Hijabsters

As my previous post about Muslim girls wearing tudung were being seen as fashionable in Malaysia, comes the subculture called "Hijabster". Because of Islam's dress code, Muslim girls were restricted with what they can wear. Hijabsters brings a touch of fashion onto what they can wear that goes along with the restricted dress codes.

 Hana Tajima on Elle World. (Alima, 2012)

But like hipsters, Hijabsters are always being make fun of.

Why is it that these "Hijabsters" (Yuna and Hana Tajima) can make a name for themselves in the Western country but not in Malaysia? We like to have foreign women on the billboards instead. Complying to one's religion seems is not hip, and since the restriction of clothing only applied on Muslim women, how does this affect them? Is it because of this that most Muslim girls to not wear tudung but be more fashionable in a Western sense instead?

• Alima (2012) Research and Planning - Production Ideas [Online Image] Available from http://alimedia.edublogs.org/2012/10/19/research-and-planning-production-ideas/ [Accessed 7 August 2013]