Mexican town bans mini-skirts, plunging necklines at work


Mexican town bans mini-skirts, plunging necklines

June 1, 1999
Web posted at: 9:18 PM EDT (0118 GMT)

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (Reuters) -- A Mexican town has banned its women
employees from wearing mini-skirts or blouses with plunging necklines, on
"moral" grounds. 

"We consider these clothes rather immoral but I think the most important
thing is to give these women uniforms and that's our objective, to give
them uniforms," Oscar Priego, mayor of Cardenas in the southeastern state
of Tabasco, said on Monday. 

Town employees caught ignoring the ban at work face having half a day's
pay docked from their wages. 

Some local government workers were furious. 

"We don't mind wearing the uniform but we don't think it's necessary to
prohibit short skirts because they're just the thing you need in this
climate," a woman who identified herself as Rebeca told a local radio
station. 

Temperatures in the state of Tabasco usually hover around 40 degrees
Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer. 

Mini-skirt bans are not unusual in Mexico, where Roman Catholic beliefs
run deep. They have also been blacklisted by the western city of
Guadalajara. 

Copyright 1999 Reuters
 
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