Top: Setting the example Reza Shah's wife Queen Tadj ol-Molouk, and their daughters Princess Shams and Princess Ashraf, appear in western clothes on 8 January 1936.

Bottom: Iranian women in Hijab prior to Reza Shah's decree.

On 8 January 1936, Reza Shah of Iran (Persia) issued a decree known as Kashf-e hijab (banning all Islamic veils (including headscarf and chador),