It might be not a quite new design, as 'jilbab sosor' has been popular amongst the urban Muslimahs in Indonesia about a few months ago.



The design firstly introduced by a well-known Muslimah fashion designer, Dian Pelangi.

It's an instant or slip-on hijab, so you just have to slip on the hijab directly to your head, then wrap or twist the excessive flowing part of it in so many ways. No pins needed. Perhaps a beautiful brooch or some velvet pins can be added, if you want to spice it up.. :)

This "jilbab" comes in so many various colours in Dian's signature design, tie-dye motifs.

The best part is you don't have to wear a ninja headdress to get many looks of hjab style. Here are some appearances of 'jilbab sosor':

The plain part acts as the inner while the "colourful" part can be wrapped up according to your desire.

You can see how Dian Pelangi styled up the 'jilbab sosor' in her site, here, here, and here.

Another new collection of hijabs by Dian Pelangi that I noticed quite popular too is 'jilbab rajut' (= knitted shawl) that made in colour gradations.

Below is my favorite colour gradation of Dian Pelangi's knitted headscarf/shawl, grades from navy blue to yellow-ish green:

 Check out one look on how Dian Pelangi wear this kind of headscarf here.

(Photos credit: Oy Butik and Mazaya)

Do you own Dian Pelangi's 'jilbab sosor' or 'jilbab rajut'? What is your thought about these kind of headscarves?

Do share a link / links in the comment's section below if you know any tutorials of the possibilities on how we can style up these scarves.. :)

Stay fabulous!

(Editor's note: Indonesian people usually call hijab/headscarf/tudung/kerudung as 'jilbab')

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Congratulations to Annisa Marwati for winning the Modest Sea Giveaway.

Your prize, Emma swimsuit, will be making its way to you shortly! :)

 

And... for all of you, Modest Sea gives a special 20 % discount to buy Modest Sea quality swimsuits!

Please note that this discount will be valid just for two weeks.

In order to enjoy this benefit, please follow the instruction below:

After choosing the swimwear in ModestSea.com, and adding it to your "bag", you should proceed to checkout. In this stage, users that are not connected yet should open a user. It is required to have a user in order to make a purchase. After logging in and choosing a shipping and payment methods, you will get the screen like this:

There is a window in which you should type the code number 507090.
After entering it and pressing the update subtotal key, you will be able to see the discount grunted.

Enjoy! :)

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Today's Readers' Style comes from Nefike Keke.

This is a second time she shared her style with FashioningFaith Blog's readers. At her first look here, she was trying to match colour purple and red fashionably. 

And, as for her second appearance, Nefike worked on her Boots, Blazer, and Sunglasses to Layered Maxi Dress..

Check out her style:

Boots, blazer, and sunglasses.

Layered maxi dress.

 What did you think of Nefike's style?

Do you want to share your style too, just like Nefike did? Click here to find out how and.. let's be an inspiration for other Muslimahs! :)

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Haute Hijab New Spring 2012 Collection:

They've got hijabs in four latest fashion trends; Polka Dot, Paisley, Tangerine, and Floral! You can check Haute Hijab's collection here.



Amirah Fashions has added 5 fresh-designed jilbabs to their website. The jilbabs are: Amelia rose jilbab, Fleur grey jilbab, Guinevere cherry jilbab, Guinevere Blackberry jilbab, and Midnight garden jilbab.

Other news from Amirah Fashions' website, the Layla jilbabs will be restocked over the next couple of weeks, and the Chelsea jilbab is coming back in many colour ways soon.


New from Aab is their 'chic and casual Spring Looks' Hijab collection. Here is my favorite:


Al Hambra Bloom


Shukr's new Spring 2012 collection is out now on their website.

Great deals are running at House of Sakti Jewelry's site for their 'Arm Party" bracelets series:

Simply enter the code above at the checkout when you buy from their site.


Go check out those sites for fabulous things that you might need to compliment your Spring looks.. ;)

And don't forget, tomorrow I will announce the winner of my 'Modest Swimwear GIVEAWAY' and a surprise treat for everyone! :)

Keep an eye out.

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Tips and Tricks

One styling key that becomes so trendy nowadays amongst young urban Muslimahs who wear hijab in Indonesia is the using of ninja headdress as an inner hijab.

By using a ninja headdress, your hair, neck, upper bosom, and part-of-shoulder area would be get covered (that's why it's so-called "ninja" ^_^ according to how it looks), allowing you to have a free choice on how you would wrap your headscarf.

If you have no idea yet about what kind of headdress that is, you can read the details about it here, on my previous post.

But the big problem that many of these Muslimahs face while they are using ninja headdress is it becomes loose easily around the face after had been worn many times or after had been washed.

I notice that many of these Muslimahs have no idea to fix this out. Some of them will just leave their ninja headdress alone in their wardrobe, unwearable.. Others, keep wearing it by the help of pins. They pull off the fabrics to the both side of face, left and right, and then pin the excessive fabrics to both side; Or, pull the fabrics down and pin the excessive fabrics below the chin.

This is not practical and not neat to be seen :)

I found the solution to fix this up from the shop where I bought mine, Claroshop. As one of the online shop which sell this kind of headdress, Claroshop had wrote a tips on how to fix this problem about several months ago. I have tried it myself and it worked really well for me.

So, for you who thinks that your ninja headdress can not be worn because it's too tight or too loose, here is the tips from Claroshop:

Trick and tips.
Spandex is one of material that we using for head cover. If your head cover become elastic when after imposed many times, you don’t have to be sad because you think it can't be used again.

Don’t worry, we will give you solution for your head cover:

• If you feel too tight to wearing HC (= ninja headcover), you can open a thread at point of left and right on your cheek.

• And, if it's too loose, you don’t have to need a pin to make tight, just sewing the tip of the left and right cheek on your head cover (sew about 1-2 cm depend how loose or tight you want).

The tips is very easy to do.. You can sew it manually or by sewing machine as well.

Hope the tips can help you out! :)

Happy weekend.

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It's about time now.. to change my blog's url become one which is memorable and edgy... (is it? hehehhe ^_^)

FashioningFaith Blog has changed its url (= site's address), from fashioningfaith.blogspot.com to fashfaith.com.

The new one is shorter and, I hope, will be easier to remember.

Anyway, you still can find my style blog through the "old" link / url. No worries, it will redirect you to the blog's new url. So, simply keep the "old" one with no need to change anything.

Please.. let me know (via the comment section below) if you find any troubles or errors during your "surfing" on this blog. I would really appreciate that :)

Thank you so much in advance for your support and kind attention :)

Salaam,
Rania

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I found these "old" photos somewhere in my files. I remember that these are photos I took last year during my visit to Phillip's Gallery. I also took a picture of myself there showcasing a "rules-breaking fashion" for Hijabi Fashion Week Nov 2011.

This gallery highlights the traditional fabrics and crafts, such as batik (there's also embossed batik: produced on cotton fabric with a unique technique, which motifs were embossed and matched with the fabric's color), lurik, sarongs, silver jewelries, handbags, and so forth.

Embossed batik (left); Hand-drawn batik (right)

Unfortunately I didn't take a closer look of those embossed batiks to show you more details about them.

So here are some closer looks, giving more detail's at these embossed batiks, from Phillip's site and Nilanda's blog:

Embossed batiks

My mom, who came along with me to the gallery, loved these embossed batiks, so she bought one in colour soft fuchsia.. beautiful!

We spent some times at this gallery, took a look around while also enjoying the scenery of "sawah" (rice fields) and hills at the background, which surrounds the gallery.

Here are some pictures I took myself on things in the gallery:

Dress made from the embossed-batik fabrics (left)

Okay then.. Enjoy your weekend and see you on the next post! :)

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