All the same, in 2000 she led a successful compaign for women to be allowed to wear colours rather than the all-black garb that had previously been decreed. And today, she backs her husband's calls to scrap the morality patrols, the squads of hardliners who harrass young women for wearing their compulsory headscarves too loosely. That may not go quite far enough for some of today's more fashionable young Persian women, many of whom see plastic surgery to get a slender "Julia Roberts" nose as the only really compulsory style item. But it is still better than Mr Ahmadinejad's conservative vision.