![]() ![]() Most of us trust psychiatry to remain immune to fads. Take, for example, the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. But what of more empirical, utilitarian domains? Surely doctors hypothesize independently of whatever forces drive style. With prosperity come optimism and tolerance for risk women are emboldened to show off a more daring length of leg. Fashion, as the now familiar "hemline index" suggested, is socially determined. Norton & Company £20.00, Virago Press Ltd.īack when Zelda Fitzgerald, her skirts wet from diving into public fountains, was accelerating from madcap toward outright madness, a Wharton School economist named George Taylor made the seemingly fey observation that hemlines rose and fell with the stock market, proposing a causal connection between two presumably separate spheres of human enterprise. Mad, Bad and Sad Women and the Mind Doctors. ![]()
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