eastiseverywhere:100 years of Iranian beauty in one minuteEvery style tells a story.I’ve been in lov
eastiseverywhere:100 years of Iranian beauty in one minuteEvery style tells a story.I’ve been in love with this video since the day it was released. I’d known for a while that they were gonna do a follow-up to their excellent videos on the changing fashions of white and Black American women, but I had no idea they were gonna go out into left field and humanise one of the so-called Axis of Evil countries:Cut.com100 Years of Beauty - Episode 3: Iran (Sabrina)US (2015)[Source]Yahoo! Beauty reports:“When we were choosing our third piece we wanted to showcase a culture where that link between beauty and politics was most explicit. Generally, American media is pretty insular. People from other countries are reduced to tropes. We wanted to show that Iran, just like our country, has never been static. The culture has changed a lot over time,” Cut.com’s Mike Gaston told Yahoo Beauty. “And hopefully, those changes would surprise people enough that they’d want to know why and do a little work on their own to find out more.”…Check out their Pinterest page, which has reference images:1910s[Source]Seems that some women actually used to pencil in their unibrows!The Yahoo! article also contains annotations on the looks:The hijab wasn’t always part of the daily routine of Iranian women. In the ‘30s, the King of Iran outlawed the veil, and women who felt uncomfortable with letting their hair out would wear stylish hats, like fedoras. From 1925 to 1979, when Iran and France had close relations during the Pahlavi dynasty, we can witness strong French influences in the ideal beauty looks of Persian women, like pin curled bobs, giant beehives, and wild ringlet curls. In the ‘80s, after the revolution of 1979 in which the monarchy was overthrown, the hijab became mandatory again…The 2000s beauty look, with its green hijab and green war paint, references the Iranian Green Movement in which protestors demanded the removal of human rights violator and conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from office. Women were a driving force in this green-donning protest, from wearing brighter nail polish and more makeup in public to wearing green veils and standing side-by-side their male counterparts in the streets. -- source link