FASHION JIHAD: UNIV VA. STUDENTS DESIGN ABAYA, A CAGE,

The U.S. students made their first sketches and sent them to Qatar for initial critiques.

The cultural jihad continues apace. What's next? The medical school practicing clitorectomies? Has there been any political system as oppressive and contemptuous of women then Islam? Women are chattel in those damn sacks.

Fashion students at Va. university design abayas Yahoo hat tip Ewin

RICHMOND, Va. - The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: design an abaya, an enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women, that is stylish yet acceptable in Arab countries.

unk rock abaya — and perhaps a better understanding of cultural norms in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, where the university has had a campus for 10 years.

"We were trying to make a feeling of youth — but still be true to their culture," said Kendra Palin, a fashion design major who partnered with classmate Shelby Day to design an abaya with looped buttonholes, princess seams and a high waist. "Everything else had to be black, but the embellishment could be any color, and we used silver and blue."

Comments

[Stogie]

Pretty cool. Do they come in a mini with a plunging neckline?

[Jakesgramma]

The kicker on this one...

"Hopefully, if nothing else, those 20 people in my class have gained a more neutral approach to what goes on in the world," Guthrie said. "Just because the women wear this doesn't mean they're oppressed."

Just wait until you young-uns have to wear one full time or get severe beating... let's see what you say then.

[siddah]

Make a feeling of youth...what about the innocent victims who are no longer here as a result of terrorist attacks? What about them?
INsanity!

[allat]

ROTFL, No, 'ombe! (No, mon!) Can you imagine Latinas wearingthat? Cubana mamas down West New York or in Calle Ocho? Or defiant Chicanas and Puerto Ricanas? Ha, ha, ha! We got attitude!

[allat]

Oh, I'm talking like a gringo, now. It's Puertorriquenas!