OK, the writing on the picture might not be apparent to non-Bangla readers, but it's a picture I took last august under a footbridge near Ahsan Manjil (Pink Palace) in Old Dhaka.
The two signboards are called (from top)
Pakistani Burqa House, and New Lucky Burqa house. Pakistani Burqa house sells -
"modern design foreign-made burqas in Dubai, Saudi, Irani, pakistani and local style." They also sell "advocate" and "judge" gowns. By Comparision, lucky house only sells Saudi-style burqas.
Now, I don't have a single friend who wears Burqa, so I can't tell the difference between, say, Saudi style and Dubai style burqas, but I'm assuming there's a substantial difference. If you want to learn more about Hijab or veils, check out this website, which explains the requirements of the veil.
My personal opinion is that people should be allowed to express themselves. If they want to reveal who they are by wearing a Burqa, so be it. That's the market positioning that they feel comfortable with. I can not relate to it, but it makes no impression - alarm or approval - on me either way.
There's this Jethro Tull song called White Innocence which has a line like this, "A perfect hole was in her stocking, it made a perfect window to her heart", which, when I heard the song first in the 90s, seemed like the ultimate poetic description. Now, it sounds like a drug-induced desire of a pervert. I would rather look at someone's eyes for the window to the heart.
But then again hearts are complicated organs.
