Lookbook
There are no photographs on this page. So far the garments exist on camera only in the supplier’s book: group shots of three models, garment rails, and panels of several frames side by side. That is not a lookbook. Our own photography follows once the first shipment lands. Until then, here is what we do know precisely.
The colours of the collection
The collection runs on seven colours: four browns, black, beige and white.
- Black appears on every style.
- Brown is a deep chocolate. It sits on the linen pieces.
- Coffee is warmer and lighter than brown, with a red undertone.
- Dark Coffee is the deepest brown we carry, with a plum note in it.
- Camel is a caramel brown and the lightest of the four.
- Beige is warm and greyed, neither cream nor sand.
- White appears on the khimars only.
Nothing bright is in the range, and no green. That is not a matter of taste. Across eighteen Dutch and Belgian shops, almost six thousand observations, brown, beige and taupe together make up a quarter of what is offered. Black is twelve percent. Neutral is what this market stands on, and the collection stands on it too.
Camel, not khaki
The supplier prints this colour as Khaki. Three labelled photographs show a caramel brown with no trace of green in it. Dutch reads khaki as olive green, so under that name you would be ordering a colour that is not in the box. On the site it is called Camel. On the SKU and the packing list it stays KHAKI, because that is the word the supplier packs it under.
How the colours were read
The dot beside a colour name on this site is measured, not chosen. For each colour a small patch of flat cloth was read off one of the supplier’s own photographs, and for every patch we noted where in which frame it sat. Where the supplier prints a colour as a name and photographs it nowhere, that colour gets no dot. A plausible gold is indistinguishable from a measured one on a screen, and nothing beats a guess there.
The shapes
An open abaya stays open at the front. You wear it over a slip dress or over your own clothes.
A closed dress is closed at the front, with long sleeves and a straight fall.
A khimar is a fitted head covering that falls over the shoulders. Its length decides how much it covers. The two-layer one measures 100 centimetres at the front and 130 at the back, so it covers the chest. The three-layer one measures 146 centimetres and falls past the hip.
A set is a dress with a matching khimar, or an abaya with a matching hijab, in one fabric.
A slip dress is the sleeveless layer under an open abaya. Choose it in the same length as your abaya.
The fabrics in the collection right now are linen, satin, nida and crinkle polyester. Nida is a matte crepe that hangs with weight and does not shine.
Sizes are lengths
An abaya’s size here is a length in centimetres, not a body measurement. The linen open abaya runs from 138 centimetres at M to 153 at 2XL, in steps of five. Hold that number against your own height before you choose. Every style carries the supplier’s own size table, with shoulder, sleeve, bust and length.
The jersey line
Alongside the sourced garments sits Riha, our own line. Seven colours of premium jersey, sewn to order: Mocha, Sand, Dusty Bone, Sage, Espresso, Cloud and Storm. One size, 180 by 75 centimetres, €14.99.
These seven stand on different ground from the seven above. They were not read off a photograph but stated by us, because we have the cloth dyed. So there is no photograph to check them against, now or later.
Why there are no photographs here
The supplier’s book was walked frame by frame on 6 August 2026, all 1886 images of it. Not one of the ten garments appears on its own anywhere in it. Every frame is a collage of three or four models, a rail of hanging garments, or a panel of several photographs side by side. The largest single garment that can be cut out of any of them reaches about 330 pixels on its short edge, where a product page wants 800.
So the product pages carry the supplier’s frame as it is, with a line underneath saying what you are looking at. A few of them show colours we do not carry, and that is written there too. This page would rather show nothing than a photograph of something else.
Where to go next
Browse all abayas, the khimars and the premium jersey hijab. The post on choosing an abaya and a khimar sets out the differences by fabric, by length and by colour.