Paranja

The part that covered the face, known as the chachvan (Uzbek: chachvon; Russian: чачван) or chashmband (Tajik: چشم‌بند, чашмбанд, caşmʙand), was heavy in weight and made from horsehair.

The heavy black horsehair veils were "too bad and coarse for a seive", the women walking in loosely wrapped blue gowns with the empty sleeves pinned could have been "mistaken for clothes wandering about", and big leather boots covered their feet.

[10][11][12][13][14] Curzon noted that "Ladies of rank and good character never venture to show themselves in any public place or bazaar."

[22] In the 1920s, the government "brought gangs of militant young atheists to Central Asia who physically assaulted women, often tearing the veil from their faces in the streets of Tashkent, Samarkand, and other cities.

[24] Some Uzbeks violently opposed the anti-paranja, anti-child marriage and anti-polygamy campaign which was started by the Soviet Union.