What? International Dress Code?

I try not to talk about the dress code, but if it makes international news...Once the police said that they were working with the Iranian fashion designers at the fashion show to create the wardrobe within the dress code law, I had to bring it up here.

"Crackdown in Iran over dress code."


"Fashion Police: Tehran police try to encourage women to adopt more conservative dress."

It's not even about showing individuality anymore. It's not even about being fashionable. If we take the situation to the bare bones, true, a dress code doesn't hurt anymore, but at the same time it doesn't help. Forcing someone to wear something, or do anything for that matter, without a benefit for them is questionable. So, we'll turn the table around, and question why the Iranian government is cracking down so hard on women who show hair and men who wear short sleeves. They're forcing taxi drivers not to drive women who were not in dress code. They're even taking people who argue back to court. You could be in prison for showing too much of your forehead in a taxi.

What's really interesting is that the police is even cracking down on the clothes shops who sell non-conservative clothing. The owners have been told that even maniquines have to abide by the dress code law. Imagine having been told that you have to chop off the breasts of the maniquines because they were showing too much in the formal dresses. Well, that's what happened. If they want women to lose their feminity, then they should make them equal to men. And if they don't want women to be equal to men, they at least let them have their feminity.

They want to suppress women. And it's sort of worked. A lot more women in Iran are not leaving the home anymore, because they're afraid of being arrested. They're taking back alleyways to get around to places to avoid being seen. For what purpose again?

I think it's getting absolutely ridiculous. The only practical reason that they bring up is that they are using this topic to distract people from other concerns like the "rising cost of living in Iran and increasing tension with the international community over the nuclear issue." But even then, how pathetic is that they use dress code to do something like that.


"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6596933.stm"
"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6213854.stm"