But they don't really need to, because no matter how much skin they choose to show in public, they're all the same underneath it.
The Karnataka state minister for women and child welfare, C.C. Patil, had expressed similar views, suggesting that women who work in information technology firms and call centers "ought to know how much skin to cover when leaving such workplaces".
Nana Putra, project director for programming and production at MNC, the media conglomerate that is organizing the competition, declined to say whether specific rules dictate what portions of, or how much, skin can be exposed.
"I have come to realize that looking good isn't about how much skin you show but how well you carry yourself and look in whatever you're wearing," she wrote in an e-mail.
It's no accident that how much skin a female actor is prepared to show, or refuses to show, is usually written into contracts, the general rule in Hollywood still being that the more successful a woman is, the fewer clothes she is expected to take off.
The action of sunlight on the skin in the UK is highly variable for different populations depending on the time of year and the latitude – you'll get more UVB in Brighton than in John o'Groats – and finally, how much skin is exposed and the colour of skin.
