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Burqa faces Western dress, imports
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days ? cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the full-body cloak for a simple headscarf.
Alim Nazery, who has traded in burqas in Kabul for 27 years, remembers selling at least 50 burqas a day when the Taliban were in charge. Now he says he sells 20 a day, ...
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Sep. 30, 2018 8:08 pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days ? cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the full-body cloak for a simple headscarf.
Alim Nazery, who has traded in burqas in Kabul for 27 years, remembers selling at least 50 burqas a day when the Taliban were in charge. Now he says he sells 20 a day, mostly to women from the provinces.
On one wall of his store in the Old Town market hang Afghan-made burqas costing from 1,000 to 3,000 Afghanis (about $20-$60), and on the other wall Chinese-made robes for 500-800 Afghanis ($10-$15).
