A look is always incomplete without some diamonds... © 'Pretty Woman', Touchstone Pictures | British Vogue

Pretty Woman. 1990. This scene was based on a real life experience by screenwriter J.F. Lawton. “I was in a secondhand suit, but it was a decent suit,” he recalled. “And I actually went into a men’s shop, and there was a male clerk there. I was looking around, and … he said to me, ‘What are you looking for?’ I said, ‘Oh, I just want to look around,’ and he said, ‘We have nothing here for you. You’re in the wrong place.’” Lawton didn’t get ‘revenge’ like Vivian does in the movie, but Pretty Woman