Skirts rise in line with booming economies.
If proof were ever needed that this country might belatedly be experiencing the 1980s, this is it. Prior to their separation in late 1989, the Trumps became Manhattan's shiniest couple as they clawed their way through a society both envious of and appalled by their behaviour. For Love Alone , a work of fiction the only equivalent of which was that produced shortly afterwards by model Naomi Campbell. To deal with the skirt issue first, lengths traditionally rise as economies improve. That skirts in Ireland have therefore not transmogrified into little more than thin belts should be a matter of some surprise.