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Not just their hair --- if they go out in public they have to put an ugly brown chador over their stylish western clothes.

Sorry pal, you're wrong -- and the pictures are proof of that. That may be the case in the villages and when the Islamimic revolution first hit, but it's not that way now.

Persian women are gorgeous and terribly fashionable.

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I believe these women are in defiance of the mullahs but a Persian woman I worked with told me that they --- including she when she goes back to visit are supposed to put on the brown chador when going out in public.

Maybe it's changed a lot in a couple years so that now they aren't expected to do that.