Yes I caught that too. Even adjusting for inflation I bet Elizabeth Taylor didn't spend that kind of money on shoes and skirts in 1958.
A "real" 1950s girl would have gotten her clothes at Penney's. Maybe Gimbel's if she was "rich".
$250 now is $31.18 in 1958 dollars.
I suspect the numbers aren’t too far off.
Or, if she lived in Minneapolis, at the Three Sisters
I made my own skirts and dresses in the fifties. Many of us did. I enjoyed sewing then, I still do, and my clothing was one of a kind.
In Whittier, Calif., a real 1950's girl living in the latter part of the decade would, indeed, have gotten a lot of her clothes at Penney's in the Whittier Downs Mall on Washington Blvd. just west of Broadway. This store was smaller than a modern supermarket and not at all like the Penney's stores in the big malls of today. If she wanted to spend more money, she would have gone to Myer's in downtown Whittier. If she wanted to find Myers in December, 1960, she could look for the big gold balloon floating above the store that was visible for miles.
If she wanted more variety, she would have had to go all the way to downtown LA, about 23 miles away to the six-story May Company on Sixth and Hill. While shopping there, she would likely be wearing one of her better outfits as well as a hat. If she was hungry, she could eat at the cafeteria in the store or the Italian Kitchen across the street. On her way home, she could get fine Mexican food at the El Poche Cafe in San Gabriel or at Ozzie's, a diner on Slauson at the Santa Ana Freeway, which opened in 1957 and is the only one of these eateries that still exists.