So…..what IS a brother to do when designing a shirt for sisters?
ASK THEM.
That’s one way to do it. That’s probably the best way to do it. Actually….that’s what we’re doing! MuslimTees.com, the first proactive instead of reactive Islamic Organization…ok may be not the first, but it has to be third or fourth. On a more serious note, if you’re a sister and haven’t taken our survey please take it here: http://muslimtees.com/popup_longsleeve.htm
The goal of this post is to share some thoughts regarding our plans for “Sister oriented” products and solicit any other advice.
For our first sister line, we’ve been hearing that they should be long sleeved, featured in many colors, and have a feminine fit to them. I think we can get the first two requests dead-on but I do admit that we’re still a bit lost about the feminine fit part.
Basically what one of the sisters who took the survey lamented about other shirts, ” it is either long enough but tight or it is not long enough and SUPER baggy… when i say i like loose.. i mean not so it looks like I’m wearing a bag haha” or like another confided in use when she wrote “shirt itself needs to be kind of long, to come below the hips, but we don’t want to wear a tent, so if you could make sure that it’s not a total bag.”
I never knew about the bag thing. Never ever in a million years. SubhanAllah, sisters have a this unique vernacular. That…..or they’re actually wearing bags.
We are still having a little difficulty in defining what feminine means. Basically, what we’re looking for in a long sleeved shirt are the cuffs (we don’t want them to puff), overall fit, modesty factor, and fashion factor.
That may seem vague, but i guess that’s because it is vague. Right now we’re constantly soliciting opinions from sisters and we’re bringing a sister on board as an consultant.
We’re doing what we can….but we still need your opinion! Here’s all the things you can do to help us out:
- Take the survey: http://muslimtees.com/popup_longsleeve.htm
- Send us links of long sleeved shirts you like with a small note of what you like
- contact us at any time to tell us what we’re doing right and what we’re doing wrong – we’re always learning
In the end, we won’t get it perfect but we’ll try to get it right. One thing we will try to promise is to make them affordable and as one sister put it “Don’t make them ugly =)”
Salaam.Z.
