'Revealing' women's gowns confiscated
Long black gowns worn by all Saudi women may well fit head-to-toe, but 82,000 so far have offended Saudi authorities’ Islamic fashion sensibilities for being too decorative, too filmy or too revealing of feminine curves beneath.
The Ministry of Commerce confiscated 82,000 of the gowns, known as abayas, from stores and factories after inspections in the capital of Riyadh and the Red Sea port city of Jiddah revealed many did not conform to Islamic law, al-Jazirah daily newspaper reported on Sunday.
They were not plain and opaque or were provocatively clingy, it said.
Strict Islamic laws in the conservative Muslim kingdom stipulate women must cover themselves completely in public.
Religious police patrol the streets to enforce morality rules.
