In all seriousness, on this topic… I’m curious for opinions of those who have been collecting Hermes scarves for awhile (I just started this year, was gifted my first one maybe 7 years ago but until recently never had the urge to buy my own).
How much do you try to balance loving a design and getting it in multiple colorways, vs. branching out? (I know we just had a multiples theme!) Same question perhaps for gravitating to a specific/consistent color scheme, even across designs. I’m finding that I really like a few of the current designs such as Robe Legere or Lanternes, and wondering how slippery this slope can be…
Sorry if this is off-topic here!
Here's a great question from
@greycity over in SOTD and it seems like it may be ripe for some convo again so I'll give my (current) answer here.
Multiple colorways was definitely a slippery slope for me. At first, I had a hard "no multiples" rule. Then it got "bent" to no multiples in the same format. Then Jaguar Quetzal came along, and I literally spent months second guessing the original purchase with a second colorway. This was before 90cm scarves were over $400 and so I ended up getting 2 colorways.
My second time I second and third guessed myself was Zebra Pegasus giant triangle from last year. Although I still like my (eventual) choice of the pink colorway, there is a little part of me that still wishes I went with the vermillion. Sadly, the price was self limiting and my budget just wouldn't allow 2 of those at the time (maybe I'll find a deal one day on the vermillion, who knows...)
That brings me to Chorus Stellarum and the C'est la Fete connundrum. For me, with C'est la Fete and having missed the CW I would have been most happy with in the original release I ended up with a second choice I found preloved. Then, not liking the colors or price on the double sided re-release, I passed on that. So when I saw CS, which is (to me) just a good a design or better then ClaF, I knew I had to have at least one. Once I had it in my hand, I knew I had to have 2....then can't get my mind off the 3rd. But I've bought and re-homed a number of scarves now over the years to know when something is likely to "stick" with me for a good long time, and CS definitely sets off those buzzers in my head!
Not many scarves do that, and this is ONLY one I have ever fallen for 3 in the same season.
Now, this isn't the only scarf I have 3 of...remember I said Jaguar Questzel. Well, after I got the 2 silks, and they matched 2 of my cats so well, I had to get a 3rd for my beloved Finnegan (avatar), who was the third in that trio of cats. He passed away in July, and I bought the giant cashmere in his colors as a commemorative to him back in February, when we received the diagnosis on his heart. So now I have 3 Jaguar Quetzal too, just not all in the same season.
Right now, you've just started. You don't know yet what will hold your attention long term. You won't know what keeps you happy long term without some sort of exploration. Sometimes, that may mean more than one of something you love. It's easy to do. You get more picky as the numbers pile up, and suddenly you have 50 scarves and you're like wooooah there doggies! Then it is cull or keep, which one to do? Buckle down, buy less?
After a few seasons of this, I think you'll start to see a pattern with what you are drawn too, what you consistently like, and what is passing fancy. Neither are wrong impulses to make a purchase on IMO, and fine to also recognize a purchase may be a passing fancy (those I try to limit to one only). But it's a skill I think would be hard to have right off the bat, and more likely acquired over time.`
As for color schemes- personally, I wish H would quit it and go back to choosing colors to fit the scarf rather than their themes. It makes for better designs.
I don't know how many more times I need to learn that lesson... the lettres gav is ok though, it reads more apricot due to the color mix, which is fine.
