Lav-an-dar

Lavender by celeritas featuring Jeffrey Campbell shoes

In Singapore they pronounce the suburb Lavender, Lav-an-dar on the train, it amuses me alot.

I thought I'd keep up appearances and post my outfit today. I know I always wear boots but its so cold her in the Winter so I have to. I always wear my handknitted socks in them to keep extra toasty. 

Green collar hijabi

Green collar by celeritas

Here's an approximation of what I'm wearing today, although my shirt is more of a business shirt than this tunic style. I really challenged my style recently and bought three shirts in colours I don't normally wear for work - green, pink and maroon. I'm really enjoying wearing my more colourful hijabs and trying out new colour combos like green-navy-teal. When wearing bright colours to work I feel really comfortable when I wear a formal jacket or light coat on top.

Rayyan's Twenty First Outfit - Hijab

In this look Rayyan wears a pale blue and off-green almost beige striped shayla over an olive underscarf. I really like how the off-green sections match the beige shirt without being matchy matchy. Here are my hijab options:

Hijab World's Pale Green & Gold Striped Hijab for £9.99

Hijab World Green Shimmer Striped Shayla for £6.99

Hijab World's Blue Toned Stripe Shayla £9.99

Hijab World's Rectangular Rainbow Silk Blue Striped Shayla £19.99

"Kreuzberger girlies" - Streetsyle Four

Source: herr klamm - kreuzberger girlies 1

Another beautiful summery look from the kreuzberger girlies 1! This features another white long sleeve tee with a maroon short sleeve shirt over the rop and a lovely flowing white skirt. The scarf is also maroon white white polka dots, perfectly matching this tesettür look. I couldn't find a scarf that matched exactly and as before I've done a range of outfits for different interpretations of modesty. There are so many cool purple scarves that I couldn't help but use them like a border. I personally like the geometric and stripy patters best as they are so distinctly tesettür-hijab.

Funky Summer

I really like this look, very high fashion. I've chosen a similar coat and paired it with a flowy pink skirt to match the eşarp. Of course if you want to wear hijab properly you'll need to tuck your hair in but as I have said before many tesettür advertising images don't fulfil true hijab.

I've put a lot of accessories into this look so its so girly. Do you girls like to wearing floral accessories when you wear floral hijabs or not?

Shiny tesettür underscarves

This is such a beautiful silk headscarf, eşarp from Ugoza but the focus in this post is the pretty underscarf. Most Turkish hijab are silk so presumably the shiny underscarf is also silk, here are what I could find for sale on the internet:

Simply Islam Bone Hair Cap in Silk Saten for US$5.16 are available in a range of colors.

Hijab and satin underscarf for sale on eBay for £7.49, Insh'allah the sister will continue to sell these sets in her eBay store Hijab Elegance

There are also satin underscarves for sale by themselves in purple or green for £2.50.

Alternatively you could sew a piece of satin on to an underscarf you already own (you could turn it around if you wanted the un-satin piece to show), use a satin scarf as an underlayer to another scarf (although this could be slippery) or use an elastic satin headband.

Rayyan's Eighteenth Outfit

Same as Rayyan's Fourteenth Outfit, long green trouser over black trousers.

Shukr's done some new spring tops and this one is a similar color although different style:

Shukr's Lujane Blouse in Lemongrass for US$44.95

Rayyan's Fourteenth Outfit

Al-Farah's Pastel Cotton-Spandex Blouse in Pale Mint (left) and Light Lime (right) for $24.99

Again here's my favourite modest trousers that are almost a skirt

Shukr's Black Lengha Pants for USD $48.95

Rayyan's Fourteenth Outfit - Hijab

Here are some options:
This scarf is the best match Scarf World's Skinny Velvet Scarf with Red Roses for £15.99 but is only 5.1"/13cm so is not suitable on its own as hijab. I suggest you wear it over a black al-amira

Here's some other options which also need you to put on your black al-amira first

Scarf World's Sheer Neck Scarf (Black Floral) for £2.95

Something quite different here Scarf World's Crochet Rose Scarf (Black) for £5.99

Rayyan's Thirteenth Outfit - Hijab

I adore this hijab, it is incredibly stylish and soft. The shayla is pink and is covered in floral patterns and hearts, and is worn over an olive green underscarf. I can't find any similar so I've found some really nice paisley pashmina options:

Scarf World's Jacquard Pashmina (Petal Pink Paisley) for £11.99

Scarf World's Beaded Pashmina Shawl (Rose Floral Paisley) for £34.99
Yes it's expensive but it is true pashmina and is very pretty.

Scarf World, has a wonderful section that is rare in general accessory sites in that it has a specific range of Hijab Scarves! They have a huge selection and I applaud them for responding to the needs of the Muslim community and encourage you all to have a look at their great website and huge range of scarves.

I have included this scarf, also as although it is quite different from Rayyan's scarf, it will match Rayyan's Thirteenth outfit well and has the soft floaty quality of the scarf she is wearing above:

Al Hannah Kuwaiti Style Wrap Hijab hi1276 in Pink for USD$14.99

Another pink option:
Aminah Fashions' Chiffon hijab with floral embroidery and diamante Code: style 4H for £4.95