A keyring as chic and elegant as the little black dress - forever famous thanks to Audrey Hepburn...

... or like Darth Vader's robe!
There are also some "black" days. To learn more about two of them, let's travel to the United States of America.

Keyring 909095

Materials: Pesaro Leather, Metal
• 3 rings for keys
• Paper box included

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Same elegant model, different materials

BLACK THURSDAY

It was 24 October 1929 when the crash of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street triggered a crisis that spread around the world.
Ten years later, then US president F.D. Roosevelt realised that a change in the calendar of American holidays could have a tangible economic impact. To stimulate the economy, he moved Thanksgiving from the last to the fourth Thursday in November. The change may seem small, but it added an extra week to the pre-Christmas shopping rush. Which officially starts right after Thanksgiving.

Having a Thanksgiving Thursday off doesn't really motivate anyone to go back to work the next day, so...

BLACK FRIDAY

In the 1950s, it became extremely common in the US for people to call in sick on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The employers would take a loss and the "sick" would win a long weekend and head out en masse to do their first round of pre-Christmas shopping. In Philadelphia, this also coincided with the annual big event - a football game between the Army and Navy teams. The city was therefore overcrowded, which had to be managed by police officers who not only could not take time off, but also had to work overtime. It was them - overworked and unhappy - who coined the term that has become part of the culture and that we still use today - Black Friday.

Black Friday is now a public holiday in the majority of US states, and the shopping frenzy of the day has become a tradition that has spread across the world.