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Mon 03 Mar 2009Young Saudi women reinvent the abaya as a fashion statement
RIYADH LETTER: Women’s attempts to decorate their full-length black robes are angering Saudi’s religious police
IN SAUDI Arabia they say you can tell a lot about a woman from the way she wears her abaya. The cut and fall of the floor-length, long-sleeved black robe she is obliged to wear over her clothes in public from the onset of puberty can be interpreted in several ways.
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