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Walking around Valiasr square you can see what some Iranian women dare to wear. I saw there one who had colourful manteaux with huge orange buttons and headscarf to match and a young girl who wore very thigh fitting black shiny t-shirt (long sleeved, of course), jeans, short skirt and psychedelic headscarf. What would have islamic fashion police to say, I do not know. You can see them sometimes checking women's dress and adjusting those headscarves that show too much hair.

If there is a police unit that watches over segregation on city buses I do not know. People usually observe the rules and men do ride in the front and women in the back but it is not matter of life and death. In the middle of the bus things get sometimes mixed (couples sitting next to each other) and I saw a woman riding in a front: when she was paying the driver for the ride he told her that her destination is one more station.