HOUSTON Target is calling it an unfortunate oversight, but many are offended after an online ad labeled the color of a dress Manatee Gray. A manatee is a very large sea mammal, alsocalled a sea cow.

Target has apparently stubbed its toe on a touchstone of obesity sensitivity with the color label for one of its plus-size dresses — manatee gray. It’s an odd choice of a color name, for sure ...

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 &quot ...

Target also apologized directly to Clemens, and to its 536,000 other Twitter followers, tweeting, "We apologize for this unintentional oversight & never intend to offend our guests. We've heard ...

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Target is doing some damage control after it described the colour on one of it's plus-sized women's dresses as "manatee gray." Maybe this wouldn't be much Canada’s not for sale.

US retailer Target has apologised for labelling a plus-sized dress after a rotund marine mammal. Uproar followed when a shopper tweeted, external a screengrab of the "Manatee Gray" dress from ...

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Target added that "manatee gray" is the name of a color used to describe many other Target products. But in this case, there were two buyers for the same type of dress who didn't communicate when ...