{"id":161598,"date":"2019-06-02T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/catwalk-cover-up-how-the-west-is-falling-for-modest-fashion\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:56:44","slug":"catwalk-cover-up-how-the-west-is-falling-for-modest-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/catwalk-cover-up-how-the-west-is-falling-for-modest-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Catwalk cover-up: how the West is falling for modest fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"
Flicking through the rails at high street store Monki, teenager Hanaa Maqbool swiftly picks out two looks she is considering wearing for Eid; one is a floral jumpsuit with wide sleeves and even wider legs that she wants to match with a palm-print headscarf. The other is an oversize lemon print dress that she\u2019ll wear with cropped white jeans.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy sister is nine years older than me and she always says she never had the choices I do when she was growing up because covering up wasn\u2019t as easy then,\u201d she laughs. \u201cMum would always get her really nasty, bland Eid clothes \u2013 old-lady clothes \u2013 but the high street has cottoned on to fashionable Muslims. We\u2019re in now.\u201d<\/p>\n