Every October there is one woman at the party whose costume makes everyone else's look like something grabbed from a gas station on the way over. Somebody leans in and asks where she got the tail. She smiles and changes the subject.
The judges stopped pretending it was a fair contest. She started in August, has not repeated a look in anyone's memory, and has never once explained herself, which is the part that unsettles people.
Not every question needs an answer. If you just thought of a friend with a secret or two, she has a place in Same Mermaids, More Bats.
When the tail is in the closet, the shirt has to say it for you. The Comfort Colors 1717 is a heavyweight 6.1 oz tee cut from 100% ring-spun cotton grown in the USA, garment-dyed and soft-washed so it already feels like a tide-worn favorite on the first wear (and preshrunk, so the fit holds from June to the cold-water months). It is the tee for the long business day that ends at the lake, and for the landlocked believer whose nearest ocean is a screensaver. Soft on the skin, sovereign in the room. Mermaid Dayz prints it for the woman who has a mersona and a mortgage.