"Women didn't make that transition into Western dress because of social pressure."
The vast majority of women wear Western or traditional dress.
There is, after all, nothing sacred about Western dress per se.
I was one of the few in Western dress.
The Japanese were also taken with Western dress, he said.
Most of them wore Western dress and hip bags, they said.
A young woman in Western dress lectures tourists about the desert.
Madame Li stood behind him, small and wearing western dress now.
Increasingly though, western dress is instead worn under the aba.
Later you might go back to Western dress to make yourself less noticeable, because your faith is no longer a question.