French Say Non To Pantalon!
November 17, 2009 by Mark Glenning
Oh mon dieu! A law banning women in Paris from wearing trousers is still in effect, it has emerged.
The law banning women from wearing trousers was introduced in 1800 and ruled that any Parisienne wishing to dress like a man “must present herself to Paris’ main police station to obtain authorisation”.
An amendment in 1892 stated that trousers were permitted “as long as the woman is holding the reins of a horse”, and the law was further relaxed in 1909 when a clause was added to enable women to wear trousers whilst riding a bike.
The law has survived repeated attempts to abolish it – 1969 the Paris council asked the city’s police chief to abolish the law, but were refused.
The latest attempt was made in 2003, when a Right-wing MP from President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party appealed to the minister in charge of gender equality, but was rebuffed with the excuse that “disuse is sometimes more efficient than (state) intervention in adapting the law to changing morays.”
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