Get your flip flops out, you learn something new everyday.  From Daily Finance:

Historically, women’s heel sizes reach new heights when the economy is down. But come winter and spring, we’ll be seeing more women in kitten heels and flats, according to new data from IBM.  The findings are based on a very modern arbiter of trends: influential fashion bloggers.  Now a community of bloggers says that heels will be getting lower over the next two seasons. “What might be happening is that prolonged bad news makes people feel like acting more demurely, so heel heights come down,” Davis says.

In the 1920s, low-heeled flapper shoes gave way to high-heel pumps during the Great Depression, IBM notes. Decades later, platform shoes took center stage during the economic downturn and oil crisis of the 1970s, as women moved away from the low-heeled sandal trend of the late 1960s.   And after the dot-com bust of 2000, Sex and the City-influenced stilettos stole the spotlight from the low, thick heels of the 1990s that reflected the grunge look.

Is this true lady LIFERS, have your shoes been getting lower and lower?

Tagged as: economy, Fashion Bloggers, Flats, High Heels, IBM, Recession, Research, Trends, Women's Fashion