Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must be livid. Turns out Paris still has a law on the books that prohibits women from wearing pants. That, of course, makes her world-class collection of pant suits worthless in the City of Lights.
The Telegraph UK reports this odd tale from the land of ungrateful frogs and women with hairy arm pits:
The rule banning women from dressing like men – namely by wearing trousers – was first introduced in 1800 by Paris’ police chief and has survived repeated attempts to repeal it.
The 1800 rule stipulated than any Parisienne wishing to dress like a man “must present herself to Paris’ main police station to obtain authorisation”.
In 1892 it was slightly relaxed thanks to an amendment which said trousers were permitted “as long as the woman is holding the reins of a horse”.
Then in 1909, the decree was further watered down when an extra clause was added to allow women in trousers on condition they were “on a bicycle or holding it by the handlebars”.
In 1969, amid a global movement towards gender equality, the Paris council asked the city’s police chief to bin the decree. His response was: “It is unwise to change texts which foreseen or unforeseen variations in fashion can return to the fore.”
The latest attempt to remove the outmoded rule was in 2003, when a Right-wing MP from President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party wrote to the minister in charge of gender equality. The minister’s response was:
“Disuse is sometimes more efficient than (state) intervention in adapting the law to changing mores.”
“They can kiss my ass,” Hillary reportedly muttered.
To which Nicolas Sarkozy responded, “Ce, ma cheri, serait un emploi à plein temps.”
Translation: That, my dear, would be a full-time job.”
Source: Telegraph UK
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Poor Ms Bill… Technically a burqa or niqab is not a pair of pants. Hilliary could try wearing one of those.
Oh, hold up! The French are moving to stop the radical Islamic movement in their country and are banning those garments.
Wait, when did the goddamn French become more proactive in their fight to stamp out radical jihad then we did? Oh, when the “Change You Can Believe In” started his tyranny.
As to if its the right course of action or excessive and infringing on civil rights and whatnot is a topic all to itself. The fact that the French would even try to start this issue and confront it publicly and have the issue be openly engaged with the public (the aim is to beat back jihad and extreme hardliners of Islam) is more then we seem to be doing. Taking notes Madame Secretary of State?
Dame Clinton is damned if she does and damned if she does not- there are many international laws that would require that she be as clothed as possible and not show any of her flesh; laws made specifically with her name drafted into the legislation. Something about visual hygiene and not wanting to scare the children and have birds drop from the sky dead at the sight of her legs.
I’d rather not see her at all. If I do have to look at her- at least let me see her in those ‘the 1970s never died’ pants suits over other choices she could pick, fashion wise. Really, who the hell has a stomach strong enough to view Hilliary Clinton in a miniskirt!?
Even Bill says, “Damn it Hillary! Put your pants back on… God!” This is Clinton we are talking about. The same guy who does not mind banging fat chicks for sport. If he is disgusted then you know it must be some awful, awful sight to gaze at…
Baguette anyone?
Maybe for Hillary ithey could relax the 1892 law such that “trousers are permitted as long as the woman rear looks like a horse”.