Fancy dress
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latteliberal is having a birthday party in a couple of weeks. The theme of the party is 'POWER CORRUPTS: Emperors, Empresses, Concubines and Eunuchs'. Fancy dress in strongly encouraged. As a mentioned at elise's party months ago, I have a strong urge to buy a niqab and other Muslim garb as a fancy dress costume. This costume would be a good in that it would be tznius and relatively cheap to put together (particularly as I already have an arab style dress from when El Al left my clothes in London). It would also be particularly suitable for this party. On top of all this, I think a niqab would be quite a cool thing to own. However, I have a niggling feeling that wearing a niqab as fancy dress would be VERY VERY BAD AND WRONG. I'm not sure exactly why but it might have something to do with Edward Said. On the other hand, if I dressed as a nun to go to a party (or indeed Sing-Along-A-Sound-of-Music) I wouldn't feel that I was being offensive or derogatory to real nuns.
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Anyway, to the point of this post.
latteliberal is having a birthday party in a couple of weeks. The theme of the party is 'POWER CORRUPTS: Emperors, Empresses, Concubines and Eunuchs'. Fancy dress in strongly encouraged. As a mentioned at elise's party months ago, I have a strong urge to buy a niqab and other Muslim garb as a fancy dress costume. This costume would be a good in that it would be tznius and relatively cheap to put together (particularly as I already have an arab style dress from when El Al left my clothes in London). It would also be particularly suitable for this party. On top of all this, I think a niqab would be quite a cool thing to own. However, I have a niggling feeling that wearing a niqab as fancy dress would be VERY VERY BAD AND WRONG. I'm not sure exactly why but it might have something to do with Edward Said. On the other hand, if I dressed as a nun to go to a party (or indeed Sing-Along-A-Sound-of-Music) I wouldn't feel that I was being offensive or derogatory to real nuns.Nothing else to do than to ask for the guidance of the masses with the help of ticky boxes.
[Poll #861525]