The government of Uganda is proposing legislation that would ban women from wearing miniskirts in public, according to a report in the Mail & Guardian, a South African weekly newspaper.The paper quotes Uganda’s ethics and integrity minister explaining the proposed law. “It’s outlawing any indecent dressing including miniskirts,” he said, according to the report. “Anything above the knee is outlawed. If a woman wears a miniskirt, we will arrest her.”
Miniskirts are legal in the United States, of course. But that doesn’t mean women (or men) can wear them anywhere.
Under Federal Bureau of Prisons policy, wearing a miniskirt may result “in your being denied visitation” to a federal prison.
Until recently, a Securities and Exchange Commission dress code regulation specifically banned miniskirts on trading floors. It now encourages its members to adopt a business casual dress code.