You've come a long way baby!
Posted on 11/07/2005 10:21:49 AM PST by XR7
"Full coverage," not your typical fashion show prerequisite, was the theme at a "fashion seminar" recently hosted by Nordstrom at the tony Tysons Corner Center mall in McLean, Va. The show, called "Interpreting Hot Trends for Veiled and Conservative Women," was perhaps the first high-fashion hijab event sponsored by corporate America. The target: well-heeled Muslim women living in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, where mansions and mosques are filled with rich Muslim immigrants, an increasing number of whom shop at Tysons Corner.
The Nordstrom show is part of a growing trend: Western retailers and designers are beginning to market directly to Muslim women. In 2000, for instance, European designers Yves Saint-Laurent and Jean-Paul Gaultier showed at the International Festival of African Fashion in Niger while ultraconservative Muslims paraded through the streets in protest of the "satanic" presentation...
If the Nordstrom event made one thing clear, it was that it's not easy to combine high fashion with religion. While one woman walked away with a long orange duster sweater, women on both sides of the figurative catwalk were grumbling unhappily. A Moroccan woman found a black polka-dotted top inappropriate because of its "three-quarter-length sleeves." Sleeves, according to the strictest standards of hijab, must extend to the wrists. A George Mason University law school student groused that a black Anne Klein skirt was "too short" because it hit the calves. A young scarved woman became frustrated that she wasn't able to find "an A-line skirt without a slit." And the Nordstrom cashiers mumbled to each other they weren't ringing up enough sales...
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Hijab is a tool of slavery.
Let me guess.....ummmmmm, the new chic "Strapless bomb"?
Spandex Bhurkas?......
In a true Muslim society, this kind of thing would get a woman beat or maybe killed by her husband.
Minneapolis ?
true story..I was in London several years ago doing laundry and in walked two women in burkhas..they checked to see who was in there..when they determined no muslim men (only us westerners), one stood by the door as the other walked to the rear of the laundromat where she undid her burkha (it was hot as blazes in there as well as outside) to cool off..man, I'll tell ya what..that woman was drop dead gorgeous..mid-thigh white mini-skirt, tight silk top and the sexiest eyes I've ever seen..when she cooled off, they switched places and would immediately cover up if a muslim looking man walked by..(the one by the door was the obvious lookout)..it was also obvious to me that her hubby/parents/whomever had no idea what she was, (or was not dependent upon your point of view), wearing underneath that burkha..she would have fit in at any dance club anywhere..
/sarcasm
What frog women will have to wear after they surrender later this month.
How come they can do it for the Muslims, but they can't do it for normal Americans?
When I went back-to-school shopping for my daughters, I complained to the clerks that it was impossible to find ANYTHING, even dorky-looking clothes, that were not slutty. All of the tops were low cut or belly-baring and neither of my daughters like those styles. (And they are not fat or ugly, they just don't feel comfortable with it all hanging out.)
They are a race of cowards. They will do what they are told if prodded enough.
Imagine if, during the middle of World War II, a major department store held a fasion event to showcase the Kimono or brownshirts. They would have been out of business the next day.
That is hilarious!
Muslim men must have a terrible fear that they will not be able to control their lust if a woman wears a 3/4 length sleeve.
Hey, can you blame them for wanting to look their best when they go forth to slaughter the infidel?
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