The Burqa in Modern Afghanistan
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In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo, Nazar, right, a salesman at a burqa store, helps women to choose a burqa at a shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
Haji Hussain, 75, who colors clothing for 40 years, takes a freshly colored burqa out for drying in his small shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 15, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo, an Afghan woman shops for clothing in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. Despite advances in women's rights, Afghanistan remains a deeply conservative country and most women continue to wear the Burqa. But tradesmen say times are changing in Kabul at least, with demand for burqas declining as young women going to school and taking office jobs refuse to wear the cumbersome garments. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
Haji Hussain, 75, who colors clothing for 40 years, takes a freshly colored burqa out for drying outside his small shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 15, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo. an Afghan woman comforts the child of her friend as both wait to get in line to try on a new burqa in a shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
This Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo taken through the eye slit of a burqa, shows Afghan women in Burqa's shopping at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo, Alim Nazery, left, owner of a burqa store in Kabul's old town market for 27 years, bargains with an Afghan couple about the price of a new burqa in Kabul, Afghanistan. Alim, as well as a wholesale business, remembers selling at least 50 burqas a day when the Taliban were in charge and enforcing their strict morality rules. Now that number has dropped to 20 and most are sold to women who travel from areas outside Kabul to buy from him because of his reputation for quality. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo, an Afghan woman peers through the the eye slit of her burqa as she waits to try on a new burqa in shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo, an Afghan woman waits to get in line to try on a new burqa at a shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)
An Afghan woman in a burqa walks along a road on a windy day on the outskirts of Kabul April 16, 2013. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)
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