Word: scarfs
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...SMOKING LILY Once a scarf-making business in Victoria, British Columbia's second city, Smoking Lily now has a much wider range, embracing clothes, accessories and linen. Many items retain the label's signature plant and insect prints. Tel: (1-604) 873 5459; smokinglily.com...
...still enforces a strict public acceptance of dress regulations, particularly for women. All women, Iranians and foreigners alike, have to dress in Islamic fashion, which means either a dark, tentlike chador, or at least a long smock over a modest dress or trousers, with the head covered by a scarf. Even at holiday resorts on the Caspian Sea, where women once swam in bikinis, the rules are rigidly applied, and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe while swimming...
...popular weekend getaway for Tehranis, five guards, three of them veiled women, drove in a Nissan van through the strolling crowds. A woman was stopped and told to roll down her three-quarter-length sleeves. Another was admonished for allowing a lock of hair to escape from under her scarf. Sometimes female guards carry cotton and cleansing cream and insist on helping transgressors remove their makeup...
DIED. Robert Six, 79, high-flying founder of Continental Airlines who bought into a three-plane mail service in 1936 and built it into a major carrier, which, in the early '70s, squeezed out the industry's highest revenues per employee; in Beverly Hills. One of the last scarf-and-goggles airline pioneers, he introduced discount fares in 1962, predicted that deregulation would mean the end of good service and watched Continental decline until it was taken over by Texas Air shortly after his retirement...
...Being teenagers though, perhaps the worst slight of all is being regarded as outsiders. "The students are aware," says Dalila Benameur, head of the social studies department, "that they are perceived as different." Says freshman Gulrana Syed: "It's kind of impossible to blend in wearing a head scarf." Student Ryan Ahmad, whose dad is his toughest music critic, admits, "Americans seem to have more fun. Muslims try to be American, but we don't know how. The cultures are so different." A sense that U.S. life has its own contradictions provides some perspective. Senior Muna Zughayer, noting...