•  
  •  
 

International Design Journal

International Design Journal

Abstract

The physically handicapping woman is considered an important category of people with special needs, who must have the opportunity to choose clothes that provide her with comfortable, psychological and aesthetic requirements. The research problem lies in the unsuitable of the traditional Abaya, available in the market for women with motor handicapping. The importance of the research shows that the Hijab is an Islamic matter for women to cover up and be modest, improve the psychological state of women with motor disabilities and their integration into society, contribute to increasing the interest of fashion designers and clothing factories in producing what suits special groups. The research objectives are to making suggested designs of the hijab (Abaya) for the disabled woman fulfills the functional and psychological purpose for her and make easy for her and her family to wear and take off the Abaya. The research hypotheses are the possibility of designing clothes that facilitate and support women with special needs in dealing with their clothes. There are statistically significant differences at the level of significance 0.05 between the suggested designs of the Abaya and the traditional designs used by women with motor disabilities in favor of the proposed designs. The research follows the descriptive analytical method in describing and enumerating the problems of women with motor handicapping and the experimental method in making proposed designs for most of the problems. A questionnaire consisting of 3 main axes and 9 sub-items was designed to evaluate the suggested designs and the traditional design of Abaya. The results were analyzed statistically and graphically. Through statistical treatments (t-test, variance, correlation, regression) it was possible to verify the validity of the research hypotheses and achieve the objectives of the research, and from what made a comparison between the suggested designs and the design of the traditional Abaya in the local market. The Hijab (the Abaya) is the basic traditional dress for modesty, which the woman wears when leaving the house over her clothes, and it has become an important and essential part of the elegance of women in Saudi Arabia with the diversity of its designs, colors, materials, and ways of wearing them. The physically handicapping woman is an important category of people with special needs, who must have the opportunity to choose clothes that provide comfort and psychological and aesthetic requirements, so it was necessary to provide her own clothing designs that suit her multiple needs and achieve the motives she seeks to achieve through her clothes such as confidence, self-actualization, modesty, adaptation to others and other important motives. Problem: 1- What are the problems that a handicapping woman and her family face in designing the traditional abaya? 2- What is the possibility of making suggested designs of hijab (abaya) for a woman who is sitting in a chair that will fulfill her functional and psychological purpose, and make it easier for her and her family to wear and take off the hijab. Significance: 1- The Hijab is an Islamic matter for women to cover up and be modest. 2- Improve the psychological state of women with motor handicapping and their integration into society. 3- Contributing to increasing the interest of fashion designers and clothing factories in producing what suits special groups. Objectives: 1- Studying the problems facing the disabled woman’s family in the process of wearing and removing the abaya. 2- Making suggested designs of the hijab (Abaya) for the handicapping woman fulfills the functional and psychological purpose for her and make easy for her and her family to wear and take off the Abaya. Methodology: 1- Descriptive analytical method in describing and enumerating the problems of women with motor handicapping. 2- Experimental method in making proposed designs for most of the problems Experimental Work: The Questionnaire: A questionnaire consisting of 3 main axes and 9 sub-items was designed to evaluate the suggested designs and the traditional design of Abaya. From the functional purpose, psychological purpose and design feasibility. Results: Through statistical treatments (T-test, variance, correlation, regression) it was possible to verify the validity of the research hypotheses and achieve the objectives of the research, and from what made a comparison between the suggested designs and the design of the traditional Abaya in the local market. By analyzing the overall evaluation of the three axes designed to display the extent of the success of the research study, according to Figure (2), we find that the second design recorded the highest evaluation score of the arbitrators (93.00%) as a total evaluation to achieve the three axes of the research objectives.

Share

COinS
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.