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Skellatrix
11/17/09

In reply to French Women Don't Get Slacks.
All this time Lady Gaga has simply been adhering to 19th century Parisian law. #paristrousers
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lilbobbytables
11/17/09

In reply to French Women Don't Get Slacks.
This proves my theory that Lady Gaga is a) a time lord, and b) stepping up the offensive on her War On Pants.

I will show myself out now. #paristrousers
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
11/17/09

@lilbobbytables: #paristrousers
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
11/17/09

In reply to French Women Don't Get Slacks.
I actually don't have too much trouble with that law. Those types are on the books everywhere. In Charlotte, NC it is illegal for women to appear in public wearing less than 16 yards of fabric and they're not supposed to wear red shoes in Charleston, SC. It's silly that they've never bothered to repeal it, but there are laws like that all over the place that just never got repealed. As long as no one is actually being arrested for wearing trousers in public I don't particularly care. #paristrousers
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LaComtesse
11/17/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I have no problem with these laws unless they're enforced. Like when I can't by liquor in my beloved homestate of CT on a Sunday, or how more than 6(?) women can't live together in MA. I just don't GET Blue Laws. As my husband says, "They're not like the laws of physics: you can change them!" #paristrousers
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
11/17/09

@LaComtesse: I do hate blue laws something fierce. I used to cashier at a grocery store and people would get all pissy about it, like I had some say in the matter. Our cash registers wouldn't even LET US ring up liquor Sunday mornings. Write your congresspeople!

Also, in Florida it's illegal to shower while naked. #paristrousers
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femme-bot
11/17/09

@LaComtesse: Some blue laws are nice. In Bergen County, NJ most stores are closed on Sundays. I work in retail, and I appreciate this. #paristrousers
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prestocaro fears the culling
11/17/09

@LaComtesse: Some laws, however, I wish would be enforced -- in some parts of TX it is illegal to spit on the sidewalk. I wade through about 3" of spit on my way out to my car on a thursday or friday night. Texas rednecks HATE to swallow their own spit. And they love activities which require them to spit (like dip). #paristrousers
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JessickerFletcher
11/17/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: In CT, more than 6 (or maybe 7) women in a house constitutes a brothel and it's considered illegal. That's why there are hardly any sororities at Connecticut schools. #paristrousers
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LaComtesse
11/17/09

@femme-bot: I can tell you personally that the sizable Orthodox Jewish community in Bergen, who can only do their leisure shopping on Sundays, do NOT appreciate this. #paristrousers
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LaComtesse
11/17/09

@femme-bot: I can tell you personally that the sizable Orthodox Jewish community in Bergen, who can only do their leisure shopping on Sundays, do NOT appreciate this. #paristrousers
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PipPipCheerio
11/17/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I feel you, Zombie. I live in Georgia and worked at Kroger last summer. EVERY single Sunday, people would angrily lecture me about the stupidity of banning Sunday alcohol sales, and I was always dumbfounded. I mean, seriously? What, you think I, a college-age cashier, wrote the legislature regulating alcohol sales? #paristrousers
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
11/17/09

@PipPipCheerio: I would always advise them to write their legislators while nodding in agreement. It usually shut them up faster. #paristrousers
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femme-bot
11/17/09

@LaComtesse: Short Hills isn't closed. #paristrousers
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JessickerFletcher
11/17/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: @PipPipCheerio: I'm pretty sure my mother and grandmother do this everywhere they go. One day my grandmother even tried to make the argument that since they didn't live in the state, it shouldn't matter. In their defense, they really do want their gin. Really.

P.S. @PipPipCheerio: I really like your commenter name and avatar. A LOT.
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sybann
11/17/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I've been to Florida - there are people who shouldn't see themselves naked there... #paristrousers
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LaComtesse
11/17/09

@femme-bot: There's no Ikea in Short Hill *shakes fist*! Besides, it's shooting the county in the foot--that's a LOT of business they're missing out on.
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femme-bot
11/17/09

@LaComtesse: Feh. I want my Sundays off. #paristrousers
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MalinaMango
11/17/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: My two favourites: In Atlanta you can't tie a giraffe to a telephone pole. And in Lexington, KY you can't carry an ice cream cone in your pocket. #paristrousers
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colormeroutine
11/17/09

@MalinaMango: In NYC you can't bring a donkey above 34th street #paristrousers
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Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana
11/17/09

@sybann: Come now, everyone deserves their naked time. #paristrousers
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wrapped in plastic
11/17/09

@colormeroutine: In Ireland, they repealed a law against Jews owning certain kinds of armour about four years ago. Which makes me (as an Irish Jew) desperately wish I'd bought some armour before that point, just to stick it to the man. #paristrousers
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sybann
11/17/09

@Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana: I have too many mirrors - like the unwary bride it has given me PTSD. ; ) #paristrousers
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Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana
11/17/09

@sybann: I choose to let mine fog up and embrace myself for the Czech goddess that I am. #paristrousers
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roxythekiller
11/17/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I care about these laws, since they set a precedent for dress codes. In workplaces here in CA, women are sometimes expected to wear skirts or dresses for "formal" attire. Companies often use dress codes as an excuse to fire women, not to promote women, or not to hire them in the first place. It's not unusual to hear a working woman's outfit get labeled "provocative" (a label never used on men), or to hear a woman who wears pantsuits get called "dowdy" and "unfeminine" (or other things Hillary Clinton was called during the '08 campaign.)

Dress codes are both written and unwritten, and the fact that women in CA could still be forced to wear skirts in the workplace up until 1995 is depressing (in 1995, women in CA got the right to wear pants to work. Until then, there were cases where workplaces could pressure or force women to wear skirts.) #paristrousers
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tammygarrison
11/17/09

@roxythekiller: This is why, if God loves me, I will never ever have to have a job where jeans are not acceptable. So far I've managed pretty well. #paristrousers
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roxythekiller
11/17/09

I have no tolerance for any dress codes, except for those advocating cleanliness and safety. Basically, a person's right to freedom of expression ends when my or their health is seriously threatened (or I can smell them before I see them.) That's always been my take.

However, these concepts are sometimes confused with pseudo-science, and pseudo-science is sometimes used in furthering prejudicical dress code rules. For example, curly hair is not messy of flea-ridden, although the prejudice that it is has lead to written and unwritten dress codes that forced women to straighten their hair in order to be "clean."

I'm familiar with this because I have very curly hair, and wore short skirts in high school. Somehow, the former was translated to "messy" (since most people in my school were born with straight hair, and thought I had fleas. Some people suggested I buy a brush in order to look "neater.") Short skirts translated not only to being labeled as "slutty", but lead to me getting pulled out of class multiple times--- and to several angry phonecalls from a cranky school official who threatened my mom with child negligence. Apparently, wearing a short skirt causes you to get colds!

When I did get sick, it wasn't from the cold... it was from the stress and lack of sleep caused by high weekend-homework loads as well as the stress of constantly being insulted and belittled by adults for the way I chose to dress (and it usually was adults. The classmates who criticized me were often trying to copy the adults, and seem like "good girls" or "moral young men." This was actually why I wore the skirt... I did not like how dress codes divided girls in my school into "Good" and "Bad.")
The situation grew so frustrating that I played sick so I could work from home, and not have to deal with bullies. I was not the only one who did this.

And, before anyone starts making the "short skirts are distracting" argument, let me just say that cute boys with long, dark bangs are also distracting to a sex-deprived girl like me, but that it would be silly to call them out of class for being "provocative" and "distracting." Anything that isn't Christian, Straight, White, Upper-middle-class and "mainstream" has been singled out in a dress code at one point or another throughout US and European history.

I know that not everyone understands where I'm coming from, and that I will have to compromise at some point by putting on a suit and tie. However, I will actively choose to not be a member of the Fashion Police. We all have the power not to single out people who buck dress codes, and we can all avoid judging people by their clothing. #paristrousers
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badmutha
11/17/09

In reply to French Women Don't Get Slacks.
In an equally relevant vein: First!!11! U R so geh! #paristrousers
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A Small Turnip
11/17/09

In reply to French Women Don't Get Slacks.
If you really want a weep-for-humanity moment, the Telegraph comments beat YouTube's by a whole order of magnitude.

They systematically dismantle the lovely idea that with education comes sense, one ill-chosen word at a time. #paristrousers
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RocktheDebit
11/17/09

@A Small Turnip: The only good comments on that thread are the suggestions that women go to their local police stations en masse and ask for permission to wear trousers. I'm a firm believer in repealing stupid laws through driving those responsible for their enforcement crazy enough to complain to their elected officials.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
10/23/09

In reply to Women Face Flogging For Wearing Pants
And yet in this country women routinely walk around pantsless and all that happens to them is nothing. #jailedforwearingpants
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stealthird
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
Hey, wait a minute, how come its OK for French Vogue to call that leopard print "tribal" and "ethnic"? I mean, I guess they don't really specify which "tribe" or ethnic group its supposedly from, but still...
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Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
I'm seriously concerned for the genitals belonging to the woman in the foreground of photo 10.
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Jack_Burton
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
Kinkiest use of fiber-optic flex-conduit I've ever seen. And I've done some kinky things in server rooms.
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nothanks
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
how does the ginger model in #9 have such skinny legs and such big tits, HOW?!
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SylvanSylph
06/11/09

@nothanks: It real life it's not the greatest look. My ex-boyfriend called me "chicken" on multiple occasions. He was a real charmer.
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sonjamikail
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
If less pants=more puppies, this is a trend I can get behind!
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Spaceman Bill Leah
06/11/09

@sonjamikail: Of course the puppies love the no-pants look. It makes crotch sniffing waaaaay easier.
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stoprobbers
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
Those silk boxers are already making madness in the US -- check Go Fug Yourself, Whitney Port was wearing them around NYC WITH A CROP-TOP.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
if i have to wax my pubes before i can take the dog out, the look is not for me.
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NefariousNewt
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
Between this and "Hot Jezebel Sauce," I think shall be forced to floss my brain.
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MizJenkins
06/11/09

In reply to French Vogue Pushes Anti-Pants Agenda
They say when women's hemlines go up, so does the economy. With the state we're in it's no wonder women have just stopped wearing skirts and pants altogether. We've got to do our part, after all.
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marshmallory
06/11/09

@MizJenkins: I guess it would be cheaper to buy no pants at all.
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