women followed fashion trends
Before the Islamic Revolution of 1979, there was no strict dress code such as the current one, which requires women by law to cover their hair and wear modest “Islamic” clothing. “Women were allowed to wear what they wanted,” she says. Her testimony comes at a time when protests are ongoing in dozens of cities due to the recent death of a twenty-two-year-old woman who was arrested by the Iranian so-called the morality police, a group charged with enforcing the Islamic dress code.
Rahimpur was born after the revolution, but the experience of her parents and relatives and her work as a journalist allowed her to deal in detail with the transformation her country went through after the fall of the Shah. It was a transformation that, in the early years, went beyond clothes, as journalist Feranak Amidi, in charge of women’s issues at the BBC World Service, also points out.
