Ban the miniskirt!

[Gromit]

The Vatican has launched a crackdown on tourists wearing skimpy clothing.

The tough dress code is applied to people using the Vatican's pharmacy, supermarket and post office.

The Guards drew aside men in shorts and women with uncovered shoulders and short skirts to tell them that they were not dressed properly.

http://www.telegraph....kirts-dress-code.html

Can we all support this ban, and hope that it is extended to visitors to our supermarkets and post offices?

[sandyRoe]

I wonder does the pharmacy in the Vatican stock contraceptives?

[TheTruthHere]

Gromit
People ignore, flout or do not comply with laws they consider bad, all the time. Which is why we no longer have Community Charge (Poll Tax). Many considered it unfair, so they demonstrated against it, refused to pay it or lobbied their political party to abolish it.

That wasn't arrogant or disrespectful. It is our duty as citizens to guard against bad laws, and do our best to get them revoked.

So any law or tax that you do not like we should do our best to get revoked but people who speak out against the tv licence tax should go to the big house (your words)

[ummmm]

Sandy.....hush...Of course not. They want us all to have 14 or 15 children...money money money.

[TheTruthHere]

He is waiting for the lady members of answerbank to say we should have the freedom to decide and then he will say the same should apply to the ladies who want to wear the burka in France.

[ummmm]

When I was in Thailand I was told I had to cover up my arms and shoulders when visiting a temple.. I did. Their country their rules.....

[sandyRoe]

The Vatican would have imposed this ban for a good reason. Think of all those sex-starved clerics working there. Suddenly they're faced with crowds of attractive, scantily clad, young ladies.
Come to think of it, they would probably like to see all women wearing some version of the burkha.

[ummmm]

They are also faced with flab hanging over jeans....thongs halfway up girls backs....tits falling out of bras...

I bet it's worse in Italy....damn those tourists.

[sandyRoe]

After long abstinence love handles might have their attractions

[boxtops]

This is actually nothing new, it's just being enforced in a specific location. A work colleague went to Rome in the 1970s (when we wore mins, the first time round) and was warned off for her skirt being too short. The Vatican being a Holy City, they expect people to show some respect. As ummm says (or nearly did) - "when in Rome...."

[ummmm]

Do as the Romans do.....

Same for England eh?

[sandyRoe]

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesars...

[naomi24]

I don't understand the connection some people seem to be making between the dress code that's being imposed and the scandal relating to paedophile priests. These are two separate issues. However, that aside, if the authorities implement restrictions in shops around the Vatican, then so be it. If I'm visiting a Catholic church, or a mosque, I comply with the requirement to cover my head, shoulders and legs (and in the case of mosques I remove my shoes too), so in these circumstances people will simply have to conform just as they do in any other place or situation that requires a specific dress code - and if they don't want to do that, then they will just have to stay away. They have a choice.

[boxtops]

Hear hear naomi - exactly.

[ludwig]

Exactly what I was going to say Naomi. It's their premises, their dress code, and people who don't like it don't have to go there.
I think Gromit's trying to draw some kind of parallel to people wanting to ban the Burkha, but there isn't one really.

[joggerjayne]

It's quite ludicrous.

According to the Vatican's charmingly naive version of the world, the female form is a creation of Almighty God.

So we have to cover it up ... because ???

[jno]

possibly because women in short skirts look more like little girls, and this is bad for priests?

[jake-the-peg]

I'd imagine any MP turning up for parliament so dressed would be turned away

Anybody turning up for a garden party at Buck House certinly would be (even Nick Griffin - especially Nick Griffin).

I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to impose a dress code - it is not a tourist attraction - it is the headquarters of a huge organisation that permits tourists to visit.

It's not Disneyland

[joggerjayne]

jno ...

Priests aren't distracted by young girls ...

... they fancy young boys!

It's those alluring little choir outfits that Priests seem unable to resist !!!

[jno]

I expect Disneyland has a dress code too. I don't know whether parliament does or not - their freedom to make their own rules has led them into bad ways in recent years.