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In reply to the discussion: What is your stance on burkinis or headscarves on French (or American) beaches (or streets)? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)I think these folks are residents.
Vacationers--especially the wealthy ones--toss those chadieris and abayahs in a sack and toss that in the back corner of the closet when they go on holiday. They dress to the nines, hit all the fashion houses, spend like drunken sailors, and kick up their heels. Sure, there are always the potentates that bring the four wives in bedsheets along, but there are also plenty of Saudi women who style it up like mad once the aircraft leaves Saudi airspace--it's almost a joke.
Perhaps the Nice police should consider putting a few women on their beach patrol. Simply for optics.
You've got men telling women to put it on (or they can't go out) and others telling 'em to take it off.
I think if the French hold the line on this, they may be able to give women the ammunition they need to say to their fathers and husbands who are insisting they wrap themselves up in absurd fashion, "I can't wear that--it's against the law" so they aren't stuck sweating like pigs in too much clothing under a hot sun.