Ban it! Ban the pajamas!

One man’s fashion victory is another’s fashion crime.  That’s true for everything from mini-skirts to anti-cancer bracelets, all of which have been banned.  Next on the ban-dar?  Pajamas.  If one Shreveport, Louisiana politician has his way, Caddo parish will ban wearing pajamas out in public under a proposed new ordinance.

“If you can’t [wear pajamas] at the boardwalk or courthouse, why are you going to do it in a restaurant or in public?  Today it’s pajamas,” said Michael Williams, the Caddo commissioner behind the proposed ban.  “Tomorrow it’s underwear.  Where does it stop?”

According to Williams, the incident was inspired by an indecent exposure incident that took place at the local Walmart in which a man wearing pajamas, while with a group of others wearing pajamas, exposed himself.  Shreveport already has a statute banning sagging pants, which led to 31 citations last year; they have the experience and the urgency to regulate how people dress in public, but this seems more like a personal complaint from Williams (or a few key constituents) and less a menace to public health.

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