I've found this issue rather interesting to follow. I guess I'm sympathetic to women being able to wear what they feel comfortable with. While the hygiene issue does make some sense I think it should be dealt with as a separate issue and I think some solution could be found to allow women to wear their burkins if they wish to.
I found this report from a local newspaper rather concerning. Surely you can wear what you want.
"The photographs emerged as a mother of two also told on Tuesday how she had been fined on the beach in nearby Cannes wearing leggings, a tunic and a headscarf.
Her ticket, seen by French news agency AFP, read that she was not wearing “an outfit respecting good morals and secularism”.
