Chloe Fall/Winter RTW 08Every once and a while even the most die hard fashionistas (like myself) give up reading fashion news for more bleaker territory. I’ve recently been stopping at Finance rather than clicking through to Style to get the scoop on the dire economic outlook. This downward spiral has got me thinking about another type of downward spiraling, specifically hemlines and how their length can predict the future economic situation (so the longer the hemline the worse off the economy and vice versa).

Ok, it’s sound nerdy, I know. Why is she wasting her time with this, you ask. But honestly this myth (?) has been wafting through the fashion industry like the scent of stale perfume. I want to get to the bottom of it and find out if fashion forebodes financial crisis.

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