Top 10 banned fashions

4. Pants

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Former journalist Lubna Hussein leaves the cafe where she was arrested for wearing trousers in public, in Khartoum, July 31, 2009.

In Sudan, where the government jailed a British schoolteacher for allowing young children to name a teddy bear "Muhammad" in 2007, Sudanese Muslim women are not allowed to wear trousers. As the Monitor reported last year, Sudanese UN media officer Lubna Hussein was threatened with 40 lashes for her pants. Her sentence was subsequently reduced to a $200 fine, which was paid by the Sudanese Union of Journalists.

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