REGINA, Saskatchewan -- Two women were acquitted of indecency charges Wednesday for sunbathing topless last summer in a city park.

Provincial Court Judge Eugene Lewchuk ruled that Evangeline Godron, 64, and Kathleen Rice, 42, didn't offend community standards when they took their tops off in public.

Lewchuk said his ruling didn't clear the way for unconditional toplessness. He said women who engaged in erotic or offensive behavior while baring their breasts still might face arrest.

The two women were charged after taking their shirts off in Victoria Park in downtown Regina on a hot afternoon last August.

Police, acting on a complaint, asked the women to put their tops back on. They refused and were charged with creating an indecent exhibition in a public place.

Wednesday's judgment conforms with a ground-breaking ruling in Ontario two years ago in which the province's highest court overturned the indecency conviction of Gwen Jacobs. She had been arrested after strolling topless down a street in her hometown of Guelph in 1991.