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10 Feb 2013, 8:41 am

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Women in Paris finally allowed to wear trousers
  • A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.
On January 31, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, made it officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing trousers in the French capital.

The law required women to ask police for special permission to "dress as men" in Paris, or risk being taken into custody.

In 1892 and 1909 the rule was amended to allow women to wear trousers, "if the woman is holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse."

What a bizarre and archaic piece of legislation. This should have been removed long, long ago.



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10 Feb 2013, 10:07 am

Tequila wrote:
What a bizarre and archaic piece of legislation. This should have been removed long, long ago.


It must have been quite a sight to see women in trousers walking around carrying handlebars.

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10 Feb 2013, 8:34 pm

They could also walk around in trousers if they were carry horse reins.

That would make for an interesting art piece: a picture of women in trousers, who were carrying handlebars and horse reins as they walked around Paris.



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10 Feb 2013, 8:45 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
That would make for an interesting art piece: a picture of women in trousers, who were carrying handlebars and horse reins as they walked around Paris.


Neigh!



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10 Feb 2013, 9:57 pm

That would be the name of the piece!