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the head scarf has long been seen as a cultural andreligious requirement. but as fashion takes centre stage,women around the world began exploring new ways ofusing the simple scarf to create their own distinctiveversions of head coverings. glam speaks to four women
from different cultural backgrounds on their stylishinterpretation of the headscarf.
the ashion icon o the 60s got her
style mojo right rom the start.
Jackie Kennedy, well-loved or
her elegant dressing and riendly
demeanour, had always acces-
sorised with the modest headscar pulled
back casually with a knot at the back. A ew
decades later, the new wave o celebrities in-cluding Nicole Ritchie, Halle Berry and Kelly
Osbourne embraced the movement o adorn-
ing the head with colourul scarves setting
a new trend which reached out to a global
audience.
For women who have been covering their
heads all their lives as part o a cultural or
religious requirement, the new interest in
headwear sparked o a stylish revolutionchanging traditional headwear styles in com-
munities around the world.
Indonesian events co-ordinator Febrariska
Armen cites her current style point o reer-
ence as popular Muslim bloggers and stylists
who regularly post videos o new ways to
wear the headscarves on the Internet.
There is a surge o Muslim style bloggers
who promote dressing in a modest way and
a big ocus is on the variety o head covering
designs to suit your wardrobe. One o my hot
avourite at the moment is Hana Tajima who
is based in London. She is extremely popular
in South East Asia as women in this region
are very open to new ways o head coverings,
Armen explains.
Head coverings are known as jilbabs in In-
donesia and young women are beginning to
look or bold patterns and colours in scarves
that are used to cover their heads. Many like
Febrariska, pick out styles rom online stylebloggers and adjust them to suit their own
preerences. Standing in ront o the mirror
or hours trying to learn and discover new
styles is a norm.
There are a ew accessories needed to
create the dierent styles, mainly an inner
covering o the head which are called anak
tudung or inner-ninjas as well as brooches
and pins. The inner coverings provide the ba-sic coverage o the hair and neck as required
by Islam so that we can experiment with fuid
styles with the outer scar.
Online business entrepreneur Jamiatun Ba-
harum who designs and sells head veils, says
a similar trend is taking place in Malaysia.
While the Ariani style, which is a simple tri-
angle wrap around the head, has been the sta-
ple look or decades in the country, there has
been a new way o looks in the last two years
because o the new interest in headwear.
What the bloggers and Muslim designers
have done is to inspire young teenagers and
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attract them to explore new ways in coveringtheir head. Some interesting modern takes
include the usage o hoodie tops to cover
while wearing an inner-ninja, Jamiatun
explained.
Known as the tudung in Malaysia, the
headscar that Jamiatun chose or the inter-
view is a batik-print scar, a silk abric which
originates rom the east coast o the country.
The batik is a silk abric with motis thatare brush painted usually with a nature
theme. It is a very popular and traditional
abric that is gaining revival in contemporary
ashion especially as a headscar.
Creating the perect headscar look which
can be worn all-day also requires a little help
in structure support especially i you have
short hair. Entrepreneur and womens suc-
cess coach Layla Saad explains that she usu-
ally wears a fower netting clip on her hair
beore putting on her headscar to give it a
voluminous look and to help the scar stay in
place.
O a mixed Arican and Omani background,Layla has gone through stages o experiment-
ing with dierent head covering styles rom
wraps to turbans beore she ound the right
look to complement her style.
I do constantly look out or new styles but
at the moment, Im happy with this pulled-
back cap style which allows me to wear ear-
rings and stay stylish. I have a very classic
style and tend to stick to plain colours andlight wool abrics.
The revival o interest in headscarves has
also brought the old Kenyan tradition o ki-
tambaa back to lie ater being labelled by
youngsters as conservative and outdated.
The kitambaa is an old cultural practise o
headscar by the Kenyan community to show
modesty and humility and is usually part o
a complete outt with matching accessories
that are chunky and dramatic.
The younger generation had stopped
wearing the kitambaa because it was consid-
ered traditional but in the recent years, a new
wave o young entrepreneurs began revivingthe practice by introducing vibrant colours
and motis in the abrics o the kitambaa
as compared to dull colours worn by the
older generation, Kenyan Caroline Kariuki
explained.
The kitambaa is worn everyday by the
older generations in Kenya but the young-
sters have adopted the practice or special
occasions like weddings, theme parties andevents.
You can now nd the kitambaa in almost
every colour and moti that you can imag-
ine. It is considered to be very ashionable to
wear it now in Kenya because o the revival.
Because o its basic wrap shape around the
head, you can choose either sot or hard ab-
rics to create the dierent shapes that you
want on the head. The basic shape is a simple
knot at the ront o the head but with stier
abrics, you can create really dramatic and
voluminous looks especially i you are wear-
ing the ull matching outt.
How To Get The
Look - Simple
Style Guide
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