Montana lawmaker: Make yoga pants illegal


ASSOCIATED PRESS: Indecent exposure act killed after bill sponsor said yoga pants should be outlawed.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS: Indecent exposure act killed after bill sponsor said yoga pants should be outlawed.

The Republican from Missoula said he wouldn’t have a problem with people being arrested for wearing such provocative clothing such as tight-fitting beige garments. Moore also said yoga pants should be illegal. Although members of the committee giggled about the bill, no discussion was allowed before a voice vote to table it.

Moore and retired professor Walt Hill drafted HB 365 after last year’s Bare as you Dare bicycle event outraged some residents last summer. Fearing that denying organizers an event permit would breach free speech, city officials allowed participants, many of them completely nude, to ride through downtown Missoula on Aug. 17.

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