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Nike becomes first major brand to launch hijab for women
Nike's new hijab is designed to make sport more comfortable for Muslim women and goes on sale in 2018.
The light fabric has tiny holes for breathability and the length has also been designed to stop it coming untucked during activity.
Nike said it had been developing the new sporting hijab for a year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...ijab-for-women
https://news.nike.com/news/nike-pro-hijab
Chindōgu I believe is the correct term for this.
A whole year in development??
With the exception of the extra length feature, headgear like this has been on the market for years as a bottom layer under helmets.
Can't see the design being much different. A whole year?? Marketing hoo-hah.
A bottom layer under a helmet is staying in place because there is a helmet on top. I could well imagine making a lot of designs and testing them with athletes to take some time...
I just find the swoosh too discrete. They should have a full print "JUST DO IT" on them...
I remember the first time I saw a sportswoman in a hijab; it kind of shocked me. But then my brain kicked into gear and I was really pleased - I am pretty sure seeing openly Muslim girls and women having a great time doing sports is a massive „f*** you“ to the fundamentalist idiots who are ruining it for all the „normal“ Muslims. And it also counterbalances some of the stereotypes around wearing a hijab in general.
As long as I can see someone‘s face and especially eyes, I have no issue with what they choose to do with the rest of their body. But people hiding their face or eyes bothers me, be it not taking off sunglasses to talk to me (at least initially) or covering the face for religious reasons.
Better don't start fencing then...
This is far too reasonable a post to be in a hijab-related thread on EF.
Mods, please delete. we have a tone to keep low.
imho a woman should be able to wear whatever they want and not pander to fundies by wearing a sports hijab.
What if the woman wants to wear a sports hijab? Her choice .
I know, I know... it's a bit ambiguous...
Some "progressive" Westerners or even Easterners like to believe women are forced to cover their hair. Thy find it impossible to believe a Muslim woman can actually choose what they wear.
And unprogressive ones as well. People simply fail to understand it‘s a matter of personal choice for many Muslim women.
For the vast majority there is no choice.
It always makes me chuckle how culturally fluid "choice" is. When it's conservative Jewish or Christian women making the "choice" to do something or other, well, they're coerced, aren't they? Blah blah patriarchy, blah blah.
When it's conservative Muslim women making the "choice" to do something or other, on the other hand, well, they're asserting their autonomy as women, obvs, durr...
Calvin lives, except when he doesn't!
You misunderstand me - fundies typicall ‘t want women doing sports at all and definitely not Muslim women.
Treverus - touché.
Isn't patriarchy the driving force behind most religions if you strip them back to their basics? At least the mainstream ones which get everyone frothing at the mouth anyway.
It's more of a cultural artefact than a driving force. It's just funny that some people seem keen to minimise it with regard to Islam while focusing on it with the other two.
I think it's both, to be honest. Religion has always been a male-dominated club which has got it in for women.
People jumping up and down with outrage at whether a woman can wear a crucifix at the Tesco cash desk or a hijab in the building society is all, frankly, laughable bollocks.
If you want to wear it, wear it. If not - shut up and move along.
If you are not comfortable in your zumba class unless you can cover your head, buy a Nike headgear. It's probably better than a crucifix, purely from the fact you are less likely to gash your eye out with it.
Just for the record: in a lot if not most sports is it not your choice what to wear. One of the athletes marketing the hijab is a professional boxer in Germany (obviously with a immigration background, in her case from Turkey). I believe it has an impact if I as a boxer can see the whole head of my opponent or just some round black ball...
Trev...do you think they're releasing something that covers everything apart from the eyes? Is that what you think the hijab is?
What they are releasing is a glorified version of the base layers that skiers wear on their heads. Its nothing new, its just clever marketing from Nike.
If you think it gives you a disadvantage that you cant see their hair...you could always wear one too?
why does an uninterrupted view of a female boxers hair affect the sport?