Long Jacket anyone?

Subhan Allaah... I remember starting my first year of university... soon it was presentation day... ahhhhhh... I mean what does a practising muslimah wear to present in front of a university lecture hall?!?...

• Pants from Dynamite... too tight
• 3/4 Jacket from Chado... ugh why does it have to show the shape of my waist?!?
• Shirt under the jacket... man this just makes the jacket look tighter... no one will notice if I have a tank top on will they? After all its covered by my hijab

Seriously, the only article of clothing that I felt comfortable with on my body was the scarf wrapped on my head... o well, what can one do?

Later on, I decided thats it... this is nuff! I have many presentations thru out uni and this tight "suit" is simply not going to cut it... therefore I purchased nuff material and on my first trip back to the "mother land", I went and got this beautiful dark blue, long jacket sewd for a decent price... alhamdulillaah!

Ever since then it has truly been an investment mashaa Allaah... I pull out that jacket every presentation, get soooooooooo many compliments on it... 3 years later mashaa Allaah. And to me that jacket is priceless alhamdulillaah.

Everytime I have an article of modest clothing that looks good, I feel this huge accomplishment and also feel that the investment is so worth it! I'm sure many of us go "score!" when we find clothing that doesn't hug our butt or our waists or get stuck up there (u know what I'm talkin about)...

And now... finalement! Urban Muslim carries "long jackets" :D Mashaa Allaah! This is what I call exciting... so make ure investment while they last!