(January 21, 2020 at 8:29 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: The whole point of modesty is not sticking out.
I'm not sure that this is true.
Suppose you were raised in a culture where showing your hair is considered immodest. If you then moved to Florida, you would still feel immodest showing your hair, even though everyone around you does it.
So in that case it would be your modesty that causes you to stick out.
More troubling to me are the people who would tease or call out the woman wearing the head scarf because she is sticking out. One of the reasons my midwest hometown is unpleasant is because the people there enforce an unofficial dress code. If you wear the wrong kind of thing, people will actually yell sarcastic things at you from moving cars. The last time I was there I was wearing a black suit, as I do every day in Japan, and people made it clear that I should wear only a tee shirt and jeans, as everyone there does.