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Originally Posted by Suheir
Yes, all the Spanish and Italian women at our Catholic church used to wear a black lace mantilla and most women wore a headscarf when they went out shopping - you weren't dressed without your headscarf and gloves!
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Many women wore hats out of doors or at worst head scarves when I was a child. Some even wore face veils with a dressy hat and in mourning. Always to church. We all wore school hats..no I am only 61 but the Victorian era lasted a long time.
I have seen more
local women with a face veil as well as hijab.
I am not sure why women should ever feel that is necessary or a good idea. In place of work you need
facial communication and especially working with children. A woman can be modest and show her face, surely?
The headscarf or a hat is always a good idea in the heat and I saw very few women in Luxor( actually 1 I think) wearing the Niqab...and I went over on the West bank not stayed just in the city.
Thank God, you saw a lot of smiling faces...who wants to hide a smile..a whole face smile?
But it's freedom to chose I suppose.As long as it isn't an imposition.
But I do understand the struggle in Turkey....after all Ataturk sought to give women a measure of freedom by dispensing with the veil.
To return to the modesty thing, a young mum wearing a very colourful red , navy and silver Niqab turned to me in M&S in toen and smiled with her lovely dark eyes..bet she could well do the same thing to a man.
