Scarves Scarf of the Day 2021 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

[MAGJES]

A funny ghost story today. A few years ago, the local museum arranged some Halloween-themed activities. One of which was a talk by the paranormal society. I took my kids to listen to it. One of the stories told had to do with selling salt. Yep, in Singapore, the ghosts will buy salt

According to local ghost lore, if you are desperate for cash, buy lots of salt, package it into tiny bags, then go stake out a spot in the cemetery for overnight sales. Keep your head down and, when a spectral hand comes into view, take the cash from the hand and pass it a bag of salt.

The intrepid paranormal investigators decided to go sell salt. Late that night, they got very excited when they saw ghostly lights bobbing in the cemetery, coming ever closer. It must be ghostly customers! Paranormal proof!

Nope, it turned out to be flashlights used by policemen who wanted to know what they were doing, lurking in a cemetery

My salt scarves: white table salt Carreves, grey fleur de sel Apres le Deluge and pink Himalayan salt Etude Pour Une Parure de Gala.
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You have the most interesting stories! I am loving that grey fleur de sel Apres le Deluge!

 

[MAGJES]

Toys in an attic can evoke both sentimental memories of the golden days of childhood or perhaps feelings of abandonment and sorrow. Tales have also been written in which toys—especially dolls—are full of evil intent and downright creepiness. (The phrase can also colloquially mean someone who’s sanity is in question, but that’s for another day). We live in an historical building in New Orleans, originally founded as a girls' asylum and orphanage and subsequently purchased by Ann Rice, the author of the Vampire Lestat books and the trilogy The Witches of Mayfair set in her hometown of New Orleans. Rice restored the building with period décor and furnishings, but she kept the chapel intact, using it to house her extensive collections of dolls, miniatures and religious artifacts. St Elizabeth’s was not only her home but also a gallery (see photos).

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St. Elizabeth's was divided into 21 condo units in 2003. Ours is on the top two floors of the left-facing tower. It is rich in associations for the city, and very much associated with Ann Rice and her vampires, witches and ghosts. Events were held there and tours were offered to the public so many people visited the doll museum/chapel. For today's theme, I am wearing Zabavushka, which celebrates the famous Russian toy museum, showing the corner full of nesting dolls:
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I've not seen this bold colorway before and it is a beauty!!
Creepiness aside.....I love reading the history behind your New Orleans home. St. Elizabeth's is a beauty as well.

 

[bunnycat]

Agree.....not a very "weird" dream but what I would classify as a challenging Hermes silk outing! The thrill and excitement felt upon finding a store filled with H silks would definitely surpass a car breakdown. I feel I can weigh in on that only because I experienced a car breakdown two weeks ago .....which actually might be on theme this week because I was wearing a CSGM at the time and definitely was fearful when I realized i could not continue on with my planned trip.

For sure!

For him it was weird because a) dreaming about a scarf??? and b)his dreams usually go something like:

Him: I had a weird dream.
Me: Yeah??? (feeling hopeful)
Him: Yeah, I was in class giving a lecture, but nobody was listening...
Me: OK, and...???? Were you naked? Or drunk? Were there any aliens involved?
Him: No...
Me: (outside) ..... (inside )

 

[Redbirdhermes]

Native Americans seeing the Ghost Riders of departed souls in the sky are not the only cultures who populated the night sky with characters important in their lives. Most of the constellation names that we are familiar with come from ancient Middle Eastern, Greek, and Roman cultures. Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale, also known as Zodiaque, was originally designed for Hermes in 1938 by Hugo Grygkar, and was redesigned in 1994 by Loic Dubigeon. It is based on a star chart that was popular during the Renaissance period and Neo-Classical Age.

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Showing some of the constellations in Hemispaerium Coeli Boreale. Such characters are like ghosts in the sky and, as such, can be tied back to the song, "Ghost Riders in the Sky".

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In the song, the ghost cowboys are chasing the devil's herd through the sky. The image of Taurus the Bull is seen at the edge of the scarf. Taurus is not named in the Hermes version, but I show the equivalent portion of the design from another Renaissance Hemispaerium Coeli Boreale drawing where he is. The song says the cows are red-eyed and their horns were black and shiny. My red scarf is in keeping with the devil's theme.

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Introducing my new-to-me Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale, or Zodiaque, as my Scarf of the Day.

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Many cultures saw Ghost Riders in the Sky not only in the stars, but also much closer to home in our own Moon. What we call the Man in the Moon has been seen as Cain the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. Also, seen in various cultures are a woodcutter caught working on the Sabbath and banished to the Moon, a sheep-thief, a boy gathering sticks, a woman wearing jewelry, and in Japanese mythology, there is a tribe of human-like spiritual beings living on the Moon.

Here are some examples of the pareidolic images (looks like it's there, but it really isn't) seen on the Moon. (Credit to Wikipedia)



My favorite is the second image above of a rabbit. When Apollo 11 was going to the Moon in 1969, the astronauts were alerted by NASA to be on the lookout for the rabbit.

Here is the transcript.

"NASA: Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, is one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-O has been living there for 4,000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.

"Astronaut Michael Collins: Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl."

=========================
More recently, Hermes designer Dimitri Rybaltchenko gives us a pareidolic image (or is it really there??) of Pegasus in the Moon. The Story Behind reads:

"As though revealing the hidden face of the Moon, the scarf is divided between shadow and light. A crescent showered in stars borders a wide disk upon which the powerful body of the winged horse, Pegasus, appears - a divine creature with a disheveled mane."

Here is Gris/Blanc version of this Ghostly image in Clair de Lune.



My SOTD is Clair de Lune, with the mythical Pegasus as my Ghost Rider in the Sky. I'm using the rando knot from @blydia and wearing my (Man in the) Moonstone pendant.

 

[Nomad]

It was a dark and stormy night, and while walking in the rain wasn’t too fun - the moon was full and the garden was lovely.
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She’d noticed the sign leading to the garden’s path was a little rusty and hidden, but the path was clear and she hoped it would lead her to a shelter. As she walked, she saw small blue roses glowing along the path. Was it the moonlight shining on the dew-like rain drops, or were they some sort of unusual rose?
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The storm clouds moved and hid the moon, there was a sudden loud crash of thunder. It startled her and she began to run down the path, not seeing where she was going.
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As she ran, the path grew narrow, and she felt tendrils snatching at her ankles and thorns catching on her sleeves. The blue glow had become brighter and she could also see purple gleaming in the roses which had grown huge. A thick tendril covered in thorns wrapped around her waist and lifted her off her feet, as the overpowering scent of roses filled her head.

It was a dark and stormy night.

La Rosee
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perfect Halloween week dark and mysterious colorway. Wonderful on the purple top. I love your rosee version better than my no design one haha.

no ghost story but spiritual meaning for kawa ora
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great info. This design shines in the two tone colors. I liked the blue pink version for the same reason but never hit buy. Now regret of course seeing how lovely it is on you And in your wonderful knots.

True story: last night I dreamt I was in some outdoor market and found a cream and copper colored Voyage a Pytheas in one of the stalls. I happily paid $612 for it and ran to show @Living.la.vida.fifi who immediately spotted a big stain and then informed me it was a completely different design.

What a nightmare.

But because the temps fell 20° overnight and the rain moved in, I was able to sashay out the door in Sweet (Sweat?) Dreams

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crazy dream haha. I love this on you!! Something about it. The size maybe with the classic colors? Or the tie? Regardless your matching lippie smile seals the deal for an amazing model shot.

I'm really enjoying everyone's stories and scarves this week!

This week, I hadn't thought I would have much opportunity to share as I'm just not that creative when it comes to stories, but the spirits have willed it otherwise. Like @Snausages , my next story revolves around a dream from a couple of days ago. Well, not MY dream, but Mr BCs.

It is a well known fact in House of Bunnycat that I have weird dreams. And the other day Mr BC declared that one of my dreams had been misdelivered to him the night before.

Apparently, we were driving in the car in some out of the way town, and stopped at a little country store with no people around. We went in to look around, and found that there were dozens and dozens of H scarves of all sizes there for an amazing deal. (Yes please!!!!! ) Apparently I went bananas in the store with full Sales Goggles (copyright @Cookiefiend ) and then we left and the car broke down (yeah, that's my actual real kind of luck...). Of course, he thought this was the height of weirdness, but I duly informed him that there had been no mention of being spies on a mission, trying to escape from aliens that were planning on taking over the world, and having a few things explode....so in my dictionary, not tooooo weird except for the country store in the middle of nowhere we happened to find full of H scarves.

Now here is the more eerie part. Last week, I DID have a SERIOUS attack of Sales Goggles. In fact, the bargain was so good, I said "damn the torpedos and my CC bill!", dropped everything else like a hot potato, and bought it. And... I did not tell Mr BC about it...And it quietly got delivered with no fanfare at all while he was out for a walk so he didn't know that yet another CSGM has quietly slipped in to my corral......

So I think the dream was delivered to warn him by ALLLLLL my rather frugal grandparents and great grandparents and aunts and uncles who probably spin in the graves every times an H scarf wings its way in to my scarf drawer.....like a strange "In the Mirror, Darkly" version of It's a Wonderful Life....


WHICH SCARF???
WITCH SCARF????

===> And which scarf it is, I will keep you in suspense for the rest of the week, as it fits next week's theme very well..... <=====

But here is my DREAMY Karnak mousseline I wore yesterday instead, in colors which always say "dreamtime" to me

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call me crazy, I don’t remember seeing you in such neutrals. It looks equally great on you as your brights. N note to self that a bright lip adds so much to the balance. Your look is so great!

Many cultures saw Ghost Riders in the Sky not only in the stars, but also much closer to home in our own Moon. What we call the Man in the Moon has been seen as Cain the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. Also, seen in various cultures are a woodcutter caught working on the Sabbath and banished to the Moon, a sheep-thief, a boy gathering sticks, a woman wearing jewelry, and in Japanese mythology, there is a tribe of human-like spiritual beings living on the Moon.

Here are some examples of the pareidolic images (looks like it's there, but it really isn't) seen on the Moon. (Credit to Wikipedia)

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My favorite is the second image above of a rabbit. When Apollo 11 was going to the Moon in 1969, the astronauts were alerted by NASA to be on the lookout for the rabbit.

Here is the transcript.

"NASA: Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, is one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-O has been living there for 4,000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.

"Astronaut Michael Collins: Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl."

=========================
More recently, Hermes designer Dimitri Rybaltchenko gives us a pareidolic image (or is it really there??) of Pegasus in the Moon. The Story Behind reads:

"As though revealing the hidden face of the Moon, the scarf is divided between shadow and light. A crescent showered in stars borders a wide disk upon which the powerful body of the winged horse, Pegasus, appears - a divine creature with a disheveled mane."

Here is Gris/Blanc version of this Ghostly image in Clair de Lune.

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My SOTD is Clair de Lune, with the mythical Pegasus as my Ghost Rider in the Sky. I'm using the rando knot from @blydia and wearing my (Man in the) Moonstone pendant.

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Wonderful post. This striking blue looks great on you and the yellow brings it up even another notch. Is this rando knot? Whatever it is it is a wonderful Unique tie look for the design.

 

[sonozen]

The ghostly owl on its night hunt… alright I just wanted to wear my new owl earrings and I decided that I need a scarf with owls to go with it!

La Danse des Amazones:

Ophelia the maroon owl


Othello the golden owl

(Yea I was a literature major and I do so like Shakespeare... )

In the end, Ophelia went out with me cause I decided on a maroon top with a terracotta cardigan.

 

[Awillow]

Not spooky. Reverie Solitaire in blue today.

 

[Croisette7]

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Gorgeous, Awillow!

 

[Croisette7]

SOTD Le Mors a la Conétable CSGM

 

[Nomad]

Not spooky. Reverie Solitaire in blue today.View attachment 5240750

Very cool graphic looking scarf. And blue. Nothing better to me

 

[Nomad]

Virgin outing scarf. I have worn my green several times now but not this guy yet. Ummmm yeah love it! At least I have the satisfaction that indeed I should have bought it a year ago lol. ( wait is it a year and half ago this came out now??) I was forever hesitant to wear these bc I thought they were just too gorgeous to wear

 

[Agrume]

Yesterday for Hallowmas, wearing the perfect skeletal scarf of the Season....C'est la Fete... (this one is the original 70cm, in the Kaki dip dye colorway)

Living in Texas, it is inevitable I grew up appreciating many Mexican cultural traditions, among them Dia de los Muertos, which I think officially goes from November 1-2. But Halloween, and the following 2 days comprise a a full event since the early Middle Ages called Allhallowtide. Of course, this one has a more serious tone to it, so I think I'll stick to the more light hearted and celebratory Dia de los Muertos.


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I'm really enjoying everyone's stories and scarves this week!

This week, I hadn't thought I would have much opportunity to share as I'm just not that creative when it comes to stories, but the spirits have willed it otherwise. Like @Snausages , my next story revolves around a dream from a couple of days ago. Well, not MY dream, but Mr BCs.

It is a well known fact in House of Bunnycat that I have weird dreams. And the other day Mr BC declared that one of my dreams had been misdelivered to him the night before.

Apparently, we were driving in the car in some out of the way town, and stopped at a little country store with no people around. We went in to look around, and found that there were dozens and dozens of H scarves of all sizes there for an amazing deal. (Yes please!!!!! ) Apparently I went bananas in the store with full Sales Goggles (copyright @Cookiefiend ) and then we left and the car broke down (yeah, that's my actual real kind of luck...). Of course, he thought this was the height of weirdness, but I duly informed him that there had been no mention of being spies on a mission, trying to escape from aliens that were planning on taking over the world, and having a few things explode....so in my dictionary, not tooooo weird except for the country store in the middle of nowhere we happened to find full of H scarves.

Now here is the more eerie part. Last week, I DID have a SERIOUS attack of Sales Goggles. In fact, the bargain was so good, I said "damn the torpedos and my CC bill!", dropped everything else like a hot potato, and bought it. And... I did not tell Mr BC about it...And it quietly got delivered with no fanfare at all while he was out for a walk so he didn't know that yet another CSGM has quietly slipped in to my corral......

So I think the dream was delivered to warn him by ALLLLLL my rather frugal grandparents and great grandparents and aunts and uncles who probably spin in the graves every times an H scarf wings its way in to my scarf drawer.....like a strange "In the Mirror, Darkly" version of It's a Wonderful Life....


WHICH SCARF???
WITCH SCARF????

===> And which scarf it is, I will keep you in suspense for the rest of the week, as it fits next week's theme very well..... <=====

But here is my DREAMY Karnak mousseline I wore yesterday instead, in colors which always say "dreamtime" to me

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your dark ClF is beautiful, and your Karnak really soothing. And Mr Bunnycat will like your new acquisition, I'm sure about it.

GTN was going to be my scarf of the day for it’s virgin outing. But I remembered I sprayed perfume today and dont do that when I am wearing a silk. So I wiped as much as I could off and put on the scarf for a photo and then took it off. Never even got to take the tag off .
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Lovely wintery colours, Nomad!

True story: last night I dreamt I was in some outdoor market and found a cream and copper colored Voyage a Pytheas in one of the stalls. I happily paid $612 for it and ran to show @Living.la.vida.fifi who immediately spotted a big stain and then informed me it was a completely different design.

What a nightmare.

But because the temps fell 20° overnight and the rain moved in, I was able to sashay out the door in Sweet (Sweat?) Dreams

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Yes, this is a perfect scarf for this week, Snausages!

A funny ghost story today. A few years ago, the local museum arranged some Halloween-themed activities. One of which was a talk by the paranormal society. I took my kids to listen to it. One of the stories told had to do with selling salt. Yep, in Singapore, the ghosts will buy salt

According to local ghost lore, if you are desperate for cash, buy lots of salt, package it into tiny bags, then go stake out a spot in the cemetery for overnight sales. Keep your head down and, when a spectral hand comes into view, take the cash from the hand and pass it a bag of salt.

The intrepid paranormal investigators decided to go sell salt. Late that night, they got very excited when they saw ghostly lights bobbing in the cemetery, coming ever closer. It must be ghostly customers! Paranormal proof!

Nope, it turned out to be flashlights used by policemen who wanted to know what they were doing, lurking in a cemetery

My salt scarves: white table salt Carreves, grey fleur de sel Apres le Deluge and pink Himalayan salt Etude Pour Une Parure de Gala.
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This Après le déluge is very special!

Another "spiritual" one today - Arbre du vent. This design is absolutely gorgeous and the artist actually has a long PDF describing the meaning behind everything. it's really worth a read.

https://monetlugo.com/hermès --> click About the artwork at the bottom for the pdf

Hermès' scarf description is the following:
L’Arbre du vent is a tribute to the Huichol people of Mexico’s western Sierra Madre – also known as the Wixáritari – and their polytheistic religion, worshipping the divinity inherent in every aspect of the natural world. At its centre, the scarf depicts the eye of god, the protector, surrounded by the four elements, marking the four corners of the Huichol world: Mother Water, the origin of life, Tatei Haramara; Earth, the soul of the world, Tatei Yurianaka, with two hummingbirds fluttering above, symbolising the souls of traditional shamans; Grandfather Fire, Tatehuari, and Air, Kieiri, the Wind Tree. Mexican artist Montserrat Gonzalez-Lugo has taken inspiration from traditional bead embroideries and threaded wool pictures to depict the essence of Huichol spirituality.

I unfortunately only have a pixly small image saved of my colorway


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A real autumn scarf, blydia, I bought mine inspired by your photographs of it - and also because i loved the story behind it.

Toys in an attic can evoke both sentimental memories of the golden days of childhood or perhaps feelings of abandonment and sorrow. Tales have also been written in which toys—especially dolls—are full of evil intent and downright creepiness. (The phrase can also colloquially mean someone who’s sanity is in question, but that’s for another day). We live in an historical building in New Orleans, originally founded as a girls' asylum and orphanage and subsequently purchased by Ann Rice, the author of the Vampire Lestat books and the trilogy The Witches of Mayfair set in her hometown of New Orleans. Rice restored the building with period décor and furnishings, but she kept the chapel intact, using it to house her extensive collections of dolls, miniatures and religious artifacts. St Elizabeth’s was not only her home but also a gallery (see photos).

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St. Elizabeth's was divided into 21 condo units in 2003. Ours is on the top two floors of the left-facing tower. It is rich in associations for the city, and very much associated with Ann Rice and her vampires, witches and ghosts. Events were held there and tours were offered to the public so many people visited the doll museum/chapel. For today's theme, I am wearing Zabavushka, which celebrates the famous Russian toy museum, showing the corner full of nesting dolls:
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I am sure a former orphanage has many scary stories to tell... but now it will also be filled with happier memories. And what a coincidence, I love this design and just found one, in this colourway - hope to receive it tomorrow, and already planned to wear it with exactly the same colour as you are in this photograph. A (scary?) case of transatlantic telepathy? I am looking forward even more to mine...

Many cultures saw Ghost Riders in the Sky not only in the stars, but also much closer to home in our own Moon. What we call the Man in the Moon has been seen as Cain the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. Also, seen in various cultures are a woodcutter caught working on the Sabbath and banished to the Moon, a sheep-thief, a boy gathering sticks, a woman wearing jewelry, and in Japanese mythology, there is a tribe of human-like spiritual beings living on the Moon.

Here are some examples of the pareidolic images (looks like it's there, but it really isn't) seen on the Moon. (Credit to Wikipedia)

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My favorite is the second image above of a rabbit. When Apollo 11 was going to the Moon in 1969, the astronauts were alerted by NASA to be on the lookout for the rabbit.

Here is the transcript.

"NASA: Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, is one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-O has been living there for 4,000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.

"Astronaut Michael Collins: Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl."

=========================
More recently, Hermes designer Dimitri Rybaltchenko gives us a pareidolic image (or is it really there??) of Pegasus in the Moon. The Story Behind reads:

"As though revealing the hidden face of the Moon, the scarf is divided between shadow and light. A crescent showered in stars borders a wide disk upon which the powerful body of the winged horse, Pegasus, appears - a divine creature with a disheveled mane."

Here is Gris/Blanc version of this Ghostly image in Clair de Lune.

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My SOTD is Clair de Lune, with the mythical Pegasus as my Ghost Rider in the Sky. I'm using the rando knot from @blydia and wearing my (Man in the) Moonstone pendant.

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yes, those men in the moon... love this sky blue CW!

The ghostly owl on its night hunt… alright I just wanted to wear my new owl earrings and I decided that I need a scarf with owls to go with it!

La Danse des Amazones:

Ophelia the maroon owl
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Othello the golden owl
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(Yea I was a literature major and I do so like Shakespeare... )

In the end, Ophelia went out with me cause I decided on a maroon top with a terracotta cardigan.
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very pretty owls!

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You can wear any colour, Awillow! Lovely!

SOTD Le Mors a la Conétable CSGM

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More beautiful blues... fabulous, Croisette!

 

[Agrume]

Snausages inspired me to wear my M&M today. And this evening, I wanted to practise blydia's rando knot, with Les artisans, scary to me - motorcyclists are good for real nightmares, certainly for neurologists.

 

[blydia]

Virgin outing scarf. I have worn my green several times now but not this guy yet. Ummmm yeah love it! At least I have the satisfaction that indeed I should have bought it a year ago lol. ( wait is it a year and half ago this came out now??) I was forever hesitant to wear these bc I thought they were just too gorgeous to wear
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that hem is delicious

 

[blydia]

Snausages inspired me to wear my M&M today. And this evening, I wanted to practise blydia's rando knot, with Les artisans, scary to me - motorcyclists are good for real nightmares, certainly for neurologists.

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amazing rando and yeah I can imagine about the bikes, sure can get nasty and impossible to fix!!