Global societal trends can be measured by zombies

There’s one thing guaranteed to make a trends watcher happy, and that’s a daft correlation. Never mind hemline indexes and all that jazz, how about creating a chart that demonstrates that major society upheavals are somehow connected to trends in zombie movie production. Simply wonderful.

Down and dowdy

Ostentation has always been subject to disapproval by middle Britain (aka Daily Mail readers), but with attitudes such as intolerance and jealousy becoming more acceptably mainstream, even the appearance of ostentation is becoming subject to negative comment.

Are we really that miserable? Don’t we want to see people flounce and preen and have a good time? Apparently not, according to this article from the Evening Standard. Out goes the glamour as we turn into grumpy old farts.