A Republican legislator from Montana has proposed a law that seems like something out of another decade — or perhaps even another century.
State Rep. David Moore has proposed a new bill that would ban “any device, costume, or covering that gives the appearance of, or simulates, the genitals, pubic hair, anus region, or pubic hair region.”
“Yoga pants should be illegal in public anyway,” he added following a debate over the bill. Although the law would not make yoga pants or speedos illegal, it does call for the elimination of all nipple exposure, male or female.
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Moore’s bill is reportedly part of an effort to strengthen the state’s indecent exposure laws, though it would reduce penalties for indecent exposure from potentially life in prison to a maximum of five years and a $5,000 fine.
Still, critics of the legislation and women in particular, have taken offense to what they consider Moore’s preoccupations with appropriate outer-garments. The Montana legislature also raised eyebrows last year when they endorsed a new dress code policy that went out of its way to crack down on “skirt lengths and necklines.”
“My big problem is that women are set aside for an admonishment in the document, basically telling us to mind our skirt lines and mind our necklines, and that feels very 19th century to me,” Democratic Montana House Minority Whip Jenny Eck told the Helena-based news station KXLH at the time.
“Women can be trusted to get up in the morning and dress appropriately,” she added. “Would the sergeant of arms be the clothes police checking our skirt lengths and cleavage?”









