This is Not Our Traditional Dress
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The brief and powerful film above is making the rounds of late, but not nearly enough. When I first watched it, I was stunned by the beauty of the women, and shocked at the intentional cloaking of their feminine grace and elegance. Traditional dress seems a birthright to me, and as an American woman never having been told to cover myself entirely when out in public, I wanted to find out why women wear the burqa.
Before that exploration, though, several countries have banned them, specifically because under all of that black cloth could be anyone, terrorist man or terrorized woman, either. Other countries cite religious symbolism or oppression as the reason for banning.
In Afghanistan, the women wear the chadaree, similar to the burqa, but with a small opening for the eyes. Before the Taliban took over, chadarees were rarely worn in the cities and public spaces. That sounds like an involuntary thing to me. If you’re a woman living in such a place, and you’ve been told that you can’t live here, buy food, or conduct your life here unless you wear that…what is the alternative?
If a Hollywood movie can be trusted, some women get together in such locations in book clubs or coffee cloches to shed the veils and enjoy showing their high fashion outfits to the other ladies in a safe space. I have no clue what the reality is. I would rather that all people be free to dress in their traditional clothing as they wish, but I do love the idea of a clandestine rebellion.
Globalists don’t like all that cultural individuality, and they certainly don’t like people standing up for themselves and being all friendly with one another…spreading information freely and generally enjoying life in peace. And I guess that they don’t appreciate beauty, either, or don’t want us to enjoy it, or one another.
Anyway…why do woman wear these coverings? I don’t imagine there will be very much about it from the women who feel most comfortable and safe in them. It’s understandable if that’s what they’ve always known. Clearly there are women all over the world who have to wear them in order to live in relative peace where they are, though, and I pray that such situations shift rapidly in our ever-changing reality.
The world needs much more beauty!
