Why the veil is in vogue these days
The veil as a fashion item has long been relegated to four camps: funerals, weddings, religious women, and the overly dramatic. But all of that is changing now, as the veil is making its way to the mainstream. This means that instead of a traditional niqab, many Muslim women now have the option for something a bit more sartorially inclined and straight from the 2015 runways.
“When a woman puts on a veil, there is a feeling of femininity that transpires,” said Fashion Writer Rebecca Suhrawardi, who has written for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue India, and more. “And a veil’s delicacy is transporting--it feels like a bit of a nod to a time when women's fashion was much more glamorous, or even the reference to milestone moments like weddings. There is also this seduction that happens when a woman dons a veil, there is this mystery that takes place from within the masking and the peek-a-boo nature of a veil.”
And that’s what’s happened on the runways this year.
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Amina Akhtar