Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Finally, Paris puts on its culottes

One of France's oldest and most abused laws has finally been repealed, since the 7th November 1800 it had been illegal for a woman to wear trousers in Paris unless she had a permit allowing her to do so. Now all that red tape has been cut, shredded and put into a landfill just off the Peripherique.


Famous woman flouts the law

It's a shame in many ways because many a summers evening could be passed walking along the Rue de Remarque, and its environs, observing groups of Gendarmes forcing those trouser wearing members of the female population to disrobe unless they could wave something official in the face of said policeman or present themselves at the local nick to obtain authorization. Now, like the onion seller, the badger baiter and the off key accordionist they are part of Paris's yesterdays rather than its tomorrows. Of course it was possible for a lady (or female impersonator) to get round the law simply by riding a bike or a horse but I suppose the shortage of stabling facilities put an end to the former.

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