The unassailable uniform, of course, is the classic black chador.

Nothing symbolizes the revolution more than the ankle-length black chador that covers all but a woman's face.

He told me I'd have to wear the black chador in public.

The uniform of revolutionary Islam is the classic black chador.

Intrigued, I stared at a woman in a black chador, who returned my stare, a challenge.

Their mother was dressed in a black chador, but the hood was pushed back.

In the back seat, a woman in a black chador had fallen to the floor; she was dead, too.

"Those papers all reported the reality of what's happening here," said a woman in a black chador, or cloak, who gave her name as Khavar.

For the true believers, the uniform of revolutionary Islam is the classic black chador.

My heart stopped; but there was her black chador, kneeling a little back from the circle, rigid with deportment.