I think this is pretty cool.

I also think it's pretty unfair to just make the blanket statement that it is oppressive without fully understanding the context in which many of these women are choosing to wear these clothes.

Take, for example, many Turkish Muslim women who were encouraged to stop wearing headscarves (hajib) under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who have, in recent years, revolted against the westernization of their culture by choosing to again wear the hajib. I agree, of course, that many Muslim women are oppressed under governments that are, for all intents and purposes, cultural patriarchal regimes, but I disagree that a certain type of dress can be classified as oppressive to all women when it's not the same thing to all women.

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