Men report being more uncomfortable approaching women who wore hijabs or niqabs. Gurney praises the fact that the book's characters wear burqas, hijabs and salwar kameezes. The women wear wrappers and shirts and cover their heads with "hijabs" (veils). The Billboard featured two Muslim girls in hijabs waving Australian flags and celebrating Australia Day. In 2014, a campaign was begun to encourage Muslim women to wear poppy hijabs. Iran were briefly banned by FIFA from international competition in 2011 for wearing hijabs. Under existing laws, women wearing hijabs are already banned from entering the country's government offices. At the end of the book she recalls seeing Indonesian Australian women wearing hijabs. Wearing hijabs was negatively correlated with reports of sexual harassment. Under this law, hijabs were no longer allowed to be worn in French public schools. While Nike had already sold hijabs in France, Decathlon was met with much more scrutiny. In April 2016, she launched her own line of sports hijabs. From 2014 to 2019, she sold more than 10 million hijabs. Additionally, they state that hijabs have become a social requirement instead of an option.