Scarves MYH's Scarf Showcase - and philosophical ramblings about how I built my collection

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#76
MYH said:
Ok I know this looks like a mess but I promise, I will eventually show each one so you can get a better look.
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Interesting organization , mine are arranged by color , I have a pink box , a purple box and so on , I owe my soul to the container store
Ps this will be an awesome reveal , I did not spy logo scarves - big h , small. Caleche and billions of chaines d ancre , just great designs
 
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#77
MYH said:
OK, let's move on to the 2nd H scarf I bought. I think after this, I'm going to skip around and not show scarves in chronological order. Because really, after my 3rd scarf, I have no idea which was my 4th. It all becomes a blur after #3 because I literally went off the deep end. Ok, back to the story. At this point, I was still a newbie. I just barely discovered purseforum and had no idea there were whole threads started by Uno each season that showed or described the scarves. This resource is priceless folks really. Because as a newbie, if you just walk up to the scarf counter and don't have an idea of what design you are looking for, it's totally overwhelming. I didn't even have in mind the color family I wanted. With an untrained eye, it's easy to buy a mistake (like what happened on my first visit).

Since we were living in Philly at the time and spending quite a few weekends up in NYC for fun. So about a month after I bought my first one, we were in NYC and I could not wait to hit the Madison Ave store. As soon as I walked in, I panicked. People everywhere, chaos, bored husbands, SAs rushing around, and a scarf counter with customers 4 people deep. I was not in Kansas anymore, well, more like King of Prussia. If any of you know or shop at that store, it is tiny. Usually empty, and the SAs there have plenty of time to unfurl each scarf and let me ponder and think about the pros and cons of it. But I refused to leave without a scarf. So I patiently waited my turn and finally, the line in front of me cleared and I could finally peer into the scarf case. Hmmm...still clueless. What did I want? What color family am I looking for? I didn't know and didn't have time to dawdle. There were more people in line behind me. So as I said, I'm drawn to geometric modern designs and I spied this scarf sitting all by itself (turns out it was the first to show up in the new season) and asked the SA to pull it out. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but a strong like and I figured that was good enough. At this point, I was not as discerning as I am now with scarves. I liked the colors in it, the design, and with so much chaos, I asked her to box it up.

Now years later, I do really like this scarf. Because I kind of picked it on impulse, it does have a lemon yellow color in it that is not really my taste but I kind of like it for that reason. On the other hand, it has alot of grey and as you all will soon see, I love grey! Also, I can tie it so the strong teal and lemon yellow colors barely show and only the blue and gray shows. Or I can tie it and show all the colors. So really, it is very versatile. It's also a good year-round scarf and works both day and nighttime. So for an uneducated impulse buy, it worked out great.

And since I wear this scarf often with my Van Cleef 10 motif mother of pearl necklace, I decided to include it in my picture.

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Wow! I never would have guessed that this would look so good tied or be so versatile!

marietouchet said:
Interesting organization , mine are arranged by color , I have a pink box , a purple box and so on , I owe my soul to the container store
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ha! Marie, I have $60 worth of those little travel bottles from the container store sitting out at the moment, trying to organize my products to be as compact and weightless as possible for my trip next week.
 
#78
marietouchet said:
Interesting organization , mine are arranged by color , I have a pink box , a purple box and so on , I owe my soul to the container store
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This was just me dumping them on the ground and trying to get all the silks to fit into one camera shot. But in actuality, they kind of go randomly into my drawers too. The only organization is by size. Yes, I'm a silk slob. :whistle:
 
#79
Neat!



I've always looked at this design and thought "hmmmmmm...." ( my son is a chess player). It's great to see it tied, very nice!



I have to say that that Madison Ave. experience sounds like a nightmare. What I loved most about my one foray into an Hermes boutique (for myself) thanks to Pocketbook Pup and thegriswolds was how we could leisurely look at how ever many scarves we wanted, set aside the ones we were thinking about, come back to them, change our minds, come back again, pull from the scarf selection at will. The patience of our SA was readily rewarded! It was just so delightful to chat to her about the designs, and the colors and what we knew and what she knew.



I'm also with you on losing track after the first two! I know the "early" ones from the "late" ones, but that's about it!



Keep em coming MYH!
 
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#82
I love the contrast hems on both scarves and your matching jewelry. For your first scarf, I really like the second knot with the scarf ring as well as the last one with farandole necklace. Is it 120? Is that easier to wear with scarves than 160?

Both scarves match so well with your jewelry, gorgeous! In my attempt to analyze your strategy, do you buy the accessories like the bracelets with your scarf collection in mind, or is your color taste in jewelry similar to the scarves that they happen to match?
 
#83
MYH said:
Ok, I'll start with my favorite. It was so hard to decide. I would say I have a top 5 that I cannot part with and I had to look at each one carefully just now. Funny enough, I did not have a "favorite" in my head until Mimi and Pocketbook Pup just asked me. So, here it is.

De La Mer Au Ciel

I just love the colors in this scarf. It has a lot of what I call Hermes "gold" in it, a caramel color that just makes me :love: Also, I really love navy and coral together and this scarf has both. I have taken a pic of it with my gold legende sandals and my gold kelly 32. I also piled on a bunch of bracelets I also wear with this scarf (not all together) that also coordinate with this scarf.

And this scarf has a feature I absolutely adore in scarves. An asymmetrical design. That means, you can tie a cowboy knot with the four corners and have a different looking scarf each time. That makes this scarf all the more versatile and valuable. In fact, my little sis loved this scarf so much, she bought one for herself too.

Here's a pic with my shoes, bag, and accessories. And another I took from the US H.com website because there's no way I can take a picture of the whole scarf any better than Hermes does.

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Unusual CW of De la Mer, and so lovely on you! The navy and caramel together are yummy.

Also: GREAT THREAD!!
 
#85
MYH said:
OK, let's move on to the 2nd H scarf I bought. I think after this, I'm going to skip around and not show scarves in chronological order. Because really, after my 3rd scarf, I have no idea which was my 4th. It all becomes a blur after #3 because I literally went off the deep end. Ok, back to the story. At this point, I was still a newbie. I just barely discovered purseforum and had no idea there were whole threads started by Uno each season that showed or described the scarves. This resource is priceless folks really. Because as a newbie, if you just walk up to the scarf counter and don't have an idea of what design you are looking for, it's totally overwhelming. I didn't even have in mind the color family I wanted. With an untrained eye, it's easy to buy a mistake (like what happened on my first visit).

Since we were living in Philly at the time and spending quite a few weekends up in NYC for fun. So about a month after I bought my first one, we were in NYC and I could not wait to hit the Madison Ave store. As soon as I walked in, I panicked. People everywhere, chaos, bored husbands, SAs rushing around, and a scarf counter with customers 4 people deep. I was not in Kansas anymore, well, more like King of Prussia. If any of you know or shop at that store, it is tiny. Usually empty, and the SAs there have plenty of time to unfurl each scarf and let me ponder and think about the pros and cons of it. But I refused to leave without a scarf. So I patiently waited my turn and finally, the line in front of me cleared and I could finally peer into the scarf case. Hmmm...still clueless. What did I want? What color family am I looking for? I didn't know and didn't have time to dawdle. There were more people in line behind me. So as I said, I'm drawn to geometric modern designs and I spied this scarf sitting all by itself (turns out it was the first to show up in the new season) and asked the SA to pull it out. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but a strong like and I figured that was good enough. At this point, I was not as discerning as I am now with scarves. I liked the colors in it, the design, and with so much chaos, I asked her to box it up.

Now years later, I do really like this scarf. Because I kind of picked it on impulse, it does have a lemon yellow color in it that is not really my taste but I kind of like it for that reason. On the other hand, it has alot of grey and as you all will soon see, I love grey! Also, I can tie it so the strong teal and lemon yellow colors barely show and only the blue and gray shows. Or I can tie it and show all the colors. So really, it is very versatile. It's also a good year-round scarf and works both day and nighttime. So for an uneducated impulse buy, it worked out great.

And since I wear this scarf often with my Van Cleef 10 motif mother of pearl necklace, I decided to include it in my picture.

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This is a great scarf -- I love the different edges of this design -- and really awesome colors (grey and teal are high on my list of faves). Why don't I have this scarf yet? Hm....
 
#86
MYH said:
This was just me dumping them on the ground and trying to get all the silks to fit into one camera shot. But in actuality, they kind of go randomly into my drawers too. The only organization is by size. Yes, I'm a silk slob. :whistle:
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I'm a slob too. All my 90s are in one big drawer (vaguely separated by light or dark), and other sizes are in another drawer. Really wintry/holiday scarves are somewhere else. Right now I forget where!!
 
#87
MYH, thank you for starting this thread and sharing your story. For someone who's not good at writing, I feel as if I'm at the store with you behind all those people at the scarf counter. I'll come back to visit this thread again and again just so I can take this journey along with you. :D

I must confess though that I'm not a scarfie, or so I thought. Scarves happened to be the first items I ever bought from H for a few years before branching off into bags. I love reading about how you chose your first two and can't wait to read about the rest, especially since there's no rhyme or reason to how I picked mine other than I liked a design and color composition. I think I viewed the scarves more like paintings but I'm slowly learning more and more that may be it's not the most sensible approach as some of my scarves don't look good tied or more like don't look good tied on me.

After reading this thread I went to count how many scarves I have. Not nearly as many as you I'm afraid, but oivay, I have 24. Yikes, I didn't realize I own anything close to that! 6 of which have not even been worn yet and only 1 of these 6 is from this season. So I'm now hoping that through your story and others' contribution I may be a little bit more informed about how to go about choosing my next scarf or even to edit my collection. BTW, I only discovered Uno's upcoming seasonal scarf thread just over a year ago--so helpful!

I also want to mention that I like the way you store your scarves. I keep mine in their boxes but it makes it hard to pick out which one to wear in the morning especially I'm a just in time kind of person. May be I'll wear my scarves more if they're easily accessible. I even tried to label my boxes but it's not getting me to use the scarves any more than before, which is not much.

So please keep on sharing your story. :Dhttp://forum.purseblog.com//www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/
 
#88
papertiger said:
I am soooo enjoying this thread. Not enough threads are devoted to non-bag things and this is the best scarf one so far for me because you give insight into your MO which I find very interesting :yahoo:

Interesting to see how many scarves we have in common (bolded, twins on the DD Mawari) :ghi5: and how are collections differ. You also have about 10 scarves that could have bought if I hadn't of already purchased so many in the season - I still think about photo finish and in the cw.

I shall be back to read more
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Papertiger, You took the words right out of my head: "I am soooo enjoying this thread. Not enough threads are devoted to non-bag things and this is the best scarf one so far for me because you give insight into your MO which I find very interesting". This is the first thread I go to in the evening now, because it is so informative, enthralling really. Thank you, MYH, for giving us such pleasure each day. It's an incredible trove of informative enjoyment.
 
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#89
werner said:
Thank you so much for the idea of using acid free paper. I couldn't find it in the Container Store, but did find it on Amazon. LINECO - Unbuffered Acid-Free Tissue Paper, 30x40", Pack of 12.
After some Googling, it was recommended to use Unbuffered for silks and cashmeres. Hope this helps other TPFers who are looking to line their drawers.
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Hi Werner - Yes I believe they still do as I bought a pack from their SF store in the beginning of the year.:smile1:
 
#90
Oooh, I love Echec au Roi! You look fantastic in the scarf. The design is so unique, and the way it looks when you’ve tied it makes me think, “This is why H scarves are worth buying. No one else can do what they do.” The other brand that makes me think that way is Diane von Furstenberg. :smile1:

Alas, this design was released before I started looking at H scarves (fall 2014), and the only remaining CWs on the H website at the time were unflattering. When I found a picture in the spring 2013 thread of someone modeling EaR in a red, white, and black CW, I swooned and also sighed at realizing the consequences to being late to the H party. :p Oh well, at least there will be others.
 
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