[Maymayfor]

Salams As a women, Im going to tell you that it's about confidence and feeling beautiful. All women wheter single or not want to look and feel beautiful/attractive/femine.
From a young age mothers dress there daughters in pretty dresses, shoes etc. In stories we see princess in pretty dresses etc. I don't think it's just a western thing. If you look throught history in ever nation from africa to america women are seen as sexual creatures there purpose to look beautiful mostly for the males in society. Lets first look at pre islamic arab women how they were treated and were used for dancing etc. Then move over to africa again many tribes women dance for the men just about nude with fine adornments and such like. Then you have geisha's in japan same here dressed to please men and be servant to men. Then you have todays women still doing this. Even in arab culture and asian culture today you still have women dressed in fine clothing dancing and singing. Women look at other women and we compete against each other scrutinising our selves. Comparing every thing from makeup to hair, clothes, and even cleavage size. We look at other women with envive even so it's a constant battle as in who looks the sexiest,prettiest, most beautiful. We are in theory competing against each other ad well as for male attention be it if we are single or not. Constantly comparing ourselves sometimes even wishing to be as pretty as our competitors. It's out nature. This is why Allah sent hijab to protect us from unwanted gazes of men, to be known as muslimahs to show us that we do not need to compete with other women, we don not need fancy clothes, jewellery, make up and perfume to be beautiful because we are already beautiful like a pearl and we should save our beauty for our husbands. Al humDuAllah I wear it and for the first time in my life I feel free from all the attachment to be the prettiest, free from unwanted attention and I finally feel modestly beautiful and I feel like a lady a true lady not just some flashy sexual creature. I won't swap my Hijaab for a mini skirt ever. I want to be treated with respect not leered and perved at.