up
up
up
they did rise
the skirt lengths
in the sixties
were
up
up
high

the stock market
was in step
with the high skirt lengths
it powered
and surged
up
up
high

the outlook back then
had a light of boon
bright and positive
was the tune

fast forward to 2008
the outlook at that time wasn't too great

the stock market fell
there was an air of doom
skirts were more austere
in their length of gloom

money was tight
the hemlines more restrained
the world of finance
had become more constrained

stock exchanges
and
skirt lengths
have cyclical phases
one year
they
rise high
the next year
they're down
on a flat lining lie