Haircut or Hemline to predict the Economy?

First it was only the length of skirt hemline …. now Japan is trying to predict the state of economy through the length of women hair …. reminds me of “the human mind trying to see patterns where none exist”

“Japanese women start wearing their hair short when the economy is worsening and let it grow longer when times are getting better … the idea is similar to the long-standing theory that the wearing of shorter skirts is linked to economic prosperity.

One theory is that women adopted shorter hairstyles because in harder times they have less money to spend on hair care products …One major flaw, notes Loic Bizel, a French-born fashion consultant based in Tokyo, is that short hair can be even more expensive to maintain”