ABSTRACT
They cover their heads with little cotton caps, they don colourful bodices for all to see and they always wear an apron over their loose-fitting skirts. But don’t bother asking these women how they can still wear such an outfit despite living in a globalising and highly urbanised society like the Netherlands, for they might not have an answer. As one of them said: ‘It’s something habitual, as it is to those Turkish and Moroccan women, and they’re not even in their own country. So why shouldn’t I do so in my country?’
