Italian seaside town planning miniskirt ban

   A seaside city in Italy is planning to ban miniskirts and other revealing clothing to improve what the mayor calls standards of public decency.

Castellammare di Stabia is trying to be the latest location in Italy to make use of new powers to crack down on what is deemed to be anti-social behaviour.

Mayor Luigi Bobbio said the regulations would help "restore urban decorum and facilitate better civil co-existence".

Offenders would face fines of between 25 ($35) and 500 euros ($696).
'Right decision'

"Nothing too revealing" is the new policy Mayor Bobbio wants to enforce, says the BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome.

That means a tough new dress code which would effectively outlaw everything from miniskirts to low-cut jeans when people walk around Castellammare di Stabia, our correspondent adds.

Mr Bobbio, from the centre-right People of Freedom party, says he wants to target people who are "rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved".

There will also be a ban on sunbathing, playing football in public places, and blasphemy, if the proposals are approved at a council meeting on Monday.

"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 segxwal 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.

I HOPE SUCH LAWS WOULD BE PASSED DOWN IN NIGERIA SOMEDAY.....

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Posted: at 26-10-2010 09:53 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

At least, that would help to reduce the evil plans of the devil and his agents

Posted: at 27-10-2010 11:26 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

That will be nice. how I wish our leaders will implement such law one day so as to delver from this ladies that are harassing us segxwally, in the office, market, street, every were.

Posted: at 27-10-2010 12:20 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie

I don't think that will stop harassment, though it will try but if you close that way, they will find another way to get what they want, as for Nigeria that won't be possible, the only thing to do when they harass you that way is to take your eye off there and do as if you didn't see anything and control you segxwal filling, is only God that will save us, because as for them, that's the latest fashion

Posted: at 27-10-2010 12:38 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

Who wan buy and who wan sell still know thier selves

Posted: at 27-10-2010 01:06 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

that's very good!

Posted: at 27-10-2010 02:44 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

Impressive...

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Posted: at 27-10-2010 07:47 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Poster na wa for this your news, they didn't say they will implement it the whole country,it's just a little town in a state in Italy...

Posted: at 27-10-2010 08:39 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I don tire for nonsense post

Posted: at 28-10-2010 09:59 AM (13 years ago) | Newbie

This is contrary to one of the principles of human rights which is one of the fundamental pillars of the NEW WORLD ORDER.

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Posted: at 28-10-2010 03:45 PM (13 years ago) | Hero