Women Can Now Wear Pants in Paris
Had a law against it for hundreds of years
Ladies of Paris, you no longer have to fear arrest for wearing trousers in the French capital.
It sounds très odd, but apparently a bylaw requiring women to ask permission from city authorities before dressing as "men" and donning trousers has been on the books for more than 200 years. On Jan. 31, the Telegraph reported, France's women's rights minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, declared the law effectively revoked, citing its incompatibility with France's constitutional equality rights.
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Have tourists ever been cited for breaking this law? I would think we would have heard of it before if they had.