A resident Uzbek government official has appeared to have ordered the shutting down of stores displaying and selling items such as lingerie, for the reason that it is offending the view and thinking of the children.
The Kremlin-sponsored website and television channel Russia Today (rt.com) writes and Uzmetronom.com publishes the story last December 25 that states:
“Women in the Uzbek Capital Tashkent will have to buy their underwear ‘under the counter’ from now on. Local media say Otabek Sadykov took a walk through a local market and was shocked by the sight of bras and panties on sale. He immediately issued an order putting a stop to the display of women’s lingerie in shops.”
The narrative may have appeared in from semi-official uzmetronom.com, but this Russian-language Tashkent-based site often leaks from government sources and covers a variety of scandals and information of the day.
In accordance with the information from our readers, in Sergeli district of Tashkent, all shops retailing underwear are closed, and it has vanished from the shelves of specialized departments in other stores giving out or not disclosing any reason. At the present underwear is being sold underground. Consistent with merchants who were affected they are forced into the underground; the forbiddance on the sale of underwear in the district was imposed by the new khokim - the head of the local administration.
The article goes on to speculate sarcastically that next, recommendations from the commission on spirituality and education will be issued to regulate even the design of underwear and when, where, and how it can be worn -- and purchased only with a husband or wife or close relative present.
Not any of the sources utters whether this command from one khokim applies all over the place in Tashkent, and it appears mainly to be about displays, and not a ban on the sales.
It is also unclear if this new forbiddance stems from any spiritual authorities, even though there have been signs of a bit of a morals movement lately, with a concentrated effort on obscene lyrics in hip-hop music and art works.
This sounds like a chance for Gulnara Karimova, President Islam Karimov's designing daughter, known for her trend triumphs and failures.
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