Nike's new hijab is designed to make sport more comfortable for Muslim women and goes on sale in 2018.
The light fabric is tailoured in a way it has tiny holes for breathability and the length has also been designed to stop it coming untucked during activity. Nike said it had been developing the new sporting hijab for a year.
The light fabric is tailoured in a way it has tiny holes for breathability and the length has also been designed to stop it coming untucked during activity. Nike said it had been developing the new sporting hijab for a year.
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| Nike hijab modeled by Zahra |
Although there has been sporting hijabs from small sporting brands such as Capsters and ResportOn which have previously been seen as leading brands of sporting hijabs all these years, but Nike is the first major international company to embrace the sports needs of Muslim women.
Nike says it was a carefully planned decision to put their trademark 'swoosh' above the left ear to "highlight the hijab's pinnacle performance nature".
United Arab Emirates athlete Zahra Lari has modelled the Nike hijab and posted a photo of herself wearing Nike sportswear to mark International Women's Day. She is the first ever figure skater to compete internationally and hopes to represent the UAE in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Nike says it was a carefully planned decision to put their trademark 'swoosh' above the left ear to "highlight the hijab's pinnacle performance nature".
United Arab Emirates athlete Zahra Lari has modelled the Nike hijab and posted a photo of herself wearing Nike sportswear to mark International Women's Day. She is the first ever figure skater to compete internationally and hopes to represent the UAE in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Appreciation tweets on Nike hijab
.@Nike launches Pro Hijab collection, modelled by Middle Eastern athletes @amna_alhaddad and Zahra Lari https://t.co/EdJR4kfaUY pic.twitter.com/X4UEsdUMlj— The Media Eye (@MediaEyeTweets) March 8, 2017
"I'm covered.I'm Arab & doing a winter sport"— Amber Zulfiqar (@Cheese_Pakora) March 8, 2017
Zahra Lari - the ICE PRINCESS #BreakTheNorm & becomes a model of stamina#nikehijab #IWD2017 pic.twitter.com/CD6HqZBCgK
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