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Veils and Sales: Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail

Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 17:24

Reina Lewis, 'Veils and Sales: Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail' in Fashion Theory, Vol 11, Issue 4, pp. 443-442, 2007.

This article examines in the post-7/7 context the presence in London shops of sales assistants who wear the veil. It considers them "as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and ethnicizing."