Black hijabs are read as morbid while plain black clothing is fashionable

Evidence

Muslim women who wear the hijab felt they were perceived as morbid for wearing a black hijab even though in a big city like Chicago, it is viewed as fashionable to wear black. In other words, they are held to different standards of fashion and beauty. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 541

Categorization

• CANDY: A small ironic social observation — the same color means chic on non-Muslims and morbid on hijabi women — easy to retell at a dinner table.
• XREF: Fits the reader’s prior concern with how the fear touches bodies — the hijab becomes a lens through which even neutral aesthetics are racialized.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 541