Hijabers: Fashion Trend for Moslem Women in Indonesia

Abstract

Trend of wearing hijab is booming in Indonesia nowadays.Many Muslimah women attract to change their conventional way of dressing into the up-to-date one.They can't deny that this trend also motivate them to change their style.Even, some of them still keep the old fashion style but the other eager to follow the trend.This writing is focussed to reveal the trend of Hijabers in Indonesia by showing one community named Hijabers Community (HC) based in Jakarta.The way this community do the positive action really give influences for the women.The writer will show this trend as a part of cultural studies which is fit with the era, globalization and modernity.The young Muslimah prefer wear hijab with modern and new style, follow the trend but still keep wearing hijab as the syariah ask to do.The style that they follow still lead them to be good Muslimah without leaving the Koran and Hadist.Theory of identity and fashion will be used to analize this article.The method of close reading and library research is applied in this research.Finally, the writer found that Hijabers Community has constructed values according to their own veil.There is a shift in the value of the veil itself.Hijab first and now has a different meaning.If the first to wear the Hijab is a symbol of female obedience to the teachings of their religion, while wearing Hijab has now become a way of life of its own.Muslim fashion is growing rapidly and emerging models are nice, stylish, and fashionable.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 10 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.