Miniskirt influence?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/14/2014 11:15 PM, Baker, John wrote:
>  Mexico City, a psychiatrist wrote an article of some kind linking 
> the short skirts to fears of international conflict, and a wire 
> service reporter in Mexico City then wrote a humorous article based 
> primarily on the psychiatrist's piece.

Do I not remember miniskirts being correlated positively with 
economic booms?  Or was it negatively?  (More broadly, it was the 
raising or lowering of hemlines that was alleged to be associated 
with economic rises or falls.)

Joel

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