Clothing conventions function as devices of social and cultural powers which operate to reveal the cultural particularities that ‘discipline the body,’ and individuals may construct a comfortable and dynamic zone and affirm their identity in relation to their communities by confirming these conventions. Nevertheless, women deliberately choose to maneuver within their society’s standard code of dress in order to increase their mobility. Palestinian women revitalize the meaning of cultural dress and incorporate contemporary fashion into its design as an act of contesting the binary between mainstream fashion and traditional garb. Their performativity is a form of agency because, as wearers, designers, and advocators of the Palestinian thob, they gain authority over the discursive inventions of cultural and national symbols. As a result of this expression of authority, they reconfigure what has been historically connected with tradition and antiquity into contemporary and fashionable. The use of modern communication technologies and social media platforms to popularize this transformation brings the thob into the global mainstream. As a result, the thob gains a more malleable and plastic cultural significance which differs from what was previously perceived to be old fashion and traditional. This study applies gender theory and historical perspectives to the narratives of first and second-generation Palestinians in the United States to unearth generational, historical, and cultural conditions that inform and transform the ways women conceptualize the modes of dress. Apart from the narratives of over twenty women, this study also utilizes community and family albums, videos, and online commercials to trace the transformation in the meaning of the thob, as gendered garment, among Palestinian women in the United States between 1950s and 2000s. These materials and narratives reveal that Palestinian cultural clothing and other types of ornamentation serve as means for women to enlarge their social role in addition to generating new meanings as ‘expressive culture of the community’ for a displaced population.