Mocha brown abaya, the everyday neutral

How the mocha brown reads, in daylight and indoors

Mocha Aura is a deep coffee brown with a warm red undertone rather than a grey one, which is what stops it looking muddy. In daylight the red in it is visible and it reads as a rich chocolate. Under indoor light it deepens and sits very close to black from across a room, so it does the job of a black abaya without the severity of one. It is the most useful of the five if you are only buying one, because brown is the neutral almost every accessory already agrees with. Gold jewellery is made for it. Tan, camel and cream bags all work, and so do black ones. Cream, camel, black and deep olive hijabs all sit with it; a cool blue-grey does not. Practically, it is the shade we point people at for the monsoon, since a mid-brown hides splash marks and damp far better than ivory or rose. It reads correctly at a daytime dawat, at a nikkah, and on an ordinary Tuesday, which is not true of maroon.

Choosing a hijab tone to sit with it? Matching a hijab to your abaya colour works through every shade we make.

Keeping the mocha brown looking new

Mocha is the most forgiving shade of the five in the wash. A gentle cold cycle inside out is enough, and it does not need separating from the other dark shades.

Nida and crepe compared covers how each fabric washes and drapes, and the full washing guide goes fabric by fabric.

Mocha Brown Abaya: your questions answered