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I don't think its a muslim mentality for women to wear traditional clothing while men can wear whatever. I live here in the USA, and I wear jeans and whatnot, just like Zoya. On the whole, from my summers in India, I saw that be it Hindu/Muslim/Sikh, regardless of religion, culturally it was more acceptable for women to wear cultural clothes and it was not okay to wear jeans and stuff (atleast not in the city). Conservatism reigns in every religion and India is tilted to the conservative side.
Besides depending on geographic/country region, urban vs rural setting, it also depends on family. My family from my father's side is more conservative and their girls in India don't wear jeans, but my mom's family there does.
Asad is just conservative in his beliefs, which, like I said, every religion has a conservative side - which in almost all cases looks at women to be clothed in cultural/non "western" clothing etc.
The pants thing you mentioned, about it being rolled above the ankles - this is something I see alot of Indo/Pak/Bengali muslims do. There's a saying of the prophet to not let your robe hang down so that it drags on the floor - you know, like kings do with their capes and whatnot - because kings and lords did it from arrogance, to show off their wealth and how much cloth they could buy with the embroidery and gold stitching they could afford. Therefore, the prophets companions used to be careful by keeping their robes ankle length or a bit higher, so as to avoid that. I guess my desi brothers do that too, taking it to a slight extreme some times. My dad and uncles who live in India roll their pants up like that too.
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