About Hijab House
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Hijab House was created in 2010 to provide stylish, modest clothing for young Muslim women. Before the label’s inception, Muslim women were limited to traditional retail clothing often imported in bulk which often targeted older women.
Muslim women are religiously advised to wear the hijab (head scarf), but also loose fitting, non-sheer, long clothing. Hijab House designs have encouraged Muslim women around the world to follow this religious duty while still remaining fashionable.
This is Hijab House’s inaugural appearance at Fashfest. The company’s head designer, Sophie Loader, grew up in Canberra and studied at the Canberra Institute of Technology.
The ideal Hijab House customer is a female between 15 and 25 years who has an eye for fashion and her own style. She is ambitious, social and active and dedicates time and effort into her appearance.
When Hijab House first opened its doors, it was a breath of fresh air to the Muslim, female, hijab-donning community. The company has been a part of a movement that has inspired women to be confident in who they are and what they can achieve.
Modest clothing is one of the fastest growing fashion trends internationally. Designing for Hijab House is challenging and rewarding as the usual trends must be changed to suit religious dress requirements. This requires a high level of sensitivity as well as a strong edge and sense of style. Hijab House draws inspiration fashion trends and brands all over the world. Although based in Sydney, Hijab House retails to a global market.
Hijab House is part of the ‘Faith, Fashion, Fusion’ exhibition originally held at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. The exhibition is now in Victoria and is scheduled to travel to Perth later in the year.
One of the many questions that I have been asked is why does Islam make hijab mandatory for women? Islam has introduced hijab as part of the decency and modesty in interaction between members of the opposite sex. Verse 59 of chapter 33 quoted previously gives a very good reason; it says,
“This is more appropriate so that they may be known [as Muslim women] and thus not be harassed [or molested].”
Men, whether they confess it or not, are slaves of lust and desire.
• Hijab protects women from such men; it symbolizes that she has been sanctified to one man only and is off-limit to all others.
• Hijab contributes to the stability and preservation of marriage and family by eliminating the chances of extramarital affairs.
• Finally, it compels men to focus on the real personality of the woman and de-emphasizes her physical beauty. It puts the woman in control of strangers’ reaction to her.
Commenting on the attire of women in North Africa and South East Asia, Germaine Greer, one of the pioneers of the women’s liberation movement, wrote:
“Women who wear cortes or huipiles or saris or jellabas or salwar kameez or any other ample garments can swell and diminish inside them without embarrassment or discomfort. Women with shawls and veils can breastfeed anywhere without calling attention to themselves, while baby is protected from dust and flies. In most non-Western societies, the dress and ornaments of women celebrate the mothering function. Ours deny it.”1
Note that she also specifically mentions the salwar, kameez and jellabas that are used by Muslim women in the East.
Feminists and the Western media often portray the hijab as a symbol of oppression and slavery of women. This sexist angle of viewing the hijab reflects the influence of Western feminists who are subconsciously reacting to the Judea-Christian concept of veil –– “the symbol of woman’s subjection to her husband”.2
To look at one’s own religious or cultural history and then to pass a judgment against another religion is, on the milder side, an intellectual miscalculation, and, on the harsher side, outright cultural imperialism! My father made an interesting observation in an article that when the Europeans penetrated the interior of Africa a century ago, they found some tribes who went about naked. They forced the tribes to wear clothes as mark of civilization. “Now those advocates of ‘civilization’ are themselves discarding their clothes. One often wonders if the ‘primitive tribes’ of the last century were not more civilized than the rest of the world. After all, it is rest of the world which is now imitating the ways of the so-called primitive society.” 3
I am surprised at the society which shows tolerance towards those who would like to go around topless but finds it difficult to tolerate a lady who by her own choice wants to observe hijab! According to Naheed Mustafa, a Canadian Muslim, “In the Western world, the hijab has come to symbolize either forced silence or radical, unconscionable militancy. Actually, it’s neither. It is simply a woman’s assertion that judgment of her physical person is to play no role whatsoever in social interaction. Wearing the hijab has given me the freedom from constant attention to my physical self. Because my appearance is not subjected to scrutiny, my beauty, or perhaps lack of it, has been removed from the realm of what can legitimately be discussed.”4
Hijab is not a symbol of oppression. Women are oppressed because of socio-economic reasons even in countries where women have never heard about hijab. On the contrary, the practice of displaying pictures of almost naked women in the commercials, billboards, and in the entertainment industry in the west is a true symbol of oppression.
Neither does the hijab prevent a woman from acquiring knowledge or from contributing to the betterment of human society. Historically women have also greatly contributed to Islam. Lady Khadijah, the first wife of the Prophet, played a significant role in the early history of Islam. A successful businesswoman in her own right, she was the first person to accept the message of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.). Her acceptance and faith were a great source of emotional support for the Prophet. She stood by her husband in the difficult days of early Islam, and spent her wealth for the promotion of the new religion.
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