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

CAMEROONPRIDE: what did they miss exactly

pure123: WHEN WILL NIGERIAN MEN BE ALLOWED TO WEAR SKIRT?

miss-sweety86:
never heard of any cases of women arrested for wearing trousers in Paris or elsewhere in France!!

Tayothinks: A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.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

Tayothinks: A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.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

pure123: WHEN WILL NIGERIAN MEN BE ALLOWED TO WEAR SKIRT?

great063: That's interesting.

neksummi: Is this good news?

Orikinla: And how does this affect the price of garri?

emmyid: 4 God sake they are not Nuns, trouser is like a blessing which showcases their power hips

pure123: WHEN WILL NIGERIAN MEN BE ALLOWED TO WEAR SKIRT?

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

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

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

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

Olu-Emma & Ass.:
Never knew France was so backward. Good dev though.

skak:


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