Crop tops or 'republican' dress? France debates schoolwear French women are known for their instinctive knack for spot-on chic attirePARIS -- French women enjoy a reputation for their instinctive knack for spot-on chic attire. Plunging necklines also were seen as inappropriate classroom dress, while the popular crop tops baring midriffs got a 55% no from older people, while 59% of under-25s approved. Pollsters linked the results not to republican dress but to an overall sense that it's “still up to girls to handle masculine desire” despite their generation's rejection of such notions. The debate over school dress was also framed by the resurgence of the long-standing polemic over Muslim headscarves, seen as an affront to France’s secular foundations.

Source: ABC News September 26, 2020 08:15 UTC