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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They haven't been paying attention for long enough to make such a prediction.

The waist height vs time function is approachable to a sinusoidal function with a period of about 20 years.

[–] akilou 10 points 1 year ago

This is the correct answer. It's sinosoidal and the frequency has to stay low enough that the time between peaks and troughs will necessitate that people continuously buy jeans and can't reuse the ones from the prior peak or trough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Right. Who else remembers when bell bottoms came back what, 18 years ago?