Chador
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A chādor, also variously spelled in English as chadah, chad(d)ar, chader, chud(d)ah, chadur, and naturalized as, is an outer garment or open cloak worn by many women in the Persian-influenced countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent Tajikistan, as well as in Shia communities in Iraq, Bahrain, and Qatif in Saudi Arabia in public spaces or outdoors.
Young women in Herat, Afghanistan, wearing patterned chadors, which are rare amongst younger women in Iran since the Iranian Revolution but remain common in Afghanistan and Tajikistan
Malek Jahan Khanom, regent of Qajar Iran in 1848
Military commanders of the Iranian armed forces, government officials, and their wives commemorating the abolition of the veil in 1936
"Statue of a Liberated Woman" representing a woman tearing off her chador, Baku, Azerbaijan
Kashf-e hijab
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On 8 January 1936, Reza Shah of Iran (Persia) issued a decree known as Kashf-e hijab banning all Islamic veils, an edict that was swiftly and forcefully implemented. The government also banned many types of male traditional clothing.
Reza Shah, his wife Tadj ol-Molouk, and their daughters Shams and Ashraf, 8 January 1936, famously participating in a public ceremony without hijab the first time.
The women of the Iranian women's movement largely consisted of educated elite women positive to unveiling. In this image of the Board of Governors of the women's organization Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah, Tehran. The image is dated to 1922–1932; before the Kashf-e hijab reform in 1936.
Unveiled middle-class women vote in the election of 1963. In the period of 1941–1979, veiling was a class marker. The modernisation reforms included both unveiling and women's suffrage.
1979 Iranian Women Day's protests against mandatory veiling. Unveiled women protesting against the introduction of mandatory veiling. While many women had worn the veil during the revolution, they had not expected mandatory veiling and did not support it.