China Daily via Agencies, January 5, 2012
From Thursday, only female staff will be able to sell women's lingerie in Saudi Arabia, ending decades of awkwardness in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where women are expected to don black cloaks at all times out of the home.
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Saudi women shop at a lingerie store in the Red Sea port of Jeddah on Monday. A royal decree gives lingerie shop owners six months to get rid of their male employees and staff their stores with women only. [China Daily via Agencies]
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![In this Friday, June 17, 2011 file image made from video released by Change.org, a Saudi Arabian woman drives a car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Agencies]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_upudgjVI2UWlSVNqtoEumvnFBkK_u3uVDy11MlFD4iGGRGEQNbn-biBjx3HQBKqidJSls7ryJ1V0_3e5kR6K9cEs19kF_ab6sQPDBtw6-Nw9xaVznB3O50hhAud7fa50ceNVhg9WhFn7v8oL18qf_3Ou8GbdzX=s0-d "In this Friday, June 17, 2011 file image made from video released by Change.org, a Saudi Arabian woman drives a car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Agencies]")