A district mayor in Budapest has proposed a dress code for city-hall employees under which only women with “pretty legs” can wear short skirts, the Hungarian press reported on Saturday.
Gyorgy Mitnyan, the conservative mayor of the city’s 12th district, is also seeking to ban skirts that are shorter than 2cm to 3cm above the knee.
Under his proposal, both male and female employees would have to wear blazers or suits and leather shoes all year long.
The mayor told the internet news website Index.hu that there is already a compulsory dress code issued in his district every season, and said the code is needed in city hall because he sees a lot of shabby-looking employees there.
Budapest mayor Gabor Demszky called the proposal simply “crass”.
“I flatly reject the idea in the name of city hall, which employs hundreds of women workers,” he said in a statement to Hungarian state news agency MTI.
The proposal is, nevertheless, scheduled for debate next week. — AFP