Looking for the point of seemingly pointless research.

“Well-dressed women get better service at clothing stores,” says the press-release headline.

For a stylish columnist such as myself, particularly one who is seeking the point of seemingly obvious research, this is like a red rag to a bull. Don’t even start me on the way I was treated at stores on Fifth Avenue the other day when I happened to be in my sweatpants. It was worse than that scene from Pretty Woman.

Read the column here.