re: #233 CuriousLurker

They’re supposed to go hand in hand. Some Muslim women don’t cover their hair; some wear crazy clothes, but do cover their hair; some wear jilbabs, some just wear skirts & long-sleeved blouses or dresses; some wear the niqab, some wear the niqab and gloves—I’m sure you’ve seen every variation in NYC. And if you go to Iran and other ME countries, you’ll also find prostitutes wearing chadors, abaayas, and burqas. The covering by itself is meaningless.

This is a subject of interest, because in some countries who do a roaring trade in undergarments that can be worn under a simple cloak when in the street (or none worn at all), which is understandably kinky in any society, the issue is not one of personal modesty there. It is a law, whatever one thinks of it.

It seems to me that when in societies that do not have such strict laws, punishable readily, of female dress, and I add of male dress as well (shorts etc.); then it becomes a matter of stating that “I am different from you, and you can see it from the uniform I wear”.

Of course the alternative statement in some neighborhoods is; “look at me, I’m just as different from all those others in the next street as you are”.