Pixies Place Forums - South Korea moves to legalize miniskirts

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Hot pants and miniskirts will soon
be legal in South Korea.

The country is in the final stages of revising an
indecency law that prohibits people from wearing
revealing outfits and was once enforced by
ruler-wielding police during authoritarian governments
in the 1970s, officials said.

"The law for excessive exposure does not match our
current society," said Kim Jae-kwang, an official with
the Korea Legislation Research Institute.

Under authoritarian rule, police could arrest or fine
women for their fashion choices. They also took
scissors to men whose hair they felt was too long and
tossed people in jail for unauthorized dancing.

The rules stayed on the books as South Korea moved to
an open democracy in the late 1980s, but were no
longer enforced.

Now miniskirts are about as common as traffic jams in
the capital of Seoul and police have long given up on
measuring the distance from knees to hemlines.