Responses
This tab demonstrates how Muslims and others are challenging Western conceptions of beauty and fashion.
How Do You Express Yourself?
As a human-being we have multiple outlets of expression. Whether it's verbal, written, drawn, or worn, what you are doing is expressing yourself. And usually once you have expressed yourself, someone will have some sort of judgement of it – positive or negative. When a main form of expression – fashion – is more or less limited because of your religious standards, you are still expressing yourself, in terms of your religion.
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
What does "beauty" look like to you? Has it always looked the same way to you? Has your perception of what is "beautiful" changed with where you've lived, by our friends, or as you've aged? This video (1) allows us to travel back in time throughout the past 100 years of fashion and beauty in Iran. According to the World Factbook, Iran's main religious group is Muslim, 99.4% (2), however their modesty does not suppress their ambition to express themselves.
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