Sales Clerk Quotes in The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Gerry Jeffers: [shopping for clothes, trying another outfit with long white gloves] Do you like this one?

John D. Hackensacker III: Oh its lovely - but aren't the sleeves a little short?

Sales Clerk: [heavy French accent] Oh that is for the bracelet Monsieur - that is what we call the bracelet length.

John D. Hackensacker III: Oh - would you like a bracelet?

Gerry Jeffers: [Sales clerk nudges her] Wha... what kind of a bracelet do you mean?

John D. Hackensacker III: Any kind you like.

Gerry Jeffers: You mean with stones?

Sales Clerk: Certainly with stones, they are all the rage!

John D. Hackensacker III: Why not, what kind of stones do you like?

Gerry Jeffers: Well...

Sales Clerk: Red - that is all the rage!

John D. Hackensacker III: You mean like garnets?

Gerry Jeffers: Don't you think garnets are a little lifeless?

John D. Hackensacker III: Oh...