Some males may use a counter-strategy: they will deliberately dress below what their economic status would suggest, so as to discourage women who are just seeking a free ride.
I'm not sure of course, what percentage of males might do this, and it might fluctuate with the prevalence of wealth-seeking females. That is, when times are bad, we might end up seeing a GREATER percentage of men deliberately dressing down. This would, I imagine, be particularly true of those men who don't otherwise have difficulty attracting females. Cheers, Lawry On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Keith Hudson wrote: > 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://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 > > Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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