Word: hijab
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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Twelve years after Khomeini came to power, Iran's Islamic revolution has finally softened around the edges. The signs of fitful change are everywhere. On Tehran's streets women still observe hijab (the veil), the Islamic injunction that women keep themselves covered save for their faces and hands. But some have exchanged their shapeless black chadors for slightly fitted raincoats in colors like green and purple. Veils that are supposed to completely cover a woman's hair are inching back to reveal hints of the lush coiffures underneath. Women's lips and fingernails are beginning to sport glosses...