Harrods and women in Burqa

Yesterday I went to Harrods before the Olympics Volleyball game and ended up splurging a little bit in the make up-section (no regrets), but while I was there, I noticed something interesting: Several muslim women, complete with traditional burqa — I don't know if it is still called burqa if it doesn't covers the face. They were dressed in those long, long sleeved black dressed that reveal nothing of their body, and their hairs were completely covered as well — paraded around the department store, modeling their brand glasses and bland handbags. That is all one could see of them, but I bet most of those women were wearing little Channel and Prada dresses underneath their burqas.

I thought those women, your average "posh" muslim women going about their businesses, were interesting because they are supposed to live separated from the word of men, yet they are still every bit as vain as I, dressed in a skirt that reveals my knees (Scandalous!). They still freak out about Louboutin shoes and McQueen dresses, they go into little splurging sprees inside the make-up department, same as me.  I other words, doesn't matter how their religions tries to surpress them, women will be women.

And maybe my surprise is do to the fact that you don't really see a lot of "posh"muslim girls in a daily basis, at least not in English, because most of the muslim population in England is impoverished, but I just thought that it was a wonderful thing that even under the constrain of their cultures and religions, those girls I saw at Harrods look the time to look themselves in the mirror and see beauty.

Aside: That made me remember of a scene in Sex and The City...  Not my favorite movies, but the way they managed to kind of explain muslim culture in 30 seconds (and the woman in burqa eating fries, which is something I had never pictured before) was really interesting...