I heard mention of koshiba crepe in one of my Yahoo! groups. The gal said abaya made of koshiba crepe are cooler in the summer than ones made of cotton (if that was you, feel free to leave a comment taking the credit for the tip). I was really surprised by that. I had always thought a natural fiber would be cooler than a synthetic one.
So today I was wondering where I could buy an abaya made of koshiba crepe. I tried searching on Google—didn’t do any good. Well…it may have done good if I had viewed more pages, but after viewing the first page of results, I remembered my own custom search engine that I had made just for this circumstance. It’s a Google search engine that searches only the contents of the Islamic clothing sites. BINGO! One store selling koshiba crepe abaya/jilbab—at least the only one I’ve found to date. Leave it to Jenneh at Al-Mujalbaba to already be promoting this fabric. One of her passions is fabric, and her store is the only English-medium one I’ve found that sells the fabric that abaya are made of too. God willing, Jenneh’s fabric sales will leap after my friend, neighbor, stand-in mother, and fellow convert to Islam (all one person) launches her modest and Islamic clothing pattern business. I cannot wait to tell you all about that! As soon as she gets her newsletter sign-up form on her blog, I’ll tell you all about it.
I guess this is a good place to point out my other custom search engines. They are all listed in my right-hand side menu and below:
Christian Clothing Search
Islamic Clothing Search
Jewish Clothing Search
LDS Clothing Search
Sun Protective Clothing Search
Vintage Pattern Search
July 28th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Dara, I wanted you to know that I have two new modesty-related blogs and am not talking about modest dress so much anymore on the kristinsdottir blog (http://www.kristinsdottir.wordpress.com). The new ones are http://www.lightandgoodorder.wordpress.com (a headcovering journal) and Offbeat Modest Dress: http://www.offbeatmodestdress.wordpress.com.
Thanks, as always, for your great work!
July 30th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Oh right! Thanks Kristin. I’ve updated my blogroll now. I also read more of your blog posts. You have the neatest blog on modesty I’ve ever seen. I should subscribe so I don’t miss out
July 31st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
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