"I'm here to get away — from the bombs in Baghdad, from the sound of generators," said Aya Alshemari, a 22-year-old college student who, despite the fact that she was wearing a modest T-shirt and jeans, was drawing the gazes of dozens of male beachgoers.
My partner particularly hated the stop at the gas station in Truro, where we'd get the stares: two shorthaired women in long shorts and modest T-shirts, confident in their bodies, bikes on the back of their car.
Her Web site, entirely self-financed, attracts 110,000 unique visitors a month and sells a modest number of books, blankets, T shirts and book bags.
They mingle uncomfortably with sensitive boys in Modest Mouse T-shirts, like two tribes circling the carcass of festival fun.
Wearing the industry-standard tech billionaire attire of jeans and a modest dark t-shirt, Zuckerberg justified the recent $19bn acquisition by saying it complemented Facebook because its founder, Jan Koum, shares Facebook vision of connecting billions of people.
