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al-firaushah » Abayas Turning Trendy

Abayas Turning Trendy

June 1, 2006 on 4:56 am | In Correcting Misperceptions about Islam/Muslims, Benefits of an Islamic Lifestyle, Store Announcements |

There’s an article from the Associated Press about how abayas in the Gulf states are becoming trendy. (Actually, I suspect that abayas have long been trendy, just that no Western reporter has noticed until now. Anyhoo…) One interesting passage, near the end of the article:

But advocates of fancier versions are convinced they can combine fashion and modesty.

…

Never mind that his elegant consort, sporting an abaya decorated with golden metal and matching head cover, could cause more heads to turn than a less attractive woman in a short skirt.

“Abayas are now both decent and fashionable. Everyone follows the fashion nowadays,” Mohammad said.

This is what Milady and I believed in when we started firaushah, that Muslimahs can wear modest clothing that is beautiful and fashionable.

Strike back at these ignorant non-Muslims who say you are oppressed! Wear beautiful clothing - clothing that’s better looking than theirs - and ask if “oppressed” women wear as fashionable of clothing as your own.

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  1. If i am in the snow i would put on my boots and wrapped up myself warm and if i am in the desert it will be such a relief to protect myself with scarf and abbaya. But we are not living in the camel era. Instead everyone is enjoying so much facilities on their mobile phones and other mindblowing new technologies..
    Nowadays to give anything some importance you must have it become a bit fashionable as if to make people remember about it’s importance. I don’t have the need to rediscover my abaya and particularly if I have prayed five times a day. I have more important issues on my mind than my trendy abaya with silver trimmings in this mortal world. Why this abaya is not getting any modest at all nowadays? Am I being encouraged to wear my abaya in this modern world? Or is it that it is now a new niche for some people to make some money. I have started wearing it since puberty and I have never given it a few more thoughts than today. Why do i have to change today? i feel all this is so sinful. That trendy abaya is it luxurious modesty in disguise ? Am i missing something? I thought it was all to do with faith in God but now we have to deal with the consequences of being fashion slaves because nobody is being spared and not even the modest attire. The fabulously rich don’t know how to get rid of their ever lasting frustrations under their abaya. With or without abaya they have always wanted to distinguish themselves from the others otherwise they wont be satisfied about their superiority complex. We have to cater to their needs and that is why i am sad about the loss of the neutrality of the abbaya.. There is no place for those who can’t afford the latest tendy abbaya. The latter is speading like wild fire disease.. If it had not been for the Quran it’s hemline would have been trimmed and redefined with more sexy contours. How will this new fashion wave keep the abbaya decent and modest

    Comment by D. rafiq — June 25, 2006 #

  2. A salaamu aleikum,

    I used to think, “when in Rome”…
    But deep in my heart is a voice calling me to be careful.

    Given the choice between modesty and fashion, i choose modesty.

    Given the chance to wear clothing that is both modest and fashionable, my understanding is that Islam calls upon muslimahs to observe a limit.

    Should “fashionable” be “eye catching”?
    Does fashionable cause onlookers (male and female)to stop, stare, whisper, point, wonder…
    Fashionable sometimes causes other muslimahs to gaze with envy.

    If fashionable becomes “eye catching” can it still be considered modest?

    How many of us see ourselves as other do?

    Allah created such beautiful colours for us to admire, but–

    some seem more appropriate for the flowers in a garden and the lovers in their bedroom,

    than they do draped about the bodies of women who profess to submit to Allah.

    Every thing has its time and place.

    May Allah guide us towards what is righteous, pleasing to him.

    :-)

    May Allah guide us towards his

    Comment by KT — May 2, 2007 #

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