Scarves Scarf of the Day 2022 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

[Lellabelle]

Amazing hosting this week @Redbirdhermes and such creativity from everyone! Who would have thought there would be so many fabulous connections to be made? Scarf magic, once again.

A little bit of a humourous spin from me today, as we round out the week. Kyle Hagen is a self-taught Seattle-based digital artist who creates whimsical alternative Star Wars prints. Darth Vader drinking tea in a meadow? Boba Fett knitting? Storm Troopers on a bicycle made for two? Wonderful! You can find his work online, or in his Etsy shop. For clarity: I have no affiliation with Kyle - his prints were a highlight of a recent visit to Fremont, Seattle, and I thought some here might enjoy!

My contribution for the day is Kyle‘s C3P0 lounging in a meadow, paired with my only scarf to feature small flowers: Premier Chant.


The wolf is often used as a symbol, or as the dark protagonist, in fantasy stories.
For yesterday’s “revenge of the 6th”, a leather and PDS combo for Sith Lord Vader. You can’t see it in this pic, but my shirt was from Laguna Seca, so there’s a racing connection, too (Anakin was a talented podracer). With an additional link back to @Redbirdhermes post earlier about aeronautical engineering; young Anakin Skywalker built his own podracer at age nine, and used it to secure his freedom from slavery with his race victory.

Thanks for a fun week!

 

[Redbirdhermes]

What is Star Wars but Grand Intergalactic Theater? I am closing out the week with Grand Theatre Nouveau-- a doff of the hat to the fabulous creative minds and artists who brought this amazing and beloved story to life for so many millions of fans and viewers. The love of story-telling and drama is as old as humanity itself. As the Bard said, "All the world's a stage" and Star Wars shows not just this world, but many, many more...
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Thank you so much for your kind words, LKB. One of the reasons people can relate to Star Wars is that the stories are fundamentally about people and their struggles in life. You look fantastic in Grand Theatre Nouveau. Yes, it is amazing that the stories are continuing to be told so many years after the first Star Wars movie.

It has been a delightful week, @Redbirdhermes! Love your scarf mistressing and look forward to your next turn at the silken wheel!

On my way home today, I picked up Space Derby from my maildrop. But it's late and I look decidedly alien now with a relaxing face mask on

So a much more normal pic: SOTD was Faubourg by Night with its fractured view of reality - perhaps as we leap into hyperspace?
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You look amazing, xincinsin. Thank you for your support this week. I had to get my Faubourg by Night after seeing yours. I adore the kaleidoscope effect.

Blending in at my local steampunk festival with FdC

Hermes scarves are for all sorts of events. Love the purple.

Amazing hosting this week @Redbirdhermes and such creativity from everyone! Who would have thought there would be so many fabulous connections to be made? Scarf magic, once again.

A little bit of a humourous spin from me today, as we round out the week. Kyle Hagen is a self-taught Seattle-based digital artist who creates whimsical alternative Star Wars prints. Darth Vader drinking tea in a meadow? Boba Fett knitting? Storm Troopers on a bicycle made for two? Wonderful! You can find his work online, or in his Etsy shop. For clarity: I have no affiliation with Kyle - his prints were a highlight of a recent visit to Fremont, Seattle, and I thought some here might enjoy!

My contribution for the day is Kyle‘s C3P0 lounging in a meadow, paired with my only scarf to feature small flowers: Premier Chant.
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The wolf is often used as a symbol, or as the dark protagonist, in fantasy stories.
For yesterday’s “revenge of the 6th”, a leather and PDS combo for Sith Lord Vader. You can’t see it in this pic, but my shirt was from Laguna Seca, so there’s a racing connection, too (Anakin was a talented podracer). With an additional link back to @Redbirdhermes post earlier about aeronautical engineering; young Anakin Skywalker built his own podracer at age nine, and used it to secure his freedom from slavery with his race victory.
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Thanks for a fun week!

This is all absolutely delightful, Lellabelle! Thank you so much for these whimsical Star Wars images. I will have to check out Kyle Hagen. Perfect scarves for these images and you look amazing as well. Glad you enjoyed the week.

 

[Julide]

This has been a fun week for me, and I hope for all of you as well. I brushed up on my Star Wars trivia, and even if you aren't familiar with the movies, I hope there were enough scarf wearing ideas to allow everyone to participate. I'm going to finish this week with a few serious thoughts, and then some tidbits that didn't fit in elsewhere. Thank you all kindly for reading and participating.

As I watched the last of the eleven Star Wars movies, I thought back to what I found to be the overriding theme. Hope is often mentioned, but I was struck by the continued failures of the Empire in spite of their overwhelming might. Why were the Rebels able to succeed in defeating the Empire? I submit to you that their success was because they were able to identify a Single Point of Failure.

The history of aviation is littered with accidents due to a single point of failure, where there were no redundant systems in place to prevent disaster. A single point of failure, purposely put in there by the designer, was responsible for the success that Luke Skywalker had in destroying the Death Star in the original Star Wars movie. The story of stealing the plans to the Death Star for Luke is told in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Apparently, the Empire did not learn from this epic failure. I rewatched The Rise of Skywalker, which is the final Star Wars movie, recently and was amazed that the Empire continued to design their star craft with a single point of failure.

(The Rebels: Hey, all we need to do is shoot at the highly vulnerable axial superlaser, and the entire planet-destroying star ship just blows up. Me (sarcastically): Wow, just wow!)

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DH is a retired aeronautical engineer, and much of his career was spent worrying about possible failure in the flight controls of the aircraft he was working on, and fixing any issues during the design process. One of the planes he helped design was the BPJ. (I'm calling it a Big Passenger Jet for here.) I remember him coming home one day and saying that hackers had succeeded in getting into the flight controls of the BPJ and there was going to be a story on the front page of a prominent US newspaper the next day. (Big Yikes!!) I asked how did the hackers obtain a BPJ? (I mean, that is a big, expensive aircraft and who would let hackers play with their airplane?) He said no, they had hacked the controls systems software that was running on a Microsoft PC. (His company sold the software for use in flight simulators, which are used for pilot training.) I said, oh, everyone knows that you can hack a PC. I was certain that the aircraft was safe, because I knew how good the people who worked on it were. It took a night of frantic work by his company's engineers, but I was absolutely correct. The story ran, and since the hack would not work on an actual airplane, the story quickly died.

An example of an aircraft accident due to a single point of failure was the crash of United Flight 232 (a DC-10) in Sioux City, Iowa in July of 1989 after debris from a catastrophic engine failure in flight severed all the hydraulic lines which were bound together at one point. Miliary aircraft specifications at the time did not allow this, however it was allowed in civilian aircraft because it was argued that they would not be shot at. This single point of failure is no longer allowed.

A more recent example is the Boeing 737 Max, which was designed to have certain flight controls depend on the reading of a single sensor, which was already known to be particularly unreliable. Furthermore, the presence of this flight control software was new for this model and was not documented for the pilots. Clearly someone who had sufficient decision-making influence should have been worrying about what could possibly go wrong here, and wasn't. This system was involved in the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 in 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2019, and all 737 Max aircraft were subsequently grounded until it could be redesigned and recertified.

Thank goodness the Empire never figured out star ship redundant design a long time ago in that galaxy far, far away. Our continued difficulties with the single point of failure issue today shows that this problem is a constant threat. In looking at the inventions on Exposition Universalis, one must hope that they are well-designed and safe.

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Moving on to a few final tidbits.

Goggles - Tusken Raiders were native inhabitants of Tatooine that had adapted to the harsh desert climate. Note the goggles, to protect the eyes from the harsh glare of the twin suns. The snow goggles on Le Regard de l'Arctique served the exact same purpose for the native Inuit peoples to protect the eyes in the harsh, icy white, arctic climate.

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Cookies - What is this that Grogu is eating? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it is a macaron. The scarf is La Patisserie Francaise.

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Goldfish - How often do we see a mention of Star Wars in unexpected places? Say, in your supermarket snack aisle? Here are Goldfish crackers with Faubourg by Night. They are pretty tasty.

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My scarf of the day is Le Regard de l'Arctique in celebration of the end of six months of snowy weather. Thank you for joining me this week in a look at Star Wars themes and our Hermes scarves. May the Force be with You!


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Simply marvelous!!This whole week has me appreciating a wider variety of designs. And now I have a burning desire to watch 11 filmsThank you for a wonderful week! I have enjoyed all of the contributions!

 

[Redbirdhermes]

Simply marvelous!!This whole week has me appreciating a wider variety of designs. And now I have a burning desire to watch 11 filmsThank you for a wonderful week! I have enjoyed all of the contributions!

I'm so happy you enjoyed this week. Thank you for your kind words.

 

[Forever Orange]

Wonderful pairing! I’ve been tempted by this scarf a few times, and always worry that it’s too much pink for me. You have changed my mind - it’s superb paired with the purple!

This week’s theme is such an excellent lesson in how to play with colour, and experiment with pairings for completely different effects. Thank you to all the creative and experienced scarfies, who are helping us to view things “through the looking glass”!

Catching up after a busy few days. I must say I quite agree with you. That week's theme was a fantastic way to look at scarves differently. Glad you got to this this beautiful scarf under a different light.

 

[Forever Orange]

I saw forever orange’s wild singapore and wanted to show the same change with the scarf based on top color. Purple top is archive and today I just threw on the orange sweater to show the change.
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sotd is Flowers of South Africa on this cold rainy day. I tried to highlight the white with my tie and my top. I actually thought of @Snausages bright green cardi so I could see if it pulled out the green in the scarf. But I own only 1 green top and it’s teal/sage Which wouldn’t work.
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I love all these looks! So versatile. Thank you for sharing!

 

[Forever Orange]

Jaguar:

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The Jaguar was your green top is jaw dropping stunning! Still beautiful with the red top, but that green contrast stopped me in my scroll!

 

[Forever Orange]

Audition call back. Thank you all for the feedback/suggestions:
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Simply gorgeous! All the color combos are stunning!

 

[CMHou]

SOTD: For a Derby Day party, I added my Musée scarf with a pink border to my hat.

 

[Maedi]

SOTD Jardin de la maharani GM.

 

[Karenska]

Today I am taking a look at three things that are part of Star Wars lore and how we might imagine them with our scarves. These are Lightsabers, Hyperspace, and Holograms.

Lightsabers
The highlight of many Star Wars movies is the lightsaber duel. This is the battle between good and evil, or in Star Wars lingo, Jedi versus Sith, or the Light Side of the Force versus the Dark Side of the Force. The nine movies forming the three Star Wars trilogies all have lightsaber duels. Here are some images from them and from Hermes:

From Left to Right, then Top to Bottom:

The Rise of Skywalker (Rey vs. Kylo Ren)
A New Hope (Darth Vader vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Return of the Jedi (Luke vs. Darth Vader)
Traite des Armes (Hermes scarf)

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A couple of my scarves with swords or sabers are Daimyo and Au Plus Dru.

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Hyperspace
I love the idea of traveling faster than the speed of light. It is what makes interplanetary travel in Star Wars possible. The top image below is the view when a starship moves into hyperspace. Below it are two scarves that evoke this image, A vos Crayons and Magic Kelly. Other scarves that come to mind include Faubourg Express, Galop Chromatique, and L'Effet Domino.

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Holograms
The blue 3D holograms were how messages were sent a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

We all have the first Star Wars movie we ever saw, and it can vary by how old we are. For me, it was the original Star Wars in 1977. I was fascinated, along with Luke, by the blue hologram of the beautiful woman with her desperate plea. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

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Who was she, and what trouble was she in? It wasn't until 39 years later when Rogue One was released that we actually see Princess Leia putting the message into the R2-D2 droid.

I was researching holograms in an attempt to find an Hermes scarf with this theme, when I came across these instructions to turn your cellphone into a hologram. I thought this was pretty cool, so here is the link.

Cellphone Hologram

And, here are some holographic images that you can play on your cellphone.

Holographic Images

I hope someone here gives this a try. I wasn't quite nerdy enough to do it myself. In any case, here is my choice of scarf for replicating the blue Star Wars hologram. Pani la Shar Pawnee blue dip-dye. You may have others.

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My scarf of the day is Pani la Shar Pawnee Dip-Dye Triangle.

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Happy Mother’s Day to All. I wish you all love today, and always. Thank you for being the wonderful mothers, the guiding lights, and the safe havens you are for your precious children.

Another great host post, RBH. And definitely wow-worthy examples. Thank you for hosting a cosmically delightful week of Star Wars and H. Unfortunately, the week took me rather than the other way around, so I’m behind (again) and I was only able to participate sporadically, but I loved how you “captained” our silky starship! Your SW erudition and knowledge are quite impressive.
Le Premier Chant has some celestial elements:
Le Monde Est Vaste:

And Philippe Ledoux’s iconic Cosmos:

Your posts and contributions made Bowie’s “Starman” pop into my head, the Top of the Pops version, which is my favorite, so I’ll include it here for everyone.

 

[Karenska]

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Gorgeous, springy and elegant!

 

[Karenska]

I'm going to add on to @Redbirdhermes' topic of the day: lightsabers. But first, a trip to a neighbour and more nerdlore.

I walked over to the Lucasfilm building in Singapore today. It's a couple of stones' throw from my office. The shape of The Sandcrawler really does resemble the Jawas' vehicle in A New Hope.
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It used to have a Yoda fountain in its surrounding garden.
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But today, I found out that during the pandemic, Lucasfilm sold the building and, with the change in ownership, Yoda too has departed. Here are pics of his empty dais, and the lush greenery which surrounds the building and grows verdant in the central courtyard.
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When we think of the sounds of Star Wars, what comes to mind is the soundtrack music of John Williams. A lesser known hero is Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt who created many of the ambient noises or specific sounds we associate with Star Wars: the drone of the Star Destroyer as it relentlessly pursues the Blockade Runner in the opening sequence, the harsh mechanical breathing that identifies Darth Vader, R2D2's chirps and melodic notes, and of course the thrum of the light sabre as it activates.

Have you ever noticed the many colours of the light sabres? I have a pair of dangly earrings made for me featuring two Lego light sabres which I wear with my little Lego Darth Vader converted into a pendant
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And the scarf which reminds me of light sabres?
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Otherwise known as Swinging Silk!
Worn today with my Death Star Tshirt.
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What a delightful post, Xincinsin!

 

[Cookiefiend]

Good morning sweet Scarfies, and I wish you all a very happy Mother’s Day!

This week will be a beautiful week, because it’s about flowers. <sigh>



May 8th - The Language of Flowers - Let’s delve into floriography with our floral and garden beauties

As every flower lover knows; flowers have meaning, and are a lovely representation of our human lives - they are planted, they grow, they bud and then bloom, and, well - you know the rest.

I’m going to start with Flamingo Party - two beautiful Flamingos seem to be in love, their necks twined into a heart. Flowers, fruits, and leaves create a lush floral border, filled with tropical beauty.



Hibiscus - Delicate beauty

Plumeria or Frangipani - can symbolize new life and new beginnings, springtime charm and beauty



Orange blossoms - innocence, eternal love, marriage and fruitfulness





So many of our scarves have flowers on them, each of those flowers has a story or a meaning. Let’s try to decipher them!

 

[Karenska]

Good morning sweet Scarfies, and I wish you all a very happy Mother’s Day!

This week will be a beautiful week, because it’s about flowers. <sigh>

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May 8th - The Language of Flowers - Let’s delve into floriography with our floral and garden beauties

As every flower lover knows; flowers have meaning, and are a lovely representation of our human lives - they are planted, they grow, they bud and then bloom, and, well - you know the rest.

I’m going to start with Flamingo Party - two beautiful Flamingos seem to be in love, their necks twined into a heart. Flowers, fruits, and leaves create a lush floral border, filled with tropical beauty.

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Hibiscus - Delicate beauty
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Plumeria or Frangipani - can symbolize new life and new beginnings, springtime charm and beauty

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Orange blossoms - innocence, eternal love, marriage and fruitfulness

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So many of our scarves have flowers on them, each of those flowers has a story or a meaning. Let’s try to decipher them!

Beautiful intro, Cookie, and lovely examples. Happy Mother’s Day! Before experiencing the extraordinary artistic breadth and depth of H designs (so many of which contain floral design elements), when I would think of silk scarves, inevitably an image of a scarf with beautifully rendered flowers would appear in my mind as the quintessential accessory for stylish women. Well, it is!
Two floral gavs:

Some spectacular tulips in Washington Park - the Albany Tulip Fest:


SOTD yesterday - Legende Kuna Peuple de Panama: