Lord & Taylor — Purveyor of Fine Hooker Fashions?

The full page ad in Sunday’s New York Times offers an Ellen Tracy Trench for $150. There’s a color photograph, and the caption underneath says

THERE’S NOTHING NAUGHTY ABOUT BUYING THIS TRENCH… WEARING IT, HOWEVER, IS ANOTHER STORY.

Who might buy — and wear — a coat like this? I’m thinking that the target is, um, working girls. Am I wrong?

Here’s the picture. You decide.

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