14 DAY TRIAL // Fashion is usually no more than that: something that helps men and women look good, feel good, make a statement and express their original personality. eBay, though, has discovered that, in the case of women’s skirts, the hemline goes beyond fashion and can actually predict weather, as its length varies depending on whether it’s hot or cold, the Telegraph informs.
It’s normal for women to put on shorter skirts when the weather is scorching, but that’s not the beauty of this finding. The hemline varies with as much as three (sometimes even four) days before a significant chance in weather occurs, it has been claimed, which means the prediction occurs a long time before it’s announced on the traditional channels. Just recently, for instance, demand for very short skirts rose about 200 percent days before the heat wave struck.
“The rises and falls in the length of skirts are said to be a good way of forecasting what the weather will be like three days in advance, based on research at eBay. Analysts at the company said the length of skirts sold on the website becomes shorter several days before the weather changes for the better, and lengthens when colder conditions are due. On occasions, the trend is said to have predicted a shift in the weather before any advice has been issued by the Met Office using more traditional meteorological methods,” the Telegraph writes.
“We’re calling it mini skirt meteorology. If you want to know what the weather is going to be like in three days, just take a look at hemlines,” Ruth Szyszkowski of eBay jokes. Right now, for instance, the Met Office says the weather is heating up – and it does so based on real data and not by just looking at women’s hemlines. Towards the end of the week, there will be a change in temperature, which will go down by a few degrees, the British publication goes on to say.
Unfortunately, the Telegraph makes no mention of what eBay makes of this apparent capacity women have of telling how the weather will be like even before meteorological instruments can.