Congratz, women of Paris.You may legally wear pants now.

Penguin · 02-04-13, 08:24 AM

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Paris: A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.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".
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Now even without riding bicycles or horses...

I love ridiculous old laws.

Jimbuna · 02-04-13, 09:05 AM

Crazy old laws:

Until 2005 you could sell a newspaper on a Sunday but not fish and chips in the UK.

Herr-Berbunch · 02-04-13, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Crazy old laws:

Until 2005 you could sell a newspaper on a Sunday but not fish and chips in the UK.

It's illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

Or what!!!

AVGWarhawk · 02-04-13, 09:56 AM

200 years of women trying to get into pants. 200 years of laws trying to take the pants off of them.

Mork_417 · 02-04-13, 10:02 AM

Crazy old laws are a hoot!

Armistead · 02-04-13, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by FloppyRat

Crazy old laws are a hoot!

They started in the bible.

Garion · 02-05-13, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Crazy old laws:

Until 2005 you could sell a newspaper on a Sunday but not fish and chips in the UK.

Ah well yoo see us heathens in Scotland have been enjoying fish suppers, mince pie supers with salt and chippy sauce on a Sunday for decades...

Very progressive us Scots

Mind yoo we were one of the last western countries to stop burning witches.....

But if it happened on a SUnday yoo couild still get a chippy tea

Well maybe not THAT progressive after all

Cheers

Gary

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