Is fashion in clothes an indicator of politics and economics anymore?

[KnopkaPixie]

I think a lot of us can make the association with 80's fashion being big, bold and business is booming. Gordon Gecko, greed is good etc. There's lots of other historical examples as well which are probably much more meaningful.

I'm talking about both male and female fashion trends here as well.

But is society so diverse and in so many different pockets now to make economic and political analysis via fashion meaningless now?

Isn't the whole "quiet luxury" look meant to come from the post Covid, cost of living era, with wealthier people not wanting to look out of touch showing off big brands?

Could be but if you look at pictures of Carolyn Bessette (JFK Jr's wife) or even Princess Diana from the 1990's some of their outfits would fit the quiet luxury trend even today and not look very dated. Mind you, the 90's were an economic downturn after the 80's so you may well have a point.

I've noticed that the cut of mens' suits lately seem to have taken a 1950's turn.

The man bun seems to have disappeared which was a bit of pre Covid decadence. I can't remember the last time I saw one. My stepmum is a hairdresser and she does quite a lot of perms on young men lately. Who knows what that means in geo politics?

Keir Starmer gives off a late 1940's early 1950's look to me. Something about the hair and glasses. Or possbly early 1980's because everything comes around at least twice.

In the past skirt lengths used to reflect the economy. Very short skirts indicated a boom and long skirts reflected a depression.

I sort of wanted to say that in my original post. The old skirt length indicator. Does it still ring true? Is it more subtle now but still there?