Dubai: A seaside resort city in Italy is planning to ban miniskirts and other revealing clothing to improve what the mayor calls standards of public decency, media reports said on Sunday.
Revealing garments such as low-cut tops, low-slung jeans and miniskirts could be a thing of the past for locals and visitors in the seaside town Castellammare di Stabia near Naples, under new rules being drawn up by its centre-Right mayor, the Daily Mail said.
Women in the town will potentially have to cover up under the rules, which strives to promote modesty in people.
Mayor of Castellammare di Stabia, Luigi Bobbio, says the aim is to 'restore urban decorum and facilitate better civil coexistence' and would target those who are "rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved."
Offenders would face fines of between 25 ($35) and 500 euros ($696), BBC Online reported.
The list of 41 new rules could also see swearing in public and playing football in parks and gardens also banned. 'I think it's the right decision,' the local parish priest, Don Paulo Cecere, told the Cronache di Napoli newspaper. 'It's also a way of combating the rise in sexual harassment'.
There will also be a ban on sunbathing, playing football in public places, and blasphemy, if the proposals are approved at a council meeting on Monday.
Castellammare di Stabia is latest city to make use of the extra powers handed down by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government to mayors, in the effort to fight crime and confront anti social behaviour.
In other places they have banned sandcastles, kissing in cars, feeding stray cats, wooden clogs and the use of lawn mowers at weekends, according to the BBC.
