At 17:18 11/07/2012, Ray wrote:
Oh Keith, you're such an academic. What do you do for fun?:>))
Only re-telling what has already been well
researched. As for fun, much the same as you do,
I guess -- plenty of reading and writing. I can't
sing now (no breath) but I get out the old fiddle now and again.
Keith
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:39 AM
To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; Arthur Cordell
Subject: Re: [Futurework] When economy gets bad, women dress to impress
To Sarah Hill's question at the end of Carroll's article:
<<<<
What Hill would like to know and that may be
the subject of a future study is whether men
who do have good jobs will be looking for ways
to advertise that fact to women they want to date.
Perhaps if they have a good job in a recession
they might do things to advertise that, such as
wearing a flashy wristwatch or buying a fancy car.
>>>>
The answer is no. Single men already buy
personal status ornamentation (according to
their peer group's culture) as much as they can
afford whether in good times or bad. In bad
times, the fact that a male has a job is such a
plus that he doesn't really need to enhance it
with anything more than normal. In good times or
bad, any girl meeting an unattached man will
soss out within minutes whether he has a job and
roughly what his earnings are in order to fill
out the details suggested by his clothes and ornamentation.
Keith
At 16:02 11/07/2012, you wrote:
<http://tinyurl.com/ce2eowv>http://tinyurl.com/ce2eowv
http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/11/12644392-when-economy-gets-bad-women-dress-to-impress?lite
Putting on makeup to get a man may not be the
most feminist concept, but it may also be hard-wired into women's brains.
When the economy goes sour, women stock up on
products that can enhance their looks, a new study shows.
The reason is that women, consciously or not,
are seeking to make themselves more attractive
to the dwindling supply of men with good jobs, researchers say.
..
To see if the so-called lipstick-effect was
broader than just one company, Hill and her
colleagues examined 20 years of data
scrutinizing the relationship between
unemployment rates and sales of products that
could be used to increase attractiveness, such
as cosmetics, perfumes, and designer clothes.
I was expecting to find sales of these products
to at best be flat when unemployment was high,
she says. That would have been interesting
enough. But when we found that people were
actually spending more during times of high
unemployment, I thought that was fascinating.
See the entire article at
<http://tinyurl.com/ce2eowv>http://tinyurl.com/ce2eowv
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
<http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>http://allisstatus.wordpress.com
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com
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