Comments on: Fashion Week Tehran!

By: Islamic Products

Islamic Products — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:25:35 +0000

All should be allowed to dress as they wish

By: hijab

hijab — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:59:53 +0000

Everyone has a right to dress the way they want so if a Muslim woman wants to wear a hijab she should be able to

By: miss ghesquiere

miss ghesquiere — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:32:48 +0000

to clarify things: life in iran is disgusting and absolutely horrific! I have been there for a charity trip. I felt abused under all of those dark, hot, bothersome layers i was forced to wear, even so young! The men were disgusting and tacky and the women victimized. I vowed to never go there again even if my life depended on it. this is NOT Islamic dress! It is a symbol of the brainwashed, misogynistic opression by some pathetic excuses for men hiding their foolishness behind very long beards. and trust me… noone wears couture under the chadors or whtv. You must be thinking of the sorry excuse for a nation we call saudi arabia.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:14:58 +0000

Does anyone else here realize how terribly ironic a fashion show of anti-fashion religious/government prescribed garments is?

And how poignant that even women who must adhere to religious devotion in dress still feel the need for fashion and beauty, even when it’s something they’re forbidden to express? I’m surprised that this fashion week was allowed at all.

By: kris

kris — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:02:43 +0000

“Yeah but remember this is just an outer layer - many times there’s the latest couture under that burka or chador.”

i would not care about wearing the latest couture under my chador if most of the time i had to hide it. the person who wrote this comment and actually believes it should try wearing a chador, not showing ANY hair, not wearing nail polish etc. even if things are getting a lot cooler nowadays it’s still very strict and most women would not wear the chador if they could choose themselves. women are beautiful and should be able to be proud of their beauty and not be forced to hide themselves because men are too weak.

By: jenny

jenny — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:37:13 +0000

I do realize that Egypt is more Westernized in some areas than other Middle Eastern countries. Egypt is not the only country in that area that I have visited. But I feel like there’s a deaf ear on one side of this argument. I definitely hear and understand your concern; but I’m not sure that the listening is going two ways. I’ll bow out.

By: Fausta

Fausta — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:52:00 +0000

While we all ponder color choices and all that, let’s also ponder that there are women whose male children have never seen their mother’s faces.

By: Verity Kindle

Verity Kindle — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:48:00 +0000

Those women are forced to wear the chadors. They could be beaten or killed if they make any alteration to them, or take off any part of their chadors in the presence of any man who is not a close relative. The religious police, the mutawa, have absolute power in these matters. The above pictures are not of a “fashion show” in any meaningful sense of the phrase. They are of women being treated like chattel for thousands of years. It’s not funny and it’s not ” modesty”–the chador is a symbol of hatred and deep suspicion of women, all women.

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:11:48 +0000

Jenny-
Egypt isn’t Iran or Saudi Arabia- for now . A doctor friend of mine worked at the world -famous Eye Institute in Saudi Arabia for about as long as she could stand it. One minute, you’re doctor so-and-so- the next minute you’re wearing a Hijab and being chaufeurred home lest you become a source of temptation.

Every single pic I received from her was well away from the Middle East, when they were vacationing. Even in Iran, the police are quite a bit less aggressive in enforcing the morality clauses than they used to be, because the population has just had it with this particular theocracy. This fashion show is a last-ditch attempt to give the hardliners their way. I imagine it falls on blind eyes.

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:44:08 +0000

Ivy, I actually lived outside Cairo for a while. I do understand maybe more than you’d expect about women and their clothing choices there.

And yes, Phyllis: our next-door neighbor would answer her door often in a tank dress or miniskirt if I knocked, and in full robe when my husband knocked. Kinda funny.