Tapadas 16th-through 19th-century

Please explain why the Tapadas unique custom of using a veil, (manto and saya)was a garment of empowerment for Limenian women because it was a sign of rebellion, anonymity, and privacy during the viceroyalty of Peru.
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At the beginning of the Viceroyalty of Peru, in the middle of the 16th century, a unique custom was born in America; tapadas Limeña, the covered limenian women, who wore distinguish long wide skirts during the 1560s with long wide skirts very well-tied at the waist, and a veil tied to the waist that was raised, covering the entire back, head, and face, leaving only one eye exposed. The covered woman from Lima not only covered herself of her own free will, despite the sermons of the priests or the fury of jealous husbands and the prohibitions of several viceroys; the veil to cover themselves up; it was an autonomous decision for women of the finest flirtation. According to Miseres (2017), “The tapadas are cultural signs that allow us to study the complex ways in which women negotiate their participation in the confirmation and maintenance of the guiding principles of society [the army, the ruling sector, public spaces]” (p.69). By 1560, historians speculate that there was already a large enough female population to enforce it. Abercrombie explains on page 131 that the Spanish arrived mainly from the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, the Andalusia region, which was historically the most populated with Muslim influence. It is essential to remember that Spain was under the rule of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Emirate of Granada for seven centuries until 1492.

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