Customers upset over Target's plus-size dress offered in the 'Manatee Gray' color
It's a plus-size flap over a plus-size product.
Customers upset over Target's plus-size dress offered in the 'Manatee Gray' color
Esther Lee, Philly.com
It's a plus-size flap over a plus-size product.
Mega-retailer Target found itself in a wee bit of predicament after self-proclaimed "digital maven" Susan Clemens stumbled upon a plus-size maxi dress in a dark gray hue described as "Manatee Gray" on its website. In contrast, the standard-size maxi dresses offered in that same color were described as "Dark Heather Gray." Clemens immediately called out Target for the ill-named product via Twitter, and the retailer promptly apologized for the inadvertent flap.
When asked by Forbes if this was intentional, or an employee's idea of a cruel joke, a Target spokesman retorted, "absolutely not." He added, “This was an unfortunate oversight and we’ll take it into consideration moving forward.”
In Target's defense, the "Manatee Gray" hue is available for a number of products across its website - not only applicable to plus-size articles of clothing. Also, manatees - as seen in the accompanying photo - are adorable. So consider this a crisis averted for Target, and a note to retailers to consider their colors!
What the. Plus sized women get "Manatee Grey" while standard sizes are "Dark Heather Grey." @target #notbuyingit twitter.com/suZen/status/3…
— Susan Clemens (@suZen) April 3, 2013
And the color for extra plus size is Grey Whale?
— Palestra Jon- People need to get a life.— Smokey
- Nothing better to do with her time?— cloudkitt
- Nothing better to do with yours? It's a STYLE section article. Not International News. Jesus! — phillis82
- Also available in Moose brown, Heifer brown and Hippo brown. I wonder why the Plus-Size are $2.99 cheaper? Seems like there would be more fabric used?
- C'mon guys its not their fault. No exercise, laziness, and extremely poor eating habits is a disease. They can't help it.— Jackson4011
- Who actually calls themselves a "digital maven"?— roguefiftyone
- If the moo-moo fits,,,,,,— CiceroSpuriousDeodatusTheSecond
- And NWBeach - the reason it's less is supply-demand. Most women in this country are exceptionally heavy. (OK, not just women, most amerikans are blubberous)...You got a better than half chance that most would need the manatee size.....— CiceroSpuriousDeodatusTheSecond
- What happened to just calling something "grey", "blue", "red", etc? What's with the adjectives?— sashalily
- If it looks like a manatee and farts like a manatee, what is wrong with calling it a manatee?????— unbelieveable!
