Today these attacks are rare. For many centuries women in Iran have practiced modesty by wearing the chador, a semicircular piece of dark cloth that is wrapped expertly around the body and head and gathered at the chin. The headscarf has been transformed into a hood modeled after a similar garment in North Africa called a magna'eh. In adopting this dress, women have been wonderfully inventive. The manto, though dark in color, is often made of silk or other fine fabric, embroidered, finely tailored, with elegant closures.
Women wear it over jeans or other Western fashions.
The magna'eh may also be of satin and turned out in fashionable colors like eggplant or dark teal. In short, the Iranian women have made virtue out of necessity and created high fashion from their concealing garments. Many older Westernized women decry any restrictions on their dress, but younger women who grew up in the Islamic Republic take it in stride. I'm far more concerned about press restrictions than about dress codes. Indeed, the universal modest dress code may have helped women from conservative families.