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Doc’s figure is slim and athletic and in the shapeless khaki pants and shirts she wears she can usually “pass” for male here though if we were in Europe or America where women are a bit more liberated she would probably be recognized instantly as an attractive young woman.
But Moslem women must dress like “women”, period, and there are customs and rules here defining correct female dress.
Veils are apparently not mandatory and some of the younger girls dress in a very provocative “western” style: mini-skirts and lots of make-up—but at whatever age they always look like females.
Since I do almost all of the talking and we both wear our longish hair in ponytails, I guess she is often mistaken for the “lean silent type” of young man here.
Doc has traveled alone a lot and usually wears unsexy outfits like her present garb since she finds men-on-the-make: the traditional leering Mexican or groping Italian, boring.
Frankly, I am so accustomed to liberated young women in America that I never even noticed how she was dressed.
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