A top official for the Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday proposed creating an “all-Russian dress code,” lashing out at women who leave the house “painted like a clown” and “confuse the street with striptease.”
This priest says a lot of things that are just plain wrong, but ‘painted like a clown’ is an accurate description for most of the girls at my Moldovan high school last year.
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He argued that clothing was not a private business, and that he hoped that Russia would soon be a place where scantily dressed women or men in track suits would not be admitted into public venues.
That others have a more vested interest in how you dress is a sentiment that must be a remnant of Soviet communism, or perhaps of eastern village peasant life.
