Humility and identity: first impressions of the hijab presence in London
Jardim, Marilia (2016) Humility and identity: first impressions of the hijab presence in London. In: CIMODE 2016: 3º Congresso Internacional de Moda e Design: proceedings. Escola de Engenharia Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal, pp. 996-1004. ISBN 9789728692933
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In global cities, where the flow of immigrations and migrations increases year after year, fashion is possibly the first place were the marks of hybridisation and miscegenation can be apprehended. In the given context, and resorting to the scope of Socio-semiotics, this paper purposes a first regard of the matter of "modest wear" in London and other European capitals, where the use of the hijab – the head veiling worn by some Muslim women – awakens mixed feelings that vary from relative acceptance to the banning, by law, of such dress codes. All those manners of "dealing" with the hijab, though, fail to consider it, simply and yet not evidently, as a manifestation of fashion and personal style, based not exclusively on religion, but on individual choice likewise. That will be the purpose of this work: an attempt to address the hijab through the lenses of feminine identity, rather than religious convention.
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