old. It looked awesome and I picked it up assuming an expensive pajama set at Gap would fit and last much longer than our kids purchases at Children's Place or Carters where they are cheaper. A customary prewash later, I decided to put it on the little guy. Imagine to my surprise that I could not squeeze his hands or his legs into it. The neck was wide enough but the fit for the arms were so tight, only a 2 year old which was less than 10 percentile of its weight and height could have gotten into it. The pants were worse. It took me a good 3 minutes to get the toes to come out of the snug fit. Any parent will know how hard it is to keep a 3 year old standing in a place while you try to squeeze in a pajama. It was awful. Before you start thinking that I have a bigger than usual child, let me assure you that most of his 2Ts (dresses and pjs) fit him extremely well. He has been called thin by every grandmother, his or others almost all his life. So if he has trouble fitting in his size pjs, the rest of the world will too.And the problem doesn't end there. Oh, it doesn't. The pants are designed for the now popular "skinny" style urban kid. Or so I think. His butt is hanging out of his pi's almost entirely all the time leading me to believe that it was designed much like the denim Gap sells to teens. Expensive and woefully tight at the wrong places. To ensure that it was not just me, I visited their website for reviews on similar looking pi's and lo and behold- sizing complaints!What was Gap thinking when they designed, approved and manufactured these pi's and priced them thus?. Their product description describes the snug fit as a design choice to avoid fire accidents. But that doesn't mean it has to be so tight that only half of the kid can fit in. Maybe they should charge half the price as their competitors then. After all they are using half the material to make it.Overall, the experience leaves a bad taste in the mouth and rest assured we are not shopping for kids clothes at Gap in the future.