Middle East Fashion Dilemmas

How do Middle Eastern women balance being fashionable and conservative, at the same time?
A teacher wrote women's fashion in the middle east using other reliable sources to put this excerpt together on laws and restrictions of the Middle East.

In many Mid Eastern countries not just the women but the men cover themselves from head to toe while in public.  You will likely never see an Arab man in an Arab country in shorts, unless he is on the beach.  In this environment, where covering up for modesty’s sake is the norm, seeing us dressed in anything less than modest attire can be uncomfortable for the locals.  

I found it interesting that people who are pretty much as bright and modern as Americans still go by their rule book, the Quran. It would be weird to wear a full headdress in the summer when its hot and you don’t. I agree that you will never see an arab man who covers in shorts because I believe it is considered disrespectful and looked down upon from their peers and friends.

From the journal Chic Under Wraps that I found through the ProQuest database talks about how women in the Middle East care about their fashion just as much as us.

Even though there are laws restricting women to what they can wear in public, there are some women who rebel and get away with showing a little more than the law allows. Rebellious women are found in the more populated, more common downtown city areas

One of the great aspects of America is we have freedom of choice. In the M.E women are not really given a choice to wear a hijab or headdress because when following the Quran it says to cover to show respect. Some women believe they should have freedom of dress and rebel against the laws. All the protests have been turned down and people leading this outbreaks, punished.

Women in most Muslim countries cover their heads and bodies in public in keeping with religious tradition. But underneath, a growing number of them are wearing elegant, fashionable attire. "We can mix the East and the West in fashion," says Desiree Sadek, publisher of Elle's Middle East edition, which is part of Hachette Filipacchi Medias, a division of French media group Lagardere SCA.

Even though women in the Middle East have to cover for religious reasons they can still be fashionable like everyone else in the world. Since women don’t have to cover in front of other women they can embrace their fashion in female only parties. Most of the time, women wear in style clothing to compete with other female being conservative.

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Discussion Questions 
1. In the next couple years, do you think Middle East women will slowly start refusing to wear a hijab?
2. Has Middle East fashion developed as quickly as U.S fashion?
3. How do different styles develop?