Skimpy clothing ban at Thai water festival

Bangkok - Women who wear skimpy clothing during Thailand's New Year water festival will be ordered by police to go home and get changed.

The Thai New Year festivities, known as Songkran, will be celebrated April 12 to 15 in the northern city of Chiang Mai.

Revellers throw buckets of water on each other in symbolic and often rowdy blessings, reports the Nation newspaper.

Chiang Mai Mayor Boonlert Buranupakorn said police had been instructed to lecture women who wear spaghetti-strap tops and hot pants about their "improper" clothing and tell them to get changed.

The city is also to ban music sound systems in an attempt to prevent scantily-clad teenagers from dancing in public.

Anyone playing a sound system in public faces a £30 fine, but wearing revealing clothes would result in just a lecture and an order to go home and change. -- Annanova News

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