We didn’t know about the series, but now we’re here to tell you! Did you know there is a fashion study that analyzes high heels as an economic indicator? The bigger the jump, the bigger the global crisis?
Good or bad… have you seen the fever of the moment? Dazzling jumps, or rather big platforms are back thanks (thanks??) to Versace, reinforced by Valentino and now spread in all stores of the genre. And how is the economy? Bad, from bad to worse and not only in Brazil, but the whole world is recovering from the pandemic, facing other social and political issues and the result is chaos, inflation and high jumps.
And it was precisely an IBM study that analyzed this “Big Mac” index (ever heard of it?) in the reflection of high heels. Now let’s get down to the facts, after all, it’s more than theory. Do you know when the great milestone of the rise… of the dances was? The Great American Depression of 1929. It was in this century-long crisis that women saw in fashion a way to abstract and make the leap. After that, jump to the 70s and the oil crisis, and you know what dance became popular? Exactly those platforms we see today and those high and thick heels until the seventies.
To conclude, another great moment of economic intervention (rs), the real estate crisis of 2008 and this, already broadcast by the blogs, and that boom in high heels, remember? Did you know that the average height of women’s heels peaked at 17 centimeters during this economic crisis that rocked the US 14 years ago. Cut to 2011, a quieter economic period, and according to a survey of social media posts, that number has dropped to about 6cm.
And from fashion what is the relationship and the reason? It’s basically because of our need to get away from reality High heels refer to a certain escape, fashion works as an escape for difficult moments in the economy, so in life. What is curious and only feeds the old capitalism, we are in crisis and what do we do? We buy \o/
At the end of the day, in chilling eggs and taking up dancing, it’s simply fashion that drives culture, economics and, perhaps, physiotherapy, because it’s every big dance we see out there!
