[Assam] LA Times: Women's clothing: Vatican's theocractic dictates to Catholic countries?

[umesh sharma]

http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ap-bikinis1aug01,0,2219323.story?coll=la-home-style
   
  1964: The Vatican banned bikinis in Catholic countries 
   
   
  I wonder which other theocratic nation (like Holy See or Vatican ) can have the guts to ban things in other nations - no wonder China is upset with Vatican's dictats.
   
  Any comments?
   
  Umesh
   
  PS: I would add that it also shows that people's attitudes to clothing change slowly over time. In early 1990s I was surprised to see nearly ALL Delhi girls wearing "tight" jeans - which was a crowd puller in urban Rajasthan (even now in most rural India) - but has become much more common within city limits all over India -since. Even now,only  whiteskinned foreigner women can roam around without fear in shorts. Though  a female collegemate at Hindu Institute of Mangement turned up in 1995 summer - in Bermudas (knee length shorts) in semi-rural Sonipat near Delhi. A city crisis was averted when she was apprised of the tension which might follow - due to some local rustic youth chasing a young Delhi  girl.
   
  Ofcourse it is always a struggle to get perceptions changed. Attemps to ban jeans or mini skirts in some Delhi and Mumbai colleges is a case in point.


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