High-tech fabrics keep Muslim women in the swim
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LOS ANGELES -- Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public.
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Life & style: Gallery: Ease your conscience with these ethical summer skirts.
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Muslims celebrate the holy month with interfaith , blogs, and fasts even during competition.
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Scientists are developing clothing embedded with sensors which they say will be able to monitor your health.
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Italian cashmere specialist designer Loro Piana has created a fabric inspired by the black and white wave photographs of Clifford Ross which it will make into suits that will sell for about 3,000 euros ($4,367) each.
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Despite tough odds, some Mideast women are gaining power.
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LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters Life!) - Hand-knitted jumpers, tie-dyed trousers or stiff woven shirts in a range of drab colours once sprang to mind at the mention of ethical clothing.
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Americans are spending more on tricking out the places where they swim. Here's a look at the new wave of accessories
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CAMBRIDGE,  Mass. -- Future explorers on the Moon and Mars could be  outfitted in lightweight, high-tech spacesuits that offer far more flexibility  than the bulky suits that have been used for spacewalks in the 1960s.
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Mention the words Islamic and fashion and most people think of big black burqas or shapeless chadors.
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US researchers have created a nano-fiber textile that harvests energy from movement, paving the way for clothing that could one day power an iPod or other wearable electronic devices, according to a study published Wednesday.
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As long as you don't go to the beach to get wet, and you don't mind sand in your electronics, this prototype swimwear could come in handy. In Sex Drive Daily.
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The case offered a counterpoint to a broader discussion concerning Muslim women wearing the full-face veil.
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Nanotechnology is reshaping the world of textiles.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Manal Fageeh never liked the abaya, the long black cloak she was forced to begin wearing at 13. She resented the fact that it was obligatory for women in Saudi Arabia, and the black absorbed heat in the often-scorching climate.
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Yeliz Bakir sees herself as the personification of Turkey's European future &#151; a Muslim woman of 25 who grew up in rural conservative surroundings but now wears trendy clothes and works in a posh neighborhood of Istanbul.
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At the new women-only beaches, veiled women can don swimsuits, tan, and swim while remaining pious in God's eyes.