Posted on 06/27/2009 11:13:31 AM PDT by Schnucki
Using colourful bras donated by employees at Victoria's Secret, a group of 26 mostly Saudi women completed the first course of its kind to be offered in the kingdom – how to fit, stock and sell underwear.
The training organisers hope will help boost a campaign to lift the ban on women selling underwear in the kingdom.
The graduates held a small ceremony at a college in the western seaport of Jiddah this week, capping 40 hours of instruction during which they learned to overcome their embarrassment at doing bra fittings, deal with customer complaints and display the stock in an appealing manner.
"It was a beautiful experience," said Faten Abdo, a 32-year-old coordinator in the offices of a lingerie company.
"The most shocking thing for me was the bra sizes," she added. "We didn't know how to get proper measurements before."
The 10-day course comes three months after a group of Saudi women launched a campaign to boycott lingerie stores until they employ women. Almost all the stores in the kingdom are staffed by men. The only exceptions are a few women-only boutiques, some of them inside popular shopping centres.
The restrictions are ironic in a country that goes to great lengths to segregate the sexes. Men and women, for instance, who are not close relatives cannot stand in the same line at fast-food outlets or even be in the same car together. Conservative clerics have strong influence on government and society, and they ban anything they believe might lead to women's emancipation, such as driving or voting.
But those pushing for saleswomen in lingerie stores say they were tired of discussing intimate details with male staff and enduring their scrutiny when they ask for a particular cup size.
Their aim is to push for implementation of a law
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The training organisers hope will help boost a campaign to lift the ban on women selling underwear in the kingdom.
Isn’t that the whole idea? Boost and lift?
Having lived in Saudi Arabia for 2-1/2 years, I learned in time and from personal contact with families what the women wore underneath their “Habias”. They wore very expensive and colorful dresses, shoes and I would imagine (under garments). Of course I have no personal knowledge of that fact.
I don’t understand why some people convert to that stupid sect.
Were it not for their murderous ways, Islam, would be a joke.
So, guys were selling them in SA????
Dirka Dirka Hijabi Dirka.
Can’t they just order from the Fatima’s Secret caralog?
Well that will modernize the country. When the Fatima’s Secret catalogues start hitting the homes, the cleric’s are done.
parsy, who blames Hefner and Gurley Brown for a lot of the mess the country is in.
Allah aq-bra!
My Iran posts get hardly any views at all. Post about bras and 200 views in five minutes. Hmmmmmm
If that’s what Maria Belen Chapur looked like I would have forgiven Mark Sanford.
Yep.
Well, this is about the Saudis, so it's kind of close.
True that. Carry on!
Up with Saudi women.
Oddly, your Iran posts seem to have been a bigger bust than this thread.
cups in front ... loops in back ... then you have your cup sizes: A, B, C and D, D being the biggest
whoa, Summer nights
Sounds like someone with a large midriff...
Really? Begs some serious questions that I won’t go into.
Not any more. Some stores sell up to cup size M.
what will happen to cUp and trade?
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