It's not a Barbie doll

The veil may not be to your liking, but then who's stopping you from sewing twin sets and capri pants to expand Fulla's wardrobe, if you decide to get one for your daughter? Just please ditch the Britney look, if you know what's good for your child (osmosis is a whole different topic so let's not get into that for now).

Now, all we have to do is wait for some manufacturer to come up with dolls whose figure actually looks like that of the girls who play with them.

Mideast Barbie dolls don Islamic veil
Wed Jan 11, 1:02 PM ET

CAIRO (AFP) - Move over Barbie, veiled is beautiful. The physical ideal of Muslim girls increasingly includes the hijab, as evidenced by toy shops' best-selling doll "Fulla" and the string of showbiz stars opting to cover up.

The dark-eyed and olive-skinned Fulla has replaced her American rival's skimpy skirts with more modest "outdoor fashion" and Barbie's luxuriant blonde mane with an Islamic veil.

"Fulla sells better because it is closer to our Arab values: she never reveals a leg or an arm," says Tarek Mohammed, chief salesman at a Toys'R'Us branch in Mohandessin, one of Cairo's more upmarket neighbourhoods.

The Arab answer to Barbie has been selling like hot cakes for Eid Al-Adha, the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar, not least because it is cheaper than its American rival, although both are made in China.

Full story at Yahoo News