She was wearing a Donna Karan dress and sandals. I’ll bet it wasn’t an off the rack dress. Clerks in stores like the one involved in this situation can spot expensive clothes and accessories a mile away. I’ll bet the sandals were really really expensive as well.
She’s given two stories about what she was wearing. The only one you can believe at this point is the store clerk. A frumpy bag lady is still a frumpy bag lady no matter what she was wearing.
Oprah does not look like Oprah to an American when she’s three times her smallest size and is wearing no makeup. Imagine what she looks like to a Swiss sales clerk.
Oprah was looking to promote her movie about racism, so she went to a place where no one knew her and made up a story about being treated badly because she was black.
And it worked.