French Government Strikes Down 200-Year-Old Pants Ban for Women
Source: PRI's The World
BY TRACI TONG ? FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Ladies of Paris no longer have to fear being arrested for wearing pants. A 200-year-old law preventing Parisian women from wearing trousers, has been struck from the books.
The law was passed in November 1800 prohibited Parisian women from “dressing like a man” unless she received permission from the local police.
Host Marco Werman talks with New York Times’ Paris-based Elaine Sciolino, who credits the new Socialist government under President Francois Hollande with the law’s revocation.
Scoliono says the there had been attempts to modify the law in 1892 and 1909 that would have allow women to wear trousers if they were holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse.
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revocation."
CUE THE VONAGE THEME!
And before you start laughing at them, remember that interracial marriage wasn't completely legal in America until 1968.
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that's for sure.
in school. That was US school. We used to wear them under our skirts when it got really cold, then take them off when we got to school.
As I recall, culottes gave us our *in* to begin changing those rules. They gained great popularity as they become ok to wear.
I wore pants during most of the two weeks I was in Paris. 
