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My dress is my business, Nai women fight back

Nairobi women protest in the streets

A short hemline is loved and condemned in equal measure. At one end of the debate feminists clamour to wear what they want, as they make a statement of liberation while at the far end of that debate are moralists who are quick to pass judgement on women based on the length of their hemline. Year in year out, they have fought to have it closer as possible to the ground.

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