Trouser Ban Overturned!

 

Due to an obscure 1799 law still in place (but seldom enforced) ,women have  technically been restricted from wearing trousers in the French capital for more than 200 years. In May a group of French mps allowed  a proposal to remove the law, which states that if  a women in Paris wishes to ‘dress like a man’ she must obtain a special permission from the police. Though the odd law has been relaxed several times – an amendment permitted trousers as long as the woman was holding the reins of a horse and in 1909 it was allowed when on a bicycle- it has resisted the scrap heap. The Paris council has asked the city’s police to officially to declare the law defunct.