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Trousers off on the Metro

Underpants and knickers on show as Paris enjoys a brief encounter along with cities across the world

AROUND 150 people took the Metro in Paris in just underpants or knickers yesterday as part of a global “No pants on the subway” day which was being matched in London, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Hong Kong, Sydney and New York - where 4,000 took part.

The event started as a joke by some actors in New York in 2002 and has now become in “international celebration of silliness” one of the original group said.

Yesterday around 150 people turned up at Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile Metro at 15.00 and then set off on their journeys affecting nonchalance and without talking to each other – and then stripped off their trousers.

Some were wearing suit or uniform tops while others carried briefcases, luggage or even bicycles and carried on with their everyday business reading newspapers or checking phones.

A Facebook page set up to publicise the event had 1,300 supporters and photos were put up on the page and on Flickr
Photo: Pe Goddam-Facebook

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