The comments are based though, saying this was before the CIA toppled the democratically elected government or that only a tiny minority lived like this.
This was Iran under the Shah regime that USA put in place after coup-ing Mossadegh. The women being shown do belong to the upper class minority though which is why their attire is Western.
No, it was simply the fashion at the time. (I am an Iranian from a AT BEST low-to-middle class family) The religious nuts did keep to their old attire, but a lot of people took up the new fashion trends. Except for the abhorrent backwardness of the 1980s and early to mid 1990s (peak of IR power), the same still applies to this day.
Thanks. I looked up photographs from Iran in the 60s and what you said seems correct.
It also conveniently appeared on my feed despite not being subscribed to the community. What a coincidence!
Looks like your comment attracted the attention of some coomer downvoters
Female literacy/ higher education or the right to wear short shorts so western men can play pocket pool. Which is freedom, who is to say?
I wish someone had come and freed the west from hideous 1970s fashion. Now we've all got to live with photos of mom and dad in bellbottoms and polyester.
Their last ditch effort as genocidal settlers are being defeated like in South Africa and Zimbabwe is to cope and screech about it as it always was, so expect more of this because of Iran.
Now that they mention it, this would be a good time for me to educate you all on Iran. Thanks, Reddit!
Under the monarchy, women were forbidden from wearing traditional religious garb and would be stripped of it and beaten in public, because the shah wanted the country to appear more Western to appeal to chauvanists (like the people you find on
). After the ban ended, a stigma remained and women who dressed traditionally were assumed to be poor and uneducated.Never ask a liberal how the theocratic Islamic fundamentalist bloc came to power in Iran, or who gave them the funding and weapons to do so.
All to coup the monarchist who himself was put in power by a coup…
The public representation is more important than the ideology behind the process. Women take off their veils; they are emancipated.
To the liberal mind, there is no substance, everything is performative.
Kabul was extremely progressive by Middle East standards before the collapse of the communist government and the take over of fundamentalists armed by the US.
Weird how liberals never look at how that happened.
