Mini-Skirts
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Down With
The Teop-Tinputz Local Govern ment Council on Bougainville Island has put a ban on mini-skirts.
Teop-Tinputz councillors were told in July that young, unmarried girls wearing mini-skirts were much too revealing when bending over. In addition, mini-skirts were frowned upon by the Roman Catholic Mission.
A councillor sprang to the de fence of the mini-skirted Tinputz girls by pointing out that years ago, before the missionaries ar rived, the girls wore only a bunch of leaves front and rear.
One indignant girl wrote a letter to Radio Bougainville denying that the mini-skirts were at all indecent when girls bent over. "We wear 'liklik trauses' (pants) to cover our selves properly," she said.