women followed fashion trends
The women’s rights movement had not come to the fore; women were subservient to men and had few rights. Women believed that not wearing a veil marked them as poor, rural, or nomadic; they considered it an insult to have the veil removed. By 1910, the women’s rights movement was founded and women began to agitate for self-determination, and this is reflected in the dress of the age.
By the start of the 1920s women still wore the hijab but it was now colorful, hair was more exposed with finger waves in view, and eyebrows were being plucked into the more fashionable curve. In the 1930s, Reza Shah came to power and decided that he would “modernize” one of his decrees was that all veils would be banned immediately. He believed that the veil inhibited women.
