During my visit to Iran, I saw this is the "in" trend currently. Well I would say that in Malaysia too. For me wearing tight pants or leggings will make a woman looks neat. In Iran normally women wear mantou or long dress in fllowing the dress code. When it's being match with leggings which is tight, it will make you look fashionable. It is contrast if you wear leggings and tight short shirt which is for me unacceptable because you will show all your body curves/fats/butts whatever you have. Of course in Islamic dress code leggings is not suitable but for me it is ok. I wear tight pants with long dress for which I don't over showing my body. However, in Iran somehow i saw that the girls trying to push the boundaries of dress code by wearing very thin leggings that when she bend her knee, you can see the skin color. And for me it's an eeeeewww fashion. You wear hijab, nice. You wear mantou/long dress, nice. But you wear a socks with that? And you think you are one of those supermodels with long skinny legs?It is so unacceptable for me.
When I went to Mazyar Fallahi concert, there were some moral polices at the entrance of the hall. They checked dress code. In front of me there were 3 girls. Suddenly the police asked one of them out from the line and I heard what the police said. Ya mantou bepush ya shalvar bepush. (Wear either mantou/long dress or pants). I looked at that girl. She wears a very tight, thin leggings with tight, short mantou (above knee). I don't know whether she was allowed to enter in the end or not. Never play with Iranian polices. They arenot like Malaysian polices :-P Yes, me passed the police checking with flying colors of course haha.
I understand how hard womens in Iran have to face the reality of dressing and fashion. They have very minimum rights to wear what they want. But for me, they all look nice with their fashion in Iran. Modest and neat. If I have to live in Iran, I will have no problem with the dress code. In fact I love to wear mantou even in Malaysia. For leggings, it's ok to wear as long as you know the boundaries especially for woman ho wears hijab and with condition that make sure your legs are nice and lean. If you have that chicken drumstick leg just stay with your normal pant or else you will look like a chicken wrapped.
Taa daafe baad...khoda negahdar
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4 comments:
I agree with you, wearing support with manto and hijab looks fool, but when the government does not let the people decide for their wearing, how do you expect them to obey the rules? in Malaysia wearing hijab is not obligatory and we can see mothers with hijab and girls without, although they are Muslems...but in Iran all women must wear the hijab, muslems and non-muslems, and in the case they don't really like to wear it, they can do nothing!!!! they just can wear support with manto and hijab which is really crazy!!!! but we have to respect everyone's belief and don't laugh at them or call them anything for what they wear or do. we have to know that some girls, in iran or anywhere, don't like to wear hijab, but they must!!!!!!
@Anonymous hi anon, i bet you are an iranian. thank you for commenting. it's sad that iranian women don't have much right in clothing in their own country. however, they don't lose anything. in fact they are very pretty with their styles and modified version to suit the dress code. their wearings are so pleasant. if i want to compare malaysian women and iranian, iranian are much more well dressed both inside and outside iran. i really admire them especially their skills in makeup.
whatever the race is, as a woman we must know how to dress up nicely. with hijab or not. and most important is that we know the boundaries to be accepted in the community from the way we wear clothes. it's better than getting round eyes from people near us. we are what we wear.
Hi Azreen, I am an Iranian woman too, but I do not agree with you. you said: "they don't lose anything." of course we lose. we lose our freedom to not wearing manto and Hijab in the hot summer. Hijab should be something personal like as it is in Singapore and Malaysia not obligatory like Iran.
Hi,
In linguistics this is a naming process. The users of a language borrow a name from another language to name a nameless/imported object in their language. This phenomenon however can be affected by many linguistic and instinctive factors. One instinctive factor in human being is laziness. Laziness is the desire to make things easier and shorter. In the question you have raised, Iranians imported the objects "support leggings" and "support tights" more than half a century ago to their country, and named it "support". In this process two things happened. Firstly, they imported two objects, but generally called them "support" which is the first part of a two-part word. Secondly, they have change the grammar. In English, the clothes that have two separate parts are plural. In Persian, these clothes are treated with singular words. So, what happened is that Iranians borrowed an object and for naming it they used the first part of its original name "support", which also goes well with their language grammar. Therefore, when an Iranian calls these outfits "support" they are actually speaking Persian, not English.
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