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Originally Posted by Kymmy
One thing to note is that states like Saudi Arabia would for instance prohibit me from wearing certain items and even prevent me from driving..
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Indeed, as long as European women wore clothes which covered their shoulders, didn't show cleavage and wore at least proper shorts, they were left alone.
Mum and her friends used to wear t-shirts and shorts most of the time.
Saudi women didn't have to wear veils, but most did partly because it was a traditional cultural attire and partly because it kept the dust out of their faces.
Further out in the desert, some matriachs would wear metal veils, ornately decorated and passed down through the generations.
As for driving, considering dad's car was driven over by a large dumper truck one xmas morning, women not being able to drive isn't that bad a thing, for their own sake!
This is a place with 12" pavements to protect pedestrians after all
