Word: chadors
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...dress, Iranians signal where they stand in the cultural divide. Devout revolutionaries wear dark colors. Men favor baggy trousers, long-sleeved shirts buttoned to the neck and several days' growth of beard; women wear layers of Islamic clothing known as hijab, including the magneh (a headdress) and the chador. On the other side, the garbzadeh -- literally, "those poisoned by the West" -- wear jeans and colored short-sleeved shirts if they are men; the women wear a raincoat-like "uniform," or manteau, and tie their scarves loosely...
...most dangerous forces on earth. But listen to what an Iranian housewife named Hafezeh has to say. Earlier this month, just before the sixth anniversary of the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, she sat on a carpet inside his gold-domed mausoleum. Under her loosely draped chador she wore blue jeans and a bright turquoise blouse...
Many women are dispensing with the cumbersome chador and are wearing simple head scarves. At the Red Shopping Mall in northern Tehran, teenage girls sport cut-down Islamic dresses called mini-manteaus, with flashes of color from bandanas under their scarves. Says an Iranian student: "Women are trying to make a statement. They're trying to say, 'We are still here.' " Bright new buses ply the capital's busy main streets, while shops and showrooms spill over with expensive consumer goods...
Once they dressed me in a chador ((the head-to-toe veil of strictly religious Muslim women)) and put those little round spot Band-Aids on my eyes, and then they put the sunglasses on. Well, the Band-Aids came loose, and with the prescription sunglasses on, I could see perfectly well. So I was sitting in the back of the car with a guard sitting next to me, just kind of peering around...
...challenge to the concept of what it means to be French. Surprisingly, residents of foreign origin constitute no greater a share of the population today -- 6.3% -- than they did in 1931. The novelty is the highly visible intrusion of non-Europeans, largely Muslims, and their practices: schoolgirls wearing the chador, the electronically amplified wails of muezzins from mosques, suburban concrete ghettos where the culture smacks of Algiers or Tunis more than Paris or Lyons...