An article by Christina Larson of the Washington Monthly, on Jan Whitaker's book "Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class".

Don't you just love it when Clipmarks connects the dots!

I just HAD to read the full article referred to by this clip to find the Salvador Dali
connection [...I'm on a Salvador Dali mission of discovery right now ...].

And here it
is plucked from the article!

In 1939, Salvador Dali was commissioned to design window displays for
Bonwit-Teller’s in New York (alas, the mannequins adorned with dirt,
insects, and dried blood lounging beside fur-lined bathtubs elicited
customer complaints).