This made me laugh and laugh.
Quote:
Ban for low-rider jeans sought
From correspondents in Miami, Florida
May 12, 2004
AMERICAN singer Britney Spears may have to rethink her wardrobe before visiting her home state of Louisiana after it said is was considering new legislation to outlaw low cut jeans.
The proposed bill on denims that reveal underwear or too much skin was approved by the state's House Criminal Justice Committee last week.
Low-rider jeans are the choice of young females and Britney.
It threatens to outlaw wearing clothing in public that intentionally exposes undergarments or "any portion of the pubic hair, cleft of the buttock or genitals".
Violators would be required to carry out three days of community service at a local fire station and pay a fine of up to $US175 ($252).
The bill is due to go before the full Louisiana legislature sometime during the current session, which ends June 21.
Local councillor Glenn Green, a staunch supporter of the bill, told the committee last week that teenagers' fashions had gone so far that legislation was needed to bring them back within the bounds of decency.
"I don't relish seeing the beginning of the crease of people's buttocks," local press reports quoted Green as saying. "And I don't enjoy watching young men letting their sexual organs show through their red or black silk underwear."
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REF:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...E13762,00.html
The US is a strange place. Wonderful and inspiring in so many ways, yet altogether laughable and scary in others.
Mr Mephisto