Muslim women’s black hijabs are judged by stricter standards than non-Muslims’ black clothing

Evidence

In the New York Times article, Tierney says that people who live in New York wear black for a multitude of reasons, including its practicality (hides dirt), its effect of making people look thinner, and how it is seen as elegant (Tierney 1994). 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…, 540

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the prior ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ article on cross-cultural dress norms and class/identity signaling — here the same dynamic is racialized.