I haven’t seen a full chador on any woman yet, though every local woman covers at least her hair.

Many women (perhaps half, but it varies from neighborhood to neighborhood and I am taking no formal survey) do not cover their faces at all.

Many women also do wear the familiar and infamous blue burka, but they wear it as a kind of shawl, covering only their head and shoulders, hanging open in the front revealing embroidered dresses, high heels, jewelry, freedom.