Adventure Divas: IRAN

A little motherly advice for traveling in Iran. Plus, a clandestine trip to the beauty shop.

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Like many of my comrades of western feminismo, I went to Iran obsessed with the veil, and a month later — a month of 100-plus degree days draped under black polyester — I left, still obsessed.
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Photo:
Julie Costanzo

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