Scarves

[fetaby]

I wear one in the winter. It's a nice brown plaid pattern and the material is very soft.

 

[justsimon]

I wear one in the winter. The hipsters wear them year-round.

 

[Asenath]

It doesn't really get cold enough to wear a scarf here - it snows maybe once a year, and other than that it's just dry and unpleasant. Or damp and chilly.

But I do love them on other people. I read Sartorialist & Garance Dore, and the other street style blogs in cities like New York & Paris, where it does get cold enough -- and I'm jealous until I remember that scarves mean snow. Snow is evil.

 

[Corny]

I wear one in the winter. The hipsters wear them year-round.

Hipster trend at gay parties here: get shirtless on the dancefloor BUT keep your scarf ...

 

[Ram]

Hipster trend at gay parties here: get shirtless on the dancefloor BUT keep your scarf ...

Oh my fucking god yes. It's over here in Singapore as well. Not a trend but it is slooooowly becoming one.

I want to destroy all hipsters.

 

[purina]

I just turn my collar up.

Be careful with those scarves - especially the apricot ones!



^That's really more of a tangerine, so just steer clear of the fruity ones.​

 

[braex27]

I have one, black and white, which I wear in winter. That's about it. I've never been into scarves aesthetically.

 

[Swellegant]

I wear scarves all the time... my neck gets cold easily. I mostly wear extra-long cashmere (two favorites a friend sent me from Afghanistan) or fake pashmina in various colors and patterns that I pick up here and there... in the women's department. My winter scarves are usually acrylic, any wool coarser than cashmere gives me a chafe, but extra-long scarves were very popular a couple years ago and I stocked up.

I don't notice men wearing scarves around here, much. But all the ladies love mine, especially my black-and-cream paisley that I wear all the time because it goes with everything, which I got at Goodwill.

 

[Ram]

^ That is really pretty, Swell. I love it.


(and the hanging Ipod :lol)

 

[Sam Blum]

I like scarves and have probably around fifteen of them. Five are silk for going out fully dressed - Crushed and coloured with bold stripes of Prussian blue and white; deep purple/blueberry with a faint repeating shield pattern(very fine and small detail); maroon, white but self patterned (Karl Lagerfeld), and one black and textured (Boss). Four are summer cotton scarves and oh, I have sixteen, the rest are woolen blends with cashmere, angora or silk, with one just jersey wool and one not woolen but some kind of thick, roughly woven synthetic in a large camel and pale blue and chocolate check.

Scarves and ties are basically the same idea but from different populations, I think.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Not a fan of scarves. Will never wear one.

This. Feel the same way about scarves as I do about turtlenecks - they are annoying.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I have like 1 or 2, but only wear them in EXTREME cold here.

Um... I assume you mean the long winter ones guys wear?

Or do you mean the head ones?

NO offense Travis, but I could see you rocking both styles.

***Confession*** I've always wished Capes and Cloaks would come back into style.

 

[unloadonme]

I have several scarves. Most are stripey, but my favourite is a grey silky one which cost as much as all the others put together.

 

[Asenath]

***Confession*** I've always wished Capes and Cloaks would come back into style.

In high school, I rocked my red velvet ren faire cloak from the first fallen leaf up until Easter. It was. . .uh. It was a whole lot of look.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

In high school, I rocked my red velvet ren faire cloak from the first fallen leaf up until Easter. It was. . .uh. It was a whole lot of look.

Where would one even find one? I've NEVER seen them on racks in clothing stores.

 

[ixthrock]

If you love scarves, you MUST contact this guy. Kevyn gave me a scarf crafted from one of his "Madrone" warps as a gift for discovering and returning a "lost" sofa throw crafted from the same warp - it's a funny story, actually.

Kevyn is a true old-world craftsman. In his weaving, he sacrifices complexity of pattern for richness of texture - he uses greatly varied yarn/thread textures, colors and weights in his warps, which creates an enormous challenge. In order for the whole piece to not unravel, every 1/16th of an inch of the warp has to be the same weight, so there's no imbalance and hence tugging or bunching. I had no idea so much complex math was needed in weaving, but in Kevyn's work, apparently, it is! He told me it takes about three months from start to finish to produce material from his loom - about one month designing a warp and calculating all the yarn weights for evenness of texture, about a month for laying out the yarn on the loom, and another month to actually weave. This doesn't count the time involved in shopping for yarn beforehand or all the cutting and finishwork for individual pieces as the product comes off the loom. His warps are thus seasonal and inspired by nature.

I had volunteered to clean out Oskrr's "box," a camper shell filled with personal junk that no-one could bring themselves to do since his passing a couple of years before. I found a huge sofa throw, obviously Kevyn's work - lush, rich... I threw it over my shoulders and ran downhill the meadow triumphantly - I had been told I could keep whatever I found, and was now draped in a $2,000 luxury item until Kiwi thought he recognised it and told me the story.

Apparently, during a three-day business meeting several years before, Kevyn had been engaged in tieing off the selvages on this particular piece of fabric when he had to get up to pee. He set his work aside, and, when he returned, it had disappeared. No-one ever owned up to the theft. Sensing the right thing to do despite my enormous disappointment, I returned it to Kevyn, and in gratitude he gave me the scarf that is probably my favorite article of clothing to this day.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

ebay? ren faires? costume/specialty clothing stores? make your own?

I wore a cape to my senior prom. I bought it on ebay.

I'm not brave enough to wear one unless they were in style, and everyone else was wearing one too.

 

[quasar]

...***Confession*** I've always wished Capes and Cloaks would come back into style.

I'd LOVE for them to come back in fashion (probably the vampire in me!)

Where would one even find one? I've NEVER seen them on racks in clothing stores.

High end gentlemen's tailors and - when I got one some twenty years ago - suppliers of clerical wear (clergy, not office!) The ones for clerics are heavier wool made.

As for scarves, I love wearing them in winter - I have 6, nothing exciting, just various colours.

 

[Asenath]

Where would one even find one? I've NEVER seen them on racks in clothing stores.

E-bay. Historical reenactment webpages. Sew it yourself - I'm working on a circle-cloak to go with some early European garb I'm going to wear later this winter. Beware of anything shiny or stretchy, and be very picky with the fabric.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

It's good to see I'm in good company, and not a total freak on my cape/cloak desires!

Thanks Guys!!!