Bold Fashion Choices--Archie Repeats Itself

Sometimes, when a) you control a vast comic book empire, and b) 70% of your jokes are based on ridiculing young women for their fashion choices, you're just naturally going to end up with similar jokes in proximity to each other.

Sometimes, though, you wonder if coincidence is enough to explain it.

Take, for example, December 1970, when multiple Archie books were seemingly obsessed with the midi-skirt:


Or take June 1971, when two separate Archie-verse comics made exactly the same fashion joke:


Seriously, was there an editorial meeting where the boss said, "Make this joke on your cover" and two different cover creators thought he was talking to them??