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By Sara Schreiber

Goltune – With   a nod to the past and an eye for the future, one the Iranian fashion designers remembers miniskirts in Tehran, and celebrates the new wave of designers who are fearlessly reimagining modest fashion.

Iranian-American novelist Saideh Pakravan fondly remembers walking the streets of Tehran in a thigh-high mini skirt.

In fact, that was a typical look for her, and only on a few occasions did she receive a pinch on the bottom out in public. “That was pretty much the norm in all Arab countries,” says Pakravan, who now lives and writes in McLean, Virginia.

Pakravan is the author of novels The Arrest of Hovegda: Stories of the Iranian Revolution and Azadi, Protests in the Streets of Tehran.

“There is no way to push women into submission”

Prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, that’s just how it was.

Miniskirts were all the rage and no one thought twice about bikinis on the city