Miniskirt influence?

[Baker, John]

Yes, hemlines get higher (i.e., skirts get shorter) when the economy improves and the stock market goes up, and vice versa.  The effect is particularly easy to observe for the period 1920 - 1970.  While it's possible that it's just coincidence, the current theory is that hemlines are affected by the ebullience associated with a strong economy or the low spirits associated with a recession.


John Baker


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Subject: Re: Miniskirt influence?

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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