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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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