🧵 1. Shocking news from North Korea: Women are banned from wearing shorts, deemed "capitalist fashion" by Kim Jong-Un. Temperature reaching 30°C makes it worse. #world
🧵 1. Shocking news from North Korea: Women are banned from wearing shorts, deemed "capitalist fashion" by Kim Jong-Un. Temperature reaching 30°C makes it worse. #world
🧵 2. Despite living under a regime demanding loyalty, an anonymous resident revealed 10 women were arrested for wearing above-the-knee trousers. Women claim discrimination.
🧵 3. Shorts ban is part of a 2020 law targeting "anti-socialist behavior." North Korea has a history of sexist imbalances, like the recent smoking ban imposed only on women.
🧵 4. Last year, North Korea condemned tight trousers and dyed hair, accusing women of wearing "indecent clothes." Nonconformity to the desired "North Korean style" is not tolerated.
🧵 5. Oppressive clothing rules aren't exclusive to North Korea. Japan, too, has shocked the world with its authoritarian dress codes.
🧵 Read more at: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/15/north-korea-enforces-an-anti-shorts-law-but-its-only-affecting-women