Female tourists don't have to wear abayas, and Saudi women can, in theory, wear colored and/or open abayas so long as they're dressed modestly underneath.
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Last month women wore their abayas inside out in protest.
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We changed in the bathroom stall to hijabs and abayas.
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The collection of hijabs and abayas were unveiled on website Style.
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Inside, Brazilians donned abayas, a type of traditional Qatari women's garb.
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Jeans and abayas evaporate, divulging string bikinis, tankinis and swim shorts.
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Selling her homemade abayas brings her fulfillment and a little extra income.
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Most recently, luxury brand Dolce & Gabbana began to sell hijabs and abayas.
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In January, the brand revealed its first collection of hijabs and abayas.
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Women in colorful and/or open abayas riding bicycles along pedestrian walkways.
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Women wear more colourful (and sometimes open) abayas, a mandatory robe-like overgarment.
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They have distributed tens of thousands of black abayas, or full-body coverings.
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Baristas de ambos sexos trabajan juntos y las comensales se quitan las abayas.
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You often see old women in black abayas standing outside restaurants in a line.
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They emerged from the house in black abayas and hijabs, towing luggage and weeping.
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The house debuted its "Abaya Collection," which features luxurious abayas and hijabs, over the weekend.
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Well, Dolce & Gabbana's inaugural collection of hijabs and abayas certainly seems like a solid start.
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I met two young women in black abayas and face veils who were studying physics.
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On Twitter, Saudi women posted pictures of themselves in abayas that looked similar to Mrs.
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Rules about abayas, the long (and traditionally black) robe previously required by law, were relaxed.
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They all wore abayas, the baggy gowns Saudi women wear to hide their forms in public.
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The women were still dressed according to ISIS decree, fully covered in black hijabs and abayas.
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Outside of Jeddah and diplomatic areas of Riyadh, I did not see any women without abayas.
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She said it was great to see a few other women also wearing their abayas inside out.
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They pulled on jeans they'd bought in secret and walked out of the house without their abayas.
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Many were still wearing the black abayas and face veils, which were mandatory in areas the militants controlled.
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In front of him, the dim room was a sea of black: black abayas, head scarves, niqabs, gloves.
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It's so festive and the people are dressed in their best abayas and of course wearing make up.
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Open abayas over long skirts or jeans are also becoming more common in some parts of the country.
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Dolce & Gabbana is taking culture into consideration with its latest collection by launching a line of hijabs and abayas.
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Shop buildings painted with bright purple, orange and blue rhombuses offer clove cigarettes, mobile phones, abayas and much more.
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The 24-year-old, who lives in Nigeria, has crafted ultra-stylish hijabs and abayas in pint-sized proportions.
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Prince Mohammed said in March that women only needed to dress modestly and were not required to wear abayas.
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There have been high-fashion collections inspired by the Middle East and ready-to-wear lines featuring hijabs and abayas.
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The men wear stiff, crocheted hats and maintain long beards, and the women dress in colorful, cotton two-piece abayas.
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Though Saudi Arabia still faces some of the world's most restrictive laws against women, in recent years some Saudi women have begun to switch out the traditional black abayas for more colorful ones and open abayas worn over jeans or long skirt are becoming more widespread in parts of the country, according to Reuters.
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Women in public places in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, wear abayas — loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of piety.
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Abayas were embellished with leather straps, transforming nun-like uniforms, said the publicity, into "edgy urban wear perfect for warrior princesses".
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The women began wearing gloves and socks with their black abayas and niqabs and could show only their eyes in public.
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Emirati women are moving away from the simple black shaylas (head scarves) and abayas (cloaks) Al Qasimi remembers from her childhood.
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In Jeddah, a more liberal port city, seamstresses design abayas with bright colours and women smoke water-pipes out of doors.
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Most Muslim women in the West don't wear abayas and many pious Muslim and married Jewish women don't cover their hair.
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"More than 90 percent of pious Muslim women in the Muslim world do not wear abayas," Sheikh Mutlaq said on Friday.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in March that women only needed to dress modestly and were not required to wear abayas.
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The Ministry of Commerce has ordered tailors to stop adding such elements into men's clothing and into the abayas, worn by women.
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DKNY and Tommy Hilfiger have designed Ramadan collections, and Dolce & Gabbana sells abayas, long outer garments, priced at more than $2,000 apiece.
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The women are in long black abayas and veils; many of the men wear traditional Malian garb or North African-style djellabas.
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Female activists, wearing niqabs and abayas, draped their black-clad bodies with banners boldly displaying the flag of the southern separatist movement.
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But instead of the usual bearded men with long hair, the fighters, clad in black abayas and niqabs, appeared to be women.
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A separate female-only tent was set up for women who wanted to take off their traditional abayas and show off their costumes.
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In London, my interactions with girls in floor-skimming abayas are a study in avoidance; we simply pretend not to see one another.
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In New York City, six Indonesian designers presented headscarves and full-length abayas as part of their collections at Fashion Week in September.
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Saudi women have started wearing more colorful abayas in recent years, the light blues and pinks in stark contrast with the traditional black.
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In big cities, women have added streaks of colour and patterns to the black abayas or cloaks that the state requires them to wear.
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And since Saudi Arabia, the Muslim world's most conservative state, began letting women add dashes of colour to their black abayas, design has mushroomed.
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The Italian house debuted an array of abayas (loose, full-length, robe-like garments worn by some Muslim women) and hijabs (headscarves) on Style.
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At a more luxury price point, Dolce & Gabbana launched a line of hijabs (headscarves) plus abayas (loose, full-length, robe-like garments) in January.
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As I changed into my basic gym wear, I noticed that the coat rack held long black coats, black abayas and the blue burqas.
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I started covering myself with abayas and niqabs before it was even required, simply because I wanted to emulate and please my religious teachers.
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They entered the bathroom, Jauhiainen said, ditched both their phones and abayas, got in Jauhiainen's car, and headed for Muscat, the capital of neighboring Oman.
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Despite the all-female audiences, a social media ban was in place so photos of women without their abayas, or floor-length overgarments, wouldn't leak.
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At one point, two teenage girls, wearing abayas and head scarves, stood on their chairs to see better and sing along, and were reprimanded by security.
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The rules on segregating the sexes have been unofficially relaxed, and Prince Muhammad has suggested that women need not wear flowing abayas (full-length gowns) in public.
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While every woman I spoke to supported the rights of women to wear more liberalized fashion trends, most remained in black abayas — including at the fashion shows.
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Some women now wear more colorful abayas, the loose fitting robes worn over their clothes that are usually black, or no longer wear the robes at all.
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So, we'd arrive covered in hijabs and abayas, only to shed our outer layers and inhibitions, and then dance the night away without the leering gaze of men.
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Women were required to cover themselves head to toe in black abayas; cigarettes and alcohol were banned; and the militants targeted anyone who spoke out against their authority.
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With recent reforms, women in some cities have begun to don more colorful abayas, sometimes trimmed with lace and velvet or left open to reveal long skirts or jeans.
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While overseas in Saudi Arabia, McSally also challenged a rule that required female service members to wear traditional abayas — long-sleeve, floor-length dresses — when they traveled off base.
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The wealthiest among them still own French chateaus, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world's biggest yachts.
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Many of the women wore their hair uncovered and their abayas open over jeans and sneakers, styling them more like long, fluid jackets than the traditional all-covering gowns.
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Islamic bookstores selling titles like "300 Questions for Husbands and Wives" are sandwiched between boutiques stocking $35 abayas with embossed palm tree borders, and banks offering Shariah-based services.
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In a country that favors abayas for women over almost anything else, Trump stepped off Air Force One in the jumpsuit, which appeared to be from British designer Stella McCartney.
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As for the special collection of Abayas designed by Dolce & Gabbana, I saw it a nice gesture and an attempt to appeal to a large segment of the fashion market.
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On weekdays, between fajr and dhuhr prayers, the drafty main hall grows raucous as dozens of women in black abayas and colored hijabs arrive in waves of banter and warm greetings.
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In public, most women wear baggy black gowns called abayas, designed to hide their forms, as well as veils that cover their hair and faces, with only thin slits for their eyes.
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There were even some people (women in abayas, and a couple Orthodox Christian priests) in black robes; none of them, however (at least to the best of my knowledge), were carrying lightsabers.
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They used to descend on stores that sell the shapeless black gowns called abayas imposed on Saudi women, scoop up those with any adornment — a trace of color, beads — and burn them.
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Off to one side stood the subject of the kerfuffle, several women, in sweeping black abayas and veils that covered all but their eyes, and three children: a girl and two boys.
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Tourism chief Ahmed al-Khateeb told Reuters in an interview ahead of the official announcement that abayas will not be mandatory for women tourists but modest dress is, including at public beaches.
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Her eclectic approach caught the attention of The Sunday Times of London and led to a job at a fashion house in Dubai called Shashamahné (now closed), where Ms. Beydoun designed abayas.
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What I learned from the mostly young women, elegantly sheathed in dark abayas and oversize designer sunglasses, is that many of the trainers received their licenses while studying in the U.S. or Europe.
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The Duchess, formerly known as Camilla Parker-Bowles, was provided with a security team consisting of women wearing traditional hijab and abayas during her royal visit to the United Arab Emirates this week.
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"When I saw Western women ... they just had the abayas (long cloaks) on and no head scarf," she says, adding that she, too, did not don a headscarf for most of the trip.
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The state of play: Even though Minaj is known for her provocative dances and lyrics, the women that would have attended the concert were expected to dress in abayas (long conservative gowns) and headscarves.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Saudi campaigners have urged Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to loosen the conservative kingdom's strict dress code after women took to social media wearing their abayas inside out in protest.
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One of the company's technology demonstrations, a video obtained by NBC News, shows what purports to be live camera feeds monitoring people, including children and women wearing hijabs and abayas, as they walk through Jerusalem.
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It has even promoted the items as part of its mainstream media presence (as it should!), with abayas featuring heavily on the brand's Instagram account alongside the usual mix of backstage shots and catwalk collections.
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In recent years, the area has been transformed into a little South Asia, with a mosque and a large halal grocery store, where women in abayas and niqabs shop for Medina dates and Afghani naan.
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This new culture has attracted a diverse mix of homemakers and socialites, bankers and doctors, who incorporate religion into their lives, but also into their lifestyles, buying everything from sequined abayas to custom prayer mats.
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Even in Burayda, the bastion of Saudi Arabia's puritanical rite, women have cut slits for their eyes in veils that hitherto fully covered their faces, and let their abayas slip from their heads to their shoulders.
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To Stefano Gabbana's credit, his personal, unfiltered Instagram contains the kind of racial, regional, and age diversity that many brands pay professional outreach teams to help them recreate, showing women in abayas, bikinis, locs, and wrinkles.
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Muchas de las mujeres llevaban el cabello descubierto y sus abayas abiertas sobre pantalones de mezclilla y tenis, vistiéndolas como si fuesen chaquetas largas y ligeras y no las túnicas tradicionales que cubren todo el cuerpo.
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And that's why aged 210 and 214, they stole back their own passports, hid their abayas under the bedcovers, snuck out of their holiday home and boarded a flight from Colombo to Melbourne, via Hong Kong.
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The campaign marks the latest protest against strict dress codes for women in Saudi Arabia, who are required to wear abayas - loose, all-covering robes - in public and in most of the country to cover their hair and faces.
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After alluding to the collection last summer, the Italian fashion house has finally delivered images of headscarves and abayas (loose, full-length, robe-like garments worn by some Muslim women) comprised of satin weave charmeuse and sheer georgette pieces.
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Mr. al-Khateeb told Reuters that abayas — the body-shrouding robe that must be worn in public by Saudi women — would not be mandatory for female foreign tourists but that modest dress would be required, including at public beaches.
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JEDDAH (Reuters) - Women in black abayas and fluorescent orange vests stood at the gates at King Abdullah Stadium, welcoming people into the family section that, for the first time in Saudi Arabia, allowed women to attend a men's soccer match.
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Other luxury labels are bound to follow suit with their own spates of high-end hijabs and abayas soon enough, though it remains to be seen how designer takes on modest fashion will jive with the Muslim customers they're vying for.
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Lately, the hijab has received more attention than ever from the fashion industry: In January, Dolce & Gabbana released its inaugural collection of hijabs and abayas, making it one of the first luxury labels to specifically cater to its Middle Eastern customer.
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And, just after a cinematic short film featuring the Lebanese designer Elie Saab and the model Elisa Sednaoui amid ornate dining rooms and lush walled gardens, there is this: the definitive edit of this season's most stylish abayas (robelike dresses).
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People here have tried to show unity since the news of the plot broke, holding vigils and standing together — white residents next to Somali women in colorful abayas — on the sidewalks with posters that praise their town and the local police.
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In a conservative Muslim country, however, where Emirati women are expected to wear abayas -- wide fitting robes -- and headscarves in public, Lari performing routines in a tight-fitting figure skating outfit in front of men was not an easy task.
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The German plan would not ban shawls or abayas that cover the body and are often worn with a hijab, a head scarf that does not cover the face, which German officials acknowledge would not win approval from the country's constitutional court.
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For them, a mixed-gender beach is to be avoided; those who go with their families roast in the sun fully clothed in hijabs and long-sleeved shirts and pants or abayas, the full-length caftans popular among devout Lebanese Muslim women.
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Meanwhile, yoga still appears on television, in schools and in park sessions, with women meditating while wearing shalwar kameezes, or full abayas and hijabs, and men with long beards and shalwar kameezes performing sun salutations next to men in track pants and T-shirts.
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In A State of Disappearance (2014), Al Dowayan addressed the relationship between Saudi media and women, such as how newspapers always use the same stock images of Saudi women completely cloaked in black abayas, never bearing in mind the stark lack of association between their headlines and the images.
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Some Danes bristle at what they see as ethnic enclaves: About 238 percent of new immigrants lived in the nation's two largest cities, Aarhus and Copenhagen, where Muslim women in abayas and men in prayer caps stand out among the blond and blue-eyed crowds on narrow streets.
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The sale of oil provides billions of dollars in annual allowances, public-sector sinecures and perks for royals, the wealthiest of whom own French chateaus and Saudi palaces, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world's biggest yachts out of sight of commoners.
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The sale of oil provides billions of dollars in annual allowances, public sector sinecures and perks for royals, the wealthiest of whom own French chateaus and Saudi palaces, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world's biggest yachts out of sight of commoners.
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So it is of no surprise that in the last 18 months, a host of Western brands have made their own efforts to get into this booming market, like DKNY, which created a Ramadan capsule collection in 2014; to Tommy Hilfiger; and Dolce & Gabbana, which included a range of luxury hijabs and abayas, made from the same fabrics as the rest of its collection.
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