The Paleo diet explained
20 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: fads, fashions, food snobs, The Great Escape
Why were 1970s fashions just so bad, so loud?
23 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: fashions, The Great Enrichment
My explanation is the rapid income growth in the 1950s and 60s caught fashion designers short.
Comparing different income growth series 1900-2010 bit.ly/195NbKb http://t.co/9Uazhmayd4—
Catherine Mulbrandon (@VisualEcon) August 18, 2014
Up until the 1970s, and the swinging 60s in London where a tastes of that, clothing design for the masses is very much functional. It took 10 to 15 years for the fashion designers to work out how to respond to this sudden increase in demand for clothing as an expression of individual identity.
By the 1980s and 1990s, people were able to dress with distinction in finely cut clothing without the need to be gauche and loud.
The supply of facial hair over the centuries
03 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: fashions
"Frequencies in whisker forms" — a history of men's facial hair: thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015… http://t.co/PfDZSoVBtH—
(@SocImages) April 25, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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