“I had to go to the bathroom to take off my skirt. The journalist went to get my skirt and then passed it to the soundman“, says the director.
Quentin Ceuppens, the journalist, remembers him the “side deadpan of the policeman who explained that it was the regulation fixed by the clerk. He wanted to burst out laughing, but his job does not allow him“.
The interview was then able to be organized without any problem within the confines of the building. “And yet my skirt was shorter than her shorts“, smiles Charlotte Collin.
“There is a decision from the bureau of the parliament which indicates that the wearing of shorts or Bermuda shorts for men is not authorized“, we are confirmed by the Walloon Parliament. The same source specifies that this rule, which dates back to 2018, is clearly indicated in a document entitled “information for visitors“.
“This rule applies to many other public and non-public buildings. There are plenty of institutions that have this type of rule without it bothering anyone“, argues our interlocutor. He hastens to specify that it is advisable to wear a “decent dress” in Parliament, which therefore prohibits skirts for men in the same way as shorts or bermudas. “We’re not going to make an endless catalog of what decent dress is.“, he concludes.