The Last Straw - Page 8

WillowTheWhisp · 15-10-2006, 21:58

I was just thinking to myself that if every muslim woman decided to wear the full plain black burkha how many shops would go out of business. Just look at all the shops in Accy and Blackburn which sell the beautiful materials for making the salwar kameez. I do hope it doesn't become the norm for these beautiful garments to disappear and be replaced by black, black, black and more black. What a sad loss it would be. Mind you it must make life easier for the wearer. No more wondering what to wear each day - just pick out the black outfit, or the other black outfit.

garinda · 15-10-2006, 22:43

This illustration shows how men in the company of Muhammad used to be veiled as well. Funny how that isn't practiced much nowadays.

I used to have Saudi customers, whose wives even had their veiled eye slits covered by a lace visor. That was very hard to communicate with.

WillowTheWhisp · 15-10-2006, 22:58

I can only actually see one veiled face in that pic.

When we were in the desert I veiled my face too but that was to protect me from the sand.

garinda · 15-10-2006, 23:13

I found this, which I found quite interesting.

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~elguindi/Vei...ivateWomen.htm

shillelagh · 15-10-2006, 23:37

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

That is an article in the daily mail yesterday. A woman wore the burqa for a day. Read it and see what you think.

garinda · 15-10-2006, 23:44

I think I'm going to start donning the robes of a monk, and wear sunglasses with it.

Neil · 15-10-2006, 23:48

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I can only actually see one veiled face in that pic.

And it looks like it was added afterwards. Look how straight it is along the bottom.

mthead · 15-10-2006, 23:50

Think you'll have to wear that get up at the next meet Rindy.Especially if you end up going around Ossie after.It will go down well in the bay horse

garinda · 15-10-2006, 23:51

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Think you'll have to wear that get up at the next meet Rindy.Especially if you end up going around Ossie after.It will go down well in the bay horse

It'll shield me from Peter Britcliffe's gaze as well.

garinda · 15-10-2006, 23:53

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And it looks like it was added afterwards. Look how straight it is along the bottom.

Well it wasn't me with the Tippex, just trying to score a cheap point, or otherwise I would have done them all one, slightly more dashingly well designed at that.

mthead · 15-10-2006, 23:54

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It'll shield me from Peter Britcliffe's gays as well.

Is that not what you meant Rindy

garinda · 15-10-2006, 23:57

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Is that not what you meant Rindy

Certainly not, and don't you expect no tip the next time you are ferrying the Tory top brass about.

steeljack · 16-10-2006, 00:55

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Originally Posted by garinda

Certainly not, and don't you expect no tip the next time you are ferrying the Tory top brass about.

when you refer to the Tory top brass are you going back to your days in London and using this definition ....

'Brass' for hooker comes from cockney rhyming slang. Brass is short for a 'brass rubber' which rhymes with scrubber, another term for a prostitute.

just curious

WillowTheWhisp · 16-10-2006, 07:51

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

That is an article in the daily mail yesterday. A woman wore the burqa for a day. Read it and see what you think.

That's quite an interesting article but I wish I could find the one I read a little while ago which was actually a muslim woman trying out the same experiment. She normally wore western dress but had a friend who wore the niqab so decided to try it just as an experiament. One of her main observations (which this reporter also mentioned) was that friends no longer recognised her if she passed them in the street. She said "Hi" to her next door neighbour and he looked beyond her looking for a familiar face.

I'm so used to coming across people in town when I go out and stopping for a bit of a chat. If you don't recognise your friends as you float past each other swathed in black such simple pleasures will never exist. It must be a lonely life. I certainly don't believe that I could cope with that.

I can see what the reporter is saying that it can be a backlash against the mode of dress seen as western culture which is against muslim standards. (The outfits described by the mother of a friend of mine as a "topless backless evening strap".) Being LDS I have certain dress standards too and it's sometimes hard to find clothes in the shops which are suitable. We adapt by layering or making some adjustments at home with our sewing machines and needles and cotton. It can be done. There's a sort of joke about the "Milly, Molly Mormon" woman dressed like something out of "Little House on the Prairie" but I don't think we're that bad. You'd hardly notice us except that our hemlines may be a little lower, our necklines a little higher and our shoulders covered.

I was also thinking about the Amish in the USA. They have their own mode of dress and shun most modern devices and appliances. They co-exist alongside others yet keep themselves very much to themselves, more so than muslims living in this country, and yet there seems to be no antagonism towards them.

AccyJay · 16-10-2006, 11:08

There you go Willow.

http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/herita..._the_veil.html