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www.prayercoverings.com/pages/fabrics.php -my veil,which is white.


i have other images but unfortunately i cannot currently acess photobucket.*sigh*

my aplogies.i photos taken and transfered to my usb pen but,my pen went walkies...

Looks like something you'll really enjoy wearing, Poppy. smile Congratulations on getting it!

In other news, Shukr, my favorite website for buying skirts and scarves, has some new arrivals, including a thicker-fabric line for winter wear. Are these plain enough for you and/or your community, Poppy, or are they still too bright? I'm thinking that the black and navy-blue skirts might serve you well.

I am often grateful that I'm not bound to plainness, or to wearing one specific type of clothing. At the same time, I own very few articles of clothing -- almost all of them hats, scarves, or other accessories rather than actual clothing pieces -- that are not solid in color, and most of those are either dark, or white. Perhaps I'd do better at plainness than I think I would, if it were required of me. wink

Honestly, I would suggest getting your fringe cut in an attractive way, and then letting it grow out. Why? Well, if you let your fringe grow out for the rest of your life, you don't want to live for the rest of your life thinking of your face as being entirely un-flattered by your otherwise beautiful hair. Hair is a big part of the way we see ourselves. I know, because I cover every single strand of my hair for religious reasons -- yet I still feel it's important for me to cover my grey hairs with dye, to have it cut attractively and stylishly, and sometimes to have it straightened so it's not frizzy. Why? No one sees it but myself and my beloved, ever. If (God forbid!) my beloved should divorce me or die, I would be alone, and yet I would still care enough to make sure my hair was attractive. Not to attract a mate; they'd never see it. But simply because it's a part of me, and as such, I would feel slovenly, unkempt, and lazy if I didn't take good care of it. Hair, too, is a part of the God-created body that I have. I exercise and eat right to take care of my body, I brush and floss my teeth, I trim and file my nails to be tidy, all as a part of honoring that which God created for my use. Why wouldn't I also take care that my hair looks just as good, feels just as healthy, and is honored just as I honor my body through taking healthful action, beautifying action, and modesty-directed action?

By the same token, since your religious text says that your hair is a symbol of something you hold precious, why would you not want to polish that crown and make sure that others could see the dignity behind your covering?

I'd like to learn more about the rationale behind the philosophy (or requirement?) of plainness, where it comes from, and so on. There may be more leeway within it than you know. I say this because learning religious beliefs and laws is a lot like learning the laws of language. You learn to speak as a young child, but then when you're older, you begin to learn the letters' shapes and sounds, then how to put them together into words, then sentences, then stories, then abstract ideas. You learn spelling, grammar, sentence structure, prose, poetry. At some point, your teachers tell you, "You know all the rules now that you'll ever really need." But not every writer is a technical writer or a historical writer. Some writers are meant to write things that touch and inspire our emotions. Sometimes in doing this, we have to be willing to bend or break a linguistic rule in order to make our point come across more vividly, to leap from the page, bypass the mind, and zing straight for the heart. In writing or speaking, sometimes we make a conscious choice to abandon the hard-and-fast rules of language, and just toss out the words that best suit a situation. We spend half our lives learning the rules -- but there is a time when the rules don't suit the situation, and we have to know when, and how, to be lenient with them.

I feel that the laws of the Bible are binding upon Jews -- but that means both the Written Law and the Oral Law as well. The Written Law contains the absolute musts and must-nots, but the Oral Law has been codified to indicate, in part, where the leniencies lie, how and when to take them. So it's possible that the philosophy (requirement?) of plainness is an absolute, but it's also possible that there are leniencies permitted, and I'm wondering if you're being more strict with yourself than is absolutely required, simply because you're at the grammar-and-spelling stage of your faith rather than at the "use the occasional ain't" stage. This isn't an insult or argument against what you do and believe, not at all, God forbid! This is meant as an encouragement to learn more, and maybe to teach me/us here in this forum, and maybe together we can come up with a way of letting you express your inner nature while still observing the musts and must-nots of the faith to which you are so lovingly committed.

OMG my uncle tld me abut that website i was looking for it!!! SO COOL!

i heart http://www.shukronline.com/wd4601.html

are you muslim?,because thats odd,a muslim saying omg. stressed