Botswana dress code is sexist says women's group

The Botswana government have issused a ban on women civil servants wearing clothes that are too tight or too revealing and a women's group says that is sexist. The new rules state that if women come to work in too tight skirts or trousers or sleeveless tops or showing too...

Saggy trousers law overturned

After an American teenager spent a night in jail for leaving his underwear exposed by sagging trousers, a court overturned the law, declaring it unconstitutional."The 17-year-old spent a night in jail after police...

Mailman longs to wear kilt on the job

A 6-foot-tall, 250-pound mailman is lobbying to wear a kilt on the job, but so far with little success. The National Letter Carriers' Association rejected his idea in July despite impassioned claims of chafing,...

'Elephant leg' girl is ready to start running

Glad to read this news, hope she can live a normal life. " A WOMAN whose legs swelled to THREE times their normal size says she wants to go for a jog after having life-changing surgery. Elated Wang Cheng says...

Learning to be British and Muslim

I'm not a believer in state schools being religious - Christian, Muslim, whatever. I feel that state run schools are best being secular. If a parent wants something different then by all means but not on the...

'Elephant legs' woman set for operation

"Wang Cheng, 24, cannot work or even wear trousers because of the grotesque and painful elephantiasis which has dogged her since the age of six and left her with legs weighing 50 kilos. "I cannot go out to work,"...

Underwear is called underwear for a reason

" We’ve all seen them, mostly young men walking around with their crouches down to their knees and their boxer covered butt hanging out. They hold their pants up by grabbing the front and pulling them up or constantly hiking their drawers just in the nick of time before...

Florida Passes Saggy Pants Law

I know skinny pants are all the rage and everything...but how do you enforce that kind of style conformity? Oh right. That's how:"The Florida Senate wants public school students to pull up their pants. Lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that could mean suspensions for students...

Angelina Jolie splits her trousers; Brad saves the day

I wonder if she would do the same for him in the case of an awkward zipper malfunction."They fly, they bike, they tour refugee camps — and they save each other from the occasional fashion disaster. As Angelina...

US town set to ban saggy trousers

US town set to ban saggy trousers A man wearing low-slung trousers, exposing his underwear Low-slung trousers are fashionable among some young people A mayor in the US state of Louisiana says he will sign into law a proposal to make wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent...

Man wears same trousers for 2.5 years

I could understand it in a colder climate, but sweaty old Darwin, wherein the wet season even in the morning on buses the body odour can be pretty smelly!"he fashion police have been called in on a Darwin...

A Date With a Dangerous Mind

"EXCLUSIVE: Face to face with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the man whose swaggeris stirring fears of warwith the U.S. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn't one for ceremony. We are waiting in a villa outside Havana when...

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