"They strolled past carpet shops, handicraft shops, pastry shops, flower shops, and shops that sold suits for men and dresses for women, and, in them, behind lace curtains, Mariam saw young girls sewing buttons and ironing collars."
Here, Hosseini is using imagery to describe how different one part of Afghanistan can be from another part. While Mariam and Rasheed is visiting another area, Mariam experiences a kind of cultural shock because of how different it is from other traditional areas she has lived in her whole life. Here, men and women don't have to wear turbans and burqas, they can wear suits and dresses. Not only that, but women can work as well. This goes to show that the more traditional parts of Afghanistan are more restricted in terms of rights from more modern parts of Afghanistan.
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