Westernization of Iranian clothing...

Those pictures posted by Mughaal are not representative in the slightest of Western clothing, unless one presumes that all people in the west wear is underwear! lol

.  No, I am not ethnically Scottish as you may have observed had you read the first page of this thread and I also like to think of myself as well travelled, sophisticated and cosmopolitan! :P  I do live in Edinburgh and go to uni at the moment, however.   My point is not that those types of provocative garments do not exist, but that they are not mainstream.  People here, from what I have observed dawn garb not different from what I have seen in Boston, NY, London, DC or anywhere else in Europe. Save perhaps that they have a little more class than your average Scot.   I hasten to add that people from Edinburgh are generally not your average Scot either, on the whole...




Edited by Zagros - 09-Dec-2007 at 22:17

I render everyone resident in Scotland as suspect and contaminated by the notions of either Knox or Hume!

The sad truth is that about 80% of them wouldn't know what you'd be talking about.  why speak of the mainstream? In this case, because they define convention in such things as clothing.

and underscore that it is never advisable to be the first to adopt a fashion nor the last to abandon it!

Or in the case of my pet hate, skinny jeans, never to take it up int he first place on principle.

A great deal of women (teenage girls, ect) in the United States suffer from a lack of modesty in their clothing choices, which I find extremely unattractive. Thongs everywhere, especially on girls that probably should not be wearing thongs.

You Iranians have it easy! Imagine tho horror of witnessing a 160lb woman in a short skirt, thong, and a belly shirt (two sizes too small) which reads "#1 Bitch" or something to that extent. It's horrifying...

What! Reveal fat ankles and flabby thighs...by all the saints! The mystery of the sexual has nothing to do with how much flesh you flaunt before an unsuspecting passerby; and given present "tastes" I would throw borqas and kaftans over what passes as trendy on today's streets. Let us face it, dress has always been an expression of self-respect essentially (and in many instances an assertion of wealth), hence, there is little difference between the sense of the proper in Islam and the appearance of whoredom in a Western context on encountering either Brittany Spears or Chakira out for a public stroll! Not to date myself, but I still recall the reaction of young Spanish males when Swedish tourism first hit the beaches of La Costa de la Luz back in the 1960s...

clothing certainly is a way of assimilating ppl of another culture, take china for example, the manchurians first..

Normally I'm not too fond of so-called Islamic clothing, but looking at the two women/goblins on the left one must be thankful they decided to leave their miniskirts at home that day.

And criticizing people for trying to look attractive is upside down. Our beauty makes up a significant part of how we are evaluated by others and it is always easier to love what it is beautiful than what is not. If you have a good body it only makes sense to wear clothing that shows it off, if you don't have a good body it makes sense to wear something that makes it look like you do. This way you'll get that job you wanted, attract the love of your life and maybe get a grade higher from your professor (yeah I actually overheard a professor in Latin once saying he gave a girl one grade higher than she deserved for being cute).

Human nature, resist it and live in frustration or embrace it and realize that no humans truly desire equality, morals or any form of self-denial. Rather we want power, wealth, pleasure, beauty and intellect, all of which radiate from our exterior being.

I know, maybe they're not really that ugly but they were a bit unfortunate with their facial expressions.