Inter Fashion Dialogue

I've heard of inter faith Dialogue but students at Virginia Commonwealth University are participating in inter Fashion Dialogue. Their assignment was to design Abaya's for Qatari students. They created all kinds including Punk Rock Abayas. I really wish they had pictures. I think more schools should include this kind of dialogue. Because by using things like fashion we can come to a better understanding of each other. By working on an abaya, the students will start looking at it as a piece of clothing and as an identity and thereby be forced to reexamine their stereotypical perception of what it means when someone wears one.

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