I Was the Only Muslim in the Store During Ramadan — Here's What Nobody Tells You About Fasting on the Shop Floor
Okay so I've been wanting to write this for a while now, and Ramadan season just feels like the right time to finally get it all out. Grab a drink (I'll be watching you with zero jealousy, promise 😭), get comfy, and let me tell you what it was really like fasting through an entire month while working as a fashion coordinator in a high-end showroom — as the only Muslim on the team. "Just Take Your Break During Iftar, It's Fine!" — Yeah, About That... When you work retail fashion, you don't really own your schedule. The store does. And Ramadan doesn't care about your shift rota, babes. The hardest weeks were when I got assigned evening shifts. You'd think evening shifts and Ramadan would be a match made in heaven, right? Like, oh great, I sleep in, I'm fresh, I break fast at the end of the day. WRONG. Here's what actually happened: Iftar time would roll around — say 7:15pm — and the showroom floor is still buzzing. Customers floating around the ...
