Muslim women are fashionable under their burkas: Countess of Wessex

The Countess of Wessex has spoken out in support of Muslim women who express their fashion sense while wearing traditional clothes like the burka.

U.K. - The Countess of Wessex has spoken out in support of Muslim women who express their fashion sense while wearing traditional clothes like the burka.



The countess told Harper's Bazaar magazine women from the Islamic world could be stylish and modest at the same time.



In an interview by the women's fashion magazine ahead of her 50th birthday on January 20, the countess said that under a burka there was probably a woman wearing "something really quite fashionable".



Her comments followed an event she hosted at Windsor Castle where she met representatives from the organisation Islamic Fashion Festival.



She said: "It's very evident that Muslim women can be fashionable while also retaining their modesty... And it's a great way of bringing people together, and saying, 'Look, this is what we're really like'.



"And what people forget is that underneath the burka and everything else, there is somebody who is probably wearing something really quite fashionable."