Creating Women's Transformative Abaya Designs to Suit the Equestrian Sport

Abstract

The study aimed to create designs for women's convertible abayas to suit equestrian sports, which achieve the functional aspect that helps female riders practice equestrian sports inside and outside the walls of clubs. It also aimed to achieve the aesthetic aspect in proportion to the age stage of the target group in terms of colors and materials. To achieve the research objectives, The analytical descriptive approach, a number of (9) proposed designs were presented, and the research sample consisted of (15) specialists in the field of clothing and textiles, and a number of (20) female consumers, meaning female jockeys and trainers, to identify the extent of their acceptance of the proposed designs, which numbered (9), and included tools conducted a questionnaire to determine the opinions of both specialists and female consumers, “female riders and trainers,” regarding the proposed designs for women’s convertible abayas to suit equestrian sports. The results proved positive in the research sample’s opinions of the proposed designs, and a number of (1) designs were implemented, which achieved the highest results.