Question about muslims

**mac89** · April 10, 2006, 03:22 PM

When i was in Egypt i naturally saw a lot of muslims and muslima.
My question is do muslima wear different colored clothes depending on how old they are?
like very old woman wearing grey, middle-aged wearing black.
Just asking

**MasterAdnin** · April 10, 2006, 03:28 PM

Nope. It doesn't matter about the age. I would think that it's about how much money you have. The more color, the higher up you are in finance I guess, plus, I don't think there is a term Muslima:wink:.

Adnan

**mac89** · April 10, 2006, 03:29 PM

Are you muslim? besides nobody is rich there besides the president.(he has one heck of a villa!

)
Well there is in Dutch.

**MasterAdnin** · April 10, 2006, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by mac89

Are you muslim? besides nobody is rich there besides the president.(he has one heck of a villa!

)
Well there is in Dutch.

Yea dude, I'm Muslim.

Adnan

**the Black Prince** · April 10, 2006, 03:55 PM

moved to ethos

**AngryTitusPullo** · April 11, 2006, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by mac89

When i was in Egypt i naturally saw a lot of muslims and muslima.
My question is do muslima wear different colored clothes depending on how old they are?
like very old woman wearing grey, middle-aged wearing black.
Just asking

Well, colors maybe differs according to age, but not only for muslims but all women in general I believe.

Well if a 60 y/o granny wears bright red outfit it will look funny isn't it, unless you're Joan Collins.

**ODST** · April 11, 2006, 05:07 AM

What I don't understand is why Muslim women (in Pakistan for example) always seem to wear dark clothes. Surely with the heat and all it would be better to wear white??

**Ahiga** · April 11, 2006, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by ODST

What I don't understand is why Muslim women (in Pakistan for example) always seem to wear dark clothes. Surely with the heat and all it would be better to wear white??

It's an interesting question, especially since some common concepts of bedouin have them in black robes.

The reason is that suprisingly, baggy dark clothing is far better than baggy white in a environment with so much as any wind above 7 miles per hour (or 3 meters per second).

"Under cold conditions with no wind speed, black, flattened plumage held in heat the best (though barely, compared to fluffed black plumage). Under hot conditions with no wind, white, fluffed plumage let heat escape the best. Both pretty logical findings.

But once the wind picked up, the results changed dramatically. With even a modest wind (anything above 3 m/s, or about 7 m.p.h.) fluffed white plumage exhibit the lowest net heat loss. This explains the large number of arctic animals that are fluffy and white. It's not just camouflage. It also explains why we do not see white animals with fluffy fur in the desert, if white was truly the best at heat-decreasing.

At high temperatures, as I say, white is best at not transmitting solar/ambient heat to the skin when windspeed is zero (only barely better when fluffed). However, with an increase in windspeed (again anything above 3 m/s), fluffed black plumage is the best at reducing the amount of heat transmitted to the skin. Flattened black plumage is the worst in terms of heat gain no matter what the windspeed." From the Straightdope website - http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mblackcool.html Is a link explaining it better than I could.

**ODST** · April 12, 2006, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by Ahiga

It's an interesting question, especially since some common concepts of bedouin have them in black robes.

The reason is that suprisingly, baggy dark clothing is far better than baggy white in a environment with so much as any wind above 7 miles per hour (or 3 meters per second).

"Under cold conditions with no wind speed, black, flattened plumage held in heat the best (though barely, compared to fluffed black plumage). Under hot conditions with no wind, white, fluffed plumage let heat escape the best. Both pretty logical findings.

But once the wind picked up, the results changed dramatically. With even a modest wind (anything above 3 m/s, or about 7 m.p.h.) fluffed white plumage exhibit the lowest net heat loss. This explains the large number of arctic animals that are fluffy and white. It's not just camouflage. It also explains why we do not see white animals with fluffy fur in the desert, if white was truly the best at heat-decreasing.

At high temperatures, as I say, white is best at not transmitting solar/ambient heat to the skin when windspeed is zero (only barely better when fluffed). However, with an increase in windspeed (again anything above 3 m/s), fluffed black plumage is the best at reducing the amount of heat transmitted to the skin. Flattened black plumage is the worst in terms of heat gain no matter what the windspeed." From the Straightdope website - http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mblackcool.html Is a link explaining it better than I could.

Wow...that's odd...but I suppose it explains why they wear dark coloured clothes.