But they still didn't. I went into Neiman Marcus in Dallas in 1991, just to look around. I found a leather jacket, with red... I'm not even sure what to call it. Paint? It was a layer on top of the leather, not dye. It looked very tacky. And it was $1000. In 1991. Well, even in 1991, the middle class had a lot less expensive places to buy tacky-looking junk.
No, Neiman Marcus has always been an upper crust store with extravagant Christmas catalogs.