Originally Posted by snazzy

I don't know if it kills the purpose- the people with a purpose will always find a way for that purpose- i.e. if a person truly wears one to hide their shape, they will wear a loose abaya that is not revealing. but many of these abayas look like black dresses, especially with the empire waists and the belts that highlight the shape. Frankly I don't care what people wear, as long as they don't think they're being more religious when they wearing tight fitting abayas that reveal the knee length skirts they're wearing underneath when they walk (i saw this when i was in the middle east). This is by no means generalizing to all fashion forward abaya-wearing girls, its just some take it further than others. One aunty (in US) asked us to bring an abaya when we went to mid east, then when we brought it for her she sent it to pakistan to have it altered to be really tight fitting. that way people can say: wow she's religious, but she's still smokin'!