Saudi women have to wear the abaya in public by law Some Saudi women have launched a protest against the abaya - a long loose-fitting robe used to cover their bodies in public - by saying that ...
It is worn with an accompanying headscarf or an abaya, a full-length robe ... and therefore much debated - for women to draw the "khimar" (scarf) to cover the "jayb" (bosom/upper chest), and ...