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Monday, October 25, 2010

City bans mini skirts - Italy


Italian city to ban mini-skirts as part of tough new anti-social behaviour rules

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:53 PM on 25th October 2010
Outlawed: Castellammare di Stabia in Italy want to put wearing mini-skirts and other revealing clothing on a blacklist of anti-social behaviours
Outlawed: Castellammare di Stabia in Italy want to put wearing mini-skirts and other revealing clothing on a blacklist of anti-social behaviours
A seaside city in Italy is set to put wearing mini-skirts and other revealing clothing on a blacklist of anti-social behaviours in a bid to help 'restore urban decorum and facilitate better civil co-existence'.
Castellammare di Stabia is trying to be the latest location in Italy to make use of new powers to crack down on a host of actions including street drinking, playing football in public places and blasphemy. Even sunbathing is on the list despite the city's coastal location.
'Nothing too revealing' is the new policy Mayor Luigi Bobbio wants to enforce with offenders facing fines of between £20-£450.
According to the BBC, the new directive would effectively outlaw everything from mini-skirts to low-cut jeans when people walk around the city.
Mr Bobbio, from the centre-right People of Freedom party, says he wants to target people who are 'rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved'.
The proposals could be approved at a council meeting later today.
Sunnyside: The city on Italy's western coast is also moving to outlaw sunbathing
Sunnyside: The city on Italy's western coast is also moving to outlaw sunbathing
Locator Castellammare di Stabia Italy
'I think it's the right decision,' a local parish priest, Don Paulo Cecere, told the Cronache di Napoli newspaper. 'It's also a way of combating the rise in sexual harassment.'
Castellammare di Stabia is latest city to make use of the extra powers handed down by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government to mayors, in the effort to fight crime and confront anti social behaviour.
In other places they have banned sandcastles, kissing in cars, feeding stray cats, wooden clogs and the use of lawn mowers at weekends.  
 


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