The French government has finally done away with a 200-year-old law that made it illegal for women in Paris to wear pants.
Audrey Hepburn famously bounced around a Montmarte café in razor-slim slacks for her 1957 film Funny Face. Ingénues Clémence Poésy and Caroline de Maigret have since been spotted in similarly hip Parisian districts in trousers. But according to one antiquated French law, all of this pants-wearing has been illegal – until now.
