"One of Carroll's hardest days had been Wednesday, the day before her release, she said, when she broke down and cried hard, muffling the sound with her abaya in the room where she was being held. She prayed."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001965_2.html
If I were forced to wear an abaya for all that time, and actually used it to muffle cries--it would be the first thing to go when I reached safety. She's still wearing hers.