Target, Cosmopolitan take flak for confusing ‘plus size’ designations

Online shoppers noticed that the retail chain used a picture of a pregnant model to show off one of its plus-size items. Meanwhile, Facebook users thought a model in a Cosmo photo was well below plus-size.

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Though Cosmo posted the photo in November, it’s picking up steam again because of an open letter by columnist Tony Posnanski in The Huffington Post. He writes:

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