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- ↑ James, Andrea (April 25, 2008). "Hemlines doing their part for the economy: tough times call for short skirts". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ↑ Tamar Lewin, The hemline index, updated, International Herald Tribune, October 19, 2008
- ↑ See also Henrietta Prast "Fashionomics", Wilmott Magazine , June 2005, who cites Paul Nystrom in his 1928 monograph, The Economics of Fashion as the source of the theory.
- ↑ "The Surprising Reason Why Skirt Lengths Have Changed Throughout History". InStyle. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ↑ Marjolein van Baardwijk; Philip Hans Franses (2010). "The hemline and the economy: is there any match?" (PDF). publishing.eur.nl. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
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