Manatee? I repeat, MANATEE? Target sells dresses in soft thin fabric, gathered at the neck and falling tent-like to the knees. But what I can’t believe is that they labeled those dresses, in size XX, as: “MANATEE Grey”! (especially when all smaller sizes, of the exact dress, were labeled something sweet and feminine!) John’s comment still is; “I like manatees, what’s the problem?”
It’s the flower problem: The kind of girl who would buy a soft flowing dress has priorities. Number one is to be a flower. Some flowers are frilly, some are superb in their simplicity; we can take our pick. But our aspiration is NEVER toward a puckered, blubbery, shapeless, slow moving, bobbing image!
What little girl says, “When I grow up I want to look just like a water balloon!”? Those big floaters are NOT my idea of the ideal couture.
Now manatees have been, and still are, one of my FAVORITE animals (along with slime mold!) But I have never wanted to look like one!!

And talking about a fashion statements; I’ve designed slender high shoes, with two heels. Each five inch high, somewhat slender, and the heals are separated by two inches, They support three long pointy toes, the tips of each separated by three inches. One pair= two shoes= four heals and six toes! You get a lot for your money! These lovely pedaries are featured in one of my new paintings and are designed to be manufactured in red or slime mold gold!!!  nancymauerman.com