Turn signal flashing, Mrs. Jones carefully pulls her Buick up to your store and asks to see matching tables for her living room.

Miss Jones peels into the lot, glove box bursting with parking tickets, and asks if you have a red leather chaise for her bedroom.

Mrs. Jones does not wear white shoes after Labor Day or diamonds before dinner. Her furniture lines the walls of her room like soldiers. Her pictures, one per wall, are hung higher than the top of the artificial ficus. She is law-abiding to the core.

Miss Jones, on the other hand, wears seersucker on warm days in November. She mixes florals and animal prints with antiques and modern art. Rules to her are just “guidelines” and even those were made to be broken.

Should you push Mrs. Jones to rebel and mix up those end tables? Should you try to fetter Miss Jones from a fashion faux pas?

As a company, how do you merchandise your store for both women? As a salesperson, how do you adapt your personal style to her unique technique?