Hoochie Pants as barometer of marriage market: “Statistics don’t show, for instance, how many of those 32 million never-married men actually dream of their wedding days – or account for what Barber, in his paper, ‘Women’s dress fashions as a function of reproductive strategy, ’ describes as ‘the alternative reproductive strategies model according to which women vary the relative importance of careers and marriages depending on the importance of each as an economic strategy for supporting themselves and their children.’”

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