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A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.
By Devorah Lauter, Paris3:32PM GMT 03 Feb 2013

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."
The law was kept in place until now, despite repeated attempts to repeal it, in part because officials said the unenforced rule was not a priority, and part of French "legal archaeology."
In July however, in a public request directed at Ms Vallaud-Belkacem, Alain Houpert, a senator and member of the conservative UMP party, said the "symbolic importance" of the law "could injure our modern sensibilities," and he asked the minister to repeal it.

SOURCE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9845545/Women-in-Paris-finally-allowed-to-wear-trousers.html

Woah! Never knew it was against the law for women to wear trousers in Paris until now.

Tank God ...finaly ma galfrnd is coming with me.....

nice one that's a welcome development

Wooowww so wat ve dey bin wearing all dis while Dey rili missed a lot oooo*winks*

Am going back to Paris

luc26: Wooowww so wat ve dey bin wearing all dis while Dey rili missed a lot oooo*winks*

what did they miss exactly

What a law never knew it existed

so such a law exist in France, intresting that the media didnt make it an issue like women not driving cars in saudi arabia. and no female activist in france all this years? hmm

An what difference would this make to women?

la furia: so such a law exist in France, intresting that the media didnt make it an issue like women not driving cars in saudi arabia. and no female activist in france all this years? hmm

It's not in the Arab world, if it was, it would have been in the news for decades

Only trousers hw about pant,I nor fit shout...

BON! BON!! GOOD!!! My female siblings can now visit me in paris..wao..so bon indeed

I lived a few months in Paris between 2009-10. Women wear trousers even black women and Arabs.

Sharia in paris? Op re u sure it is nt parsia (iran)

emmyid: BON! BON!! GOOD!!! My female siblings can now visit me in paris..wao..so bon indeed

You mean your female siblings are allergic to wearing skirt or gown?

such a sexist and chauvinistic law even in france? i'm

Is this good news?

Welcome to the world PAris!!!


#uwa n'achozi ikpu ooo!!!

.@topic must be another Paris
The one I know is full of ladies with trousers.

Whoa! I never knew women don't wear trousers in Paris before now. *surprised*

Never knew France was so backward. Good dev though.

this is hard to believe, I've only been to paris in cold seasons and wore nothing but trousers!!

They certainly helped alot of women make heaven but now the amount of women going to hell from paris will increase.

Paris of all places? This sounds like a surprise to me oooo. Ok sha.

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You mean your female siblings are allergic to wearing skirt or gown? [4 God sake they are not Nuns, trouser is like a blessing 2 showcasing their figure eight]

la furia: so such a law exist in France, intresting that the media didnt make it an issue like women not driving cars in saudi arabia. and no female activist in france all this years? hmm

these mainstreem medias are more interested on attarking Arab world while forgetting other side of the stories like this one

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You mean your female siblings are allergic to wearing skirt or gown? [4 God sake they are not Nuns, trouser is like a blessing which showcases their power hips]

Women wear trouser in Paris everyday. Hope this isn't the ONION news again? mtcheeww

WHEN WILL NIGERIAN MEN BE ALLOWED TO WEAR SKIRT?