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Photos Of Afghanistan's Past: Modernity Lost : NPR
The photos show women in demure scarves, but also in pencil skirts and other fashions of the 1950s and '60s. And just as striking is what some of the women are doing: buying records. Back then, Qayoumi tells NPR's Deborah Amos, Afghans favored songs by Western pop singers like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Tom Jones.
Those were the days before the country was ruled according to strict Islamic principles, although religion was part of Afghanistan's culture.
Photos Of Afghanistan's Past: Modernity Lost : NPR
The photos show women in demure scarves, but also in pencil skirts and other fashions of the 1950s and '60s. And just as striking is what some of the women are doing: buying records. Back then, Qayoumi tells NPR's Deborah Amos, Afghans favored songs by Western pop singers like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Tom Jones.
Those were the days before the country was ruled according to strict Islamic principles, although religion was part of Afghanistan's culture.
