Cresent Moon, I loved.  I would buy this:

I'm not much in love with the clothes except those at Crescent Moon.  They are shapeless or have too much going on to be functionally stylish.  I cannot get away with wearing clothes like that!  For me, the long wrap top at CM is a classic.  Wraps flatter everyone, this is both a tunic and a light jacket.  It would also look good with either of those work shirts below, left unwapped as an open jacket or wrapped with the collar of the shirt starched high.  For someone tall, that wrap jacket is perfect. 

I'm just not too much into the oriental look.  Other sites has very beautiful products in fantastic fabrics.  There wqas one site that had nearly everything made out of sari silk!  Beautiful.  Some were very pretty casual dressy shirts and skirts.

This Fashion Jihad chick is going to go straight to Old Navy to find complements to these.  But again I am focusing on work clothes.   I'm in Nakia, I'm in!  

The Fashion Jihad will have several fronts, and I'm hoping to get a few more sites with different styles- no uniforms for the Fashion Jihad, honey! OK, now you have to go take your fine self out and recruit! Remind them that Jihad is an obligation upon the believers, and not only will they achieve high status in Jannah, insha'Allah, but they will look some kind of good walking down the street as a Fashion Mujahid. -Dang, now I want that as my name on this site. Laury, PLEASE???

As I read the first part of your blog, two things come to my mind. Perhaps some may find them non sequiturs or digressions, but I will share my two thoughts.

One is something which Abraham Heschel wrote in his book “The Prophets”, a commentary upon Judaeo-Christian Old Testament in the Bible:

“Few are guilty but all are responsible.”

Whenever any atrocity is committed, ultimately there will be a small minority of people brought to trial for the crime, but, in a larger sense, all of society is somehow responsible for allowing conditions to develop to a point where an atrocity is committed.

The second thought which came to me is something which Camus wrote: “Perhaps the greatest sin of all is that we hanker after some future after-life, and we ignore the implacable grandeur of this life which we already have.”

Something which is implacable is something which can never be appeased or satisfied. We may appease or satisfy a grandeur through our admiration and wonder. But, an implacable grandeur is one which we can never cease to admire in wonder.

Hi — found you through jewlicious. I like your thoughtful comments over there. I hope you don’t mind if I share this post with some of my Jewish friends who follows the laws of tzunius (modesty). The styles of dress are very similar.

Feel free to share, and if you find anything lovely and modest, please share with us! Also, check out the post on Shukr- they do include a number of modest and flattering styles.