Work that dress!

Black Dress & Brown by celeritas

I love this top, mine is even more modest as it doesn't have bust shaping but if you 'draw your veil over your chest' it shouldn't matter. I really feel very muhajabat wearing this outfit; the length is great with trousers. Its very appropriate for work but with a skirt could be jilbab equivalent for visiting a masjid. I also love wearing leather boots as you can wipe over them for wudhu as they are khuffayn.

Creme Anglaise

Anokhi anglaise by celeritas

Here's a set with an Anokhi scarf I would love to have. Loose blue jeans would pick up the blue flowers in the scarf and the dress matches the background colour of the scarf. The sandals also feature fabric like the scarf however I wouldn't wear shoes that high, I would be more likely to wear flats with this look.

Chain stores - Spring Just Jeans Blue

It's fantastic that maxi dresses are in fashion this New Zealand Spring season, I walked down the main shopping street here and thought - I want that, and that and that! So I've done this look all on Just Jeans clothing and accessories. I'm not sure if the scarf would be wide enough for a hijab but you could wear a navy al-amira with the scarf round the neck as shown. I'm not the biggest fan of all these items, the maxi dress is my key piece but I wanted to show that you can indeed buy a whole outfit of hijab from one shop. When I grew up in a small town there were only about four shops that sold 'cool' clothes and one was Just Jeans so its great to know that even sisters in small towns can get hijab clothes.

PVC Tesettür

This is from Yaren

This look is from Tugba's Summer 2007 collection

Now I just don't know about these looks, I am perfectly happy with leather/PVC boots, bags and gloves, but wearing a statement leather/PVC coat I'm just not sure.


In my teens I had a PVC coat in feeble attempt to do the 'Trinity' look but it ripped at the seams and got too small so I stopped wearing it and now I wouldn't wear it with hijab. I don't know if this sort of look has the same 'ahem' connotations in the Middle East. The other thing that bothers me about these looks is that they are tight and well, leather did use to be skin so I would not wear it like this even if I did like it in a garment.

As usual the black, red white esarp are great - I'd do this look instead like this:

Rayyan's Thirteenth Outfit - Abaya Substitute

Here's a very pretty dress Arrayan Dress in Sand for USD $79.95 Althought it's not cheap you get two items for the prices of one, you can wear the emboridered dress by itself or wear the open dress over other items in your wardrobe. You could even buy some of the other Arrayan Dresses which come in Sea Blue over Black and Grape over White and mix and match the layers.