lolz sexism (& metrosexualism if you want to go there...)

[oxymoronia]

Women's taste in men reflects economy

"The recession will see the demise of the metrosexual," Mr Salt said

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[merle_]

"In a boom the hemline was likely to rise, but in a recession the hemline was likely to fall"

Hmm. In my meager one year of experience in the business district of San Francisco, hemlines are more closely tied to weather.

It is one of the very few things I enjoy about summer. ;-)

[oxymoronia]

Hahaha, my skirts actually get shorter in winter, since that's when you can wear colourful tights and opaque pantyhose.

[ext_90340]

There was a period when there was a strong statistical correlation between American skirt lengths and various measures of economic performance. Some people treated the correlation as obviously spurious; various explanations were offered; a few loons seemed to think that skirt lengths significantly caused the performance of the economy.

When last I knew, the correlations seemed to have broken-down badly. I hadn't paid much attention to them before then, and paid even less after that.

[merle_]

Some book I read suggested that most fashion-related things (and quite a few economic things) are cyclical in nature, with cycles of twenty or forty years (which I suspect matched generation gaps, which have changed over the years). Not absolutely, of course, but that trends tended to follow such cycles. It suggested that hemlines just happened to coincide but that there was no viable causation.

If people really thought short skirts caused a better economy, clearly they should outlaw skirts over a certain length...

[oxymoronia]

If people really thought short skirts caused a better economy, clearly they should outlaw skirts over a certain length...

Ahh, so women are heading to jobs in the adult entertainment industry not because the recession has made it difficult to find employment, but because they're being altruistic and trying to salvage the economy by boosting morale... ^_^

[merle_]

But of course! It's just like WW2 American women, who are well documented in posters as wearing very tight and skimpy clothing while working in factories to support the war effort.

And the number one priority these days is the economy, so.. oh, fine, I'll give in on this idea. ;-)