The "Terrible Thing" Bergdorf Goodman's Personal Shopper Does

"I don't know what I went to college for," Betty Halbreich says in a video profile created by The New Yorker. "I mean, it didn't teach me this." The "this" Halbreich talks about in the video is the skill set she's developed over her nearly 40-year career as a personal shopper for Bergdorf Goodman. She became the tony department store's very first personal shopper in 1976, and today, at 85, she's one of the longest-serving and oldest of Bergdorf's employees. It's a position that's part cheerleade...