Indeed, the main message in her book, "Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress," is quite basic: Fashion among Muslim women, whether they are fully cloaked in a chador or wearing an Alexander ...

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All of these threads are explored in Muslim Fashions, an important exhibition currently at the de Young Museum. Modest fashion is a $44 billion industry, catering primarily to practicing Muslim women.

How Muslim women should dress has become a particular obsession of the authorities. In 2004, the country banned the hijab in state schools. Then in 2010, it passed a ban on full-face veils in public.