# Could I legally walk around in my underwear in public?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-legally-walk-around-in-my-underwear-in-public/211586 "2003-11-05T18:20:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-legally-walk-around-in-my-underwear-in-public/211586/41 "2022-12-18T07:22:55Z")

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I’ll believe you when you post photos of yourself in a thong in Riyadh or Tehran.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-legally-walk-around-in-my-underwear-in-public/211586/42 "2022-12-18T22:34:17Z")

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> [@gazpacho](#):
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> Do you know of anywhere in the US where this is true? Because I have been to beaches in the LA area where some of the women with us have been hassled by the police because they were sun bathing topless.

I once read a news article about this being tested in NYC and they cannot stop a woman going topless since it is legal for men.

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