Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills has a very lenient return policy. As a
result, many wealthy women buy expensive dresses, wear them once, have them dry
cleaned, and then return them to the store for a full refund.
After a woman returned a very expensive designer dress, another woman bought
the same dress. She returned the dress two weeks later after she broke out
in a horrible rash while wearing it. She went to the dermatologist who had
to treat her skin for exposure to formaldehyde. She sent the doctor's bill
to Neiman Marcus.
To prevent a possible lawsuit, Neiman Marcus tracked down the dress to the
first woman who admitted that her mother had wanted to be buried in that same
dress. Since the woman did not want to bury such an expensive dress, she
got the dress back from the mortician after the funeral service and returned it
to the store.
Apparently the second woman had been exposed to formaldehyde that soaked into
the fabric from the corpse.
