Target apologizes for "Manatee" label on plus-size dress

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NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers at a Target store in Brooklyn say a label that listed the color of a plus-size dress as "manatee gray" was insulting.
The label for the same dress in smaller sizes described it as "dark heather gray."
Target apologized for the label.
Michelle Ho, shopping at the store at Atlantic Terminal Mall, told the New York Post (http://bit.ly/16vmd9u ) that Target was "putting down one set of people over another" with the different labels.
Spokeswoman Jessica Deede called the labeling of the Mossimo-brand "Women's Plus-Size Kimono Maxi Dress" ''an unintentional oversight."
She said although manatee gray was a seasonal color, Target was "fixing the discrepancy." She said the item was removed from the company website.


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[Buzz Clik]

1. LOL!

[L0oniX]

2. LMFAO n/t

[dmallind]

3. I'm a fat bugger and I think Manatee Grey is a much better name.

My initial reaction was to think of a dress with a visible picture/script of a manatee permanently on it. I could see that perhaps being a bit jarring (although even then quite feasible for a person with the right kind of sense of humor; I wear "rhinos" shirts myself) but just to have it on the color label that you tear off? Who gives a fuck? Label all my clothing "obese lardass blue" if you want - if it fits, is comfy, and durable what could I care?

Surely buying a "plus size maxi-dress" in the first place is more galling to the image-obssessed sensitive types.

[Arugula Latte]

4. They should have been more sensitive and called it "Jumbo-the-Elephant Gray"

[AsahinaKimi]

5. or maybe

Hippo Grey... Rhino Grey... Brontosaurus Grey... Right Whale Grey.. I mean seriously... how insensitive can one get?
Stupid idiots.

[Cleita]

11. Oh dear!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. Dark Godzilla Gray

[kestrel91316]

6. Oh dear. Oops.

[jmowreader]

7. After "plus size kimono maxi dress" the name of the color is immaterial

Apparently "parachute with arm holes" was seen not to be quite insulting enough.

[Nye Bevan]

15. Actually, "maxi" refers to the style, not the size.

You can get a maxi dress in an XS or a size 2.

See, I do know something about fashion. Sometimes I amaze myself....

[Nye Bevan]

8. To be fair, it was better than "elephant ass gray" (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. mean but LOL, "Elephant gray"?

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. pic of dress

[JI7]

19. what does the manatee color one look like ?

[Apophis]

12. Haha.

Seriously?

[X_Digger]

13. Oh, the hue manatee! n/t

[jmg257]

14. HA! GREAT PUN!! Brilliant!

[Nye Bevan]

16. That *was* clever. Would have been a Duzy back in the day (nt)

[frylock]

18. !

[Enrique]

20. awesome