NKorea cracks down on women's pants: activists

[Catty1]

Ya know...my country isn't perfect AT ALL - but when I read things like this I am REALLY grateful I am in North America.

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/09072...fashion_rights

NKorea cracks down on women's pants: activists

1 hour, 11 minutes ago

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korean women face hard labor if they are caught wearing trousers rather than skirts, under the communist regime's latest crackdown on public morals, South Korean activists said Friday.

Offenders can be punished with hours of forced labor or fines of 700 won, almost a week's salary for the average worker, human rights group Good Friends said, citing its own sources within the isolated nation.

The Stalinist leadership's campaign is angering women who see skirts as less practical than trousers, Good Friends director Lee Seung-Yong said.

"Women are told to wear skirts in public places and in the streets, sparking complaints among them as they often have to work in tough conditions," he told AFP.

Disciplinary officials from students' bodies and women's organizations stand at street corners during the morning rush hour and lunch breaks, to keep watch for any women violating the pants ban, according to Good Friends.

Uriminzokkiri, an official North Korean website, noted on Monday that ruler Kim Jong-Il had issued a decree in 1986 urging women to wear traditional Korean attire.

"The Dear Leader has said national character shows up not only in language, etiquette and morals but in attire as well," the site said.

It quoted Kim as saying the country's traditional skirts and jackets are a "source of our (national) pride" and that women should be "actively encouraged" to wear them.

[RICHARD]

"The Dear Leader has said national character shows up not only in language, etiquette and morals but in attire as well," the site said.

Dear Leader,

Can you get the gals to wear fishnet stockings too?

Thanks,
Anonymous Comrade

[Catty1]

My, my - Socialism in the U.S. needs real incentives!

[RICHARD]

My, my - Socialism in the U.S. needs real incentives!

Should I have asked for garters instead?

[phesina]

Sounds like Catholic School!

"The Dear Leader", my a*s. Even Mother Superior wasn't called that.

[Medusa]

Dear Leader,

Can you get the gals to wear fishnet stockings too?

Thanks,
Anonymous Comrade

Why, when seamed hosiery is so much sexier? I wore them every day w/mini skirts or a French maid's attire when I was cleaning houses for a living.

[RICHARD]

Why, when seamed hosiery is so much sexier? I wore them every day w/mini skirts or a French maid's attire when I was cleaning houses for a living.

Because they leave that little seam on the back of a legs when a woman sits?

I don't know....

[Medusa]

Because they leave that little seam on the back of a legs when a woman sits?

I don't know....

Fishnet stockings are hard on the feet, very difficult to walk in. They cut into the skin. And garters make the ankles swell. If N. Korean men had to wear any of this stuff, they'd soon reconsider.

[RICHARD]

Fishnet stockings are hard on the feet, very difficult to walk in. They cut into the skin. And garters make the ankles swell. If N. Korean men had to wear any of this stuff, they'd soon reconsider.

How the he!! am I supposed to know this?

Put them in boxers then...lolololololololololol.

[Medusa]

How the he!! am I supposed to know this?

Put them in boxers then...lolololololololololol.

Hey, I thought you were an expert!

[Catty1]

WHOSE boxers, RICHARD?