from previous-

--he  observed  all  the  jewelers  shops  were  full of  women, men  customers  were  sparse, women  clad  in burqas, women wrapped  in  veils, women covered  in  traditional  broad   shawls, modern  women, old  fashioned  women, young  women, old  women, well educated  and  well off  women, middle  class  conservative  women,  shops  were  full of  women customers  , he  passed   moving  further  and  further  into  the  jewelers  market  but  there  was  not  a  single  shop  he could  find  was  empty  of  women and  buyers