TITLE:
Saudi Woman’s Cycling Trend and Sportswear Preferences
AUTHORS:
Afnan Salem Al-Tayyar, Maha Abdullah Al Dabbagh
KEYWORDS:
Women’s Cycling, Sportswear Designers, Cycling Sportswear, Traditional and Cultural Values
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.2,
February
23,
2021
ABSTRACT: In Saudi Arabi, women’s practice of cycling is governed by
some regulations and controls that take into account traditional, religious, and
social considerations. Such regulations and controls are meant to protect women
against potential street accidents or abuses. This research examines Saudi woman’s
preferences for cycling clothes, and the current
situation of women’s practice of cycling in Saudi Arabia with the aim to produce some recommendations that
could enable sportswear designers to produce women’s cycling clothes that take into
account and respect social and religious values. A questionnaire was designed to
examine cycling trend of Saudi Women, and
solicit the opinions of 52 women on the availability of modest cycling sportwear as well as their general preferences for
cycling clothes. Using a
quantitative method, the research’s findings have shown tendency among a majority of surveyed women to wear specialized and
modest cycling clothes in public places, thus signifying the need to design specialized
and modest sportswear for women that conforms to traditional values and Islam teachings.