@Coco2606 why get a double face when you’ve created one of your own - the pairing is a delight!Resolution number 3: shop in my collection.
Scarves always have a special reason to appeal to me. I may have a list of criteria, but there are still many temptations... For example, this year I'm going for Costume de fête and the little beads on the edge... My "Arbre du vent" will help me wait or resist!
Another delight is Le jardin des peintres. I like several colours but I'll have to try them. For the blue and pink, "Plumes en fête" and "Index palmarum" will do for today
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I’ve often said everyone would feel better about themselves and f only we saw ourselves through other people’s eyes - you’re stunning @millivanilli As for self-care… I’ve been more affected by re-entry to normalcy vs covid isolation - I’ve got to snap back into things and you have many comrades in arms in that regard.Hello my dear scarf friends! I am thrilled by the great photos and information and enjoy the thread now already to the fullest.
Unfortunately, I was sick the last few days and have already missed the connection a little, but could start today with my color scheme problem scarves.
I don't have that many grand scarves (I'm terribly embarrassed, but for the life of me I can't remember it CGSM GSCM GSCM....) - And compared to you, of course, ridiculously few 90 cm scarves. I think the silk scarves suit me better because they have a bit of a sheen to them, the muted one of the CSGM GSCM - you know what I mean - doesn't suit me as well in my opinion.
So for now. let's have a look at the grand carres I own and the problems I have with some of them.
Apologies for the pictures, I'm not feeling particularly well yet, and I'm pretty unphotogenic unfortunately. AND I gained a lot of weight. I personally think, that I need a slimmer face to make the scarves look good, so some pictures are from those glory times when I ate properly and went to the gym on a regular basis......
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Let's start with the scarf I've been dying to get: Large Triangle Sweet dreams in shades of green. I find it a little bit "dull" on me, althoug I really LOVE the desing and am a true Baijtlik- fan:
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Let's move on to my problem scarf: Mytiques Phoenix in orange / blue.
The scarf has sentimental value for me. I bought it when I realized that I need to get away from certain people to be happy. So the scarf was an anticipated symbol of success, so to speak - and I wear it with pride today. The Birkin, which I requested at the same time, I still do not have, however.
That the colors do not look good on me I was aware at the time, but unfortunately not how bad they look..... I combine the scarf with earrings that were dirt cheap (8 euros?), but match the design perfectly - hopefully they never break
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let's move on to Sweat Dream men's scarf- I wear it really seldom although I fought for it SO hard at the boutique. Perhaps that memory is attached to the scarf.. Sadly because I utterly love the design. And the typo "sweat dreams" Lord, I had to sweat for it... I took the foto today, you can clearly see that I am still sick and gained a ton! I am sorry for the ugly pic
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Now let's have a look at my two most loved carres in big sizes:
Firstly: Fantasie indiennes. Initially bough to hang it on the wall but I loved it so much, that I decided to wear it. It came to me to Stockholm, to Rome, to Nizza, to Paris, to Vienna, to Triest and literally everywhere. That said I am still fighting with the yellow parts in it.
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and the last one in my small collection of bigger formats: la danse des Amazones. I figured out that the orange blue colorscheme of my Phoenix doesn't work so good for me, so I searched for a design I liked in red- tones. Initially I wanted to purchase Bingata, but didn't like it on me and fell in love with the little wise owl on it. Sadly I pulled a string at exactly that element of the carre with my morganite ring I purchased to wear it together with the scarf.
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Thanks for reading my long long post!!!
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But… I simply must know more about your fluffy white friend!
And I’m envious of your Sweet Sweat GT! It has proven elusive and though friends in Canada have offered to enable me I fear choosing a colorway that makes me go ‘hmmmm’. But I’ve got 2 of the lens 100s so I don’t feel too sorry for myself. I really wanted the bright that you have but alas it didn’t agree with my coloring. The two I have (the dark blue, and the red/teal) both came via friends and the colors make me happy when I wear them
The colorway I covet! @Karenska its impossible to not smile when seeing thisGorgeous, leechiyong. I love this Creamsicle colorway. We are sisters - mine’s like LifeSavers. Archive shot.
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Happy New Year Scarfies! Thank you for the articulate posts of resolutions and lessons learned on our little thread and saluting all our current and past scarves mistresses for keeping our thread lively and interesting!
As my silk collection has reached a point of no more space in the tansu, I am definitely in that period of life of editing to as few scarves and shawls as possible. Last season I received only one very special silk and it was more expensive being a marble silk. I truly thought I could stay on my 90 ban forever but broke that resolution since the process of the marble silk and its design captured my heart.
So, to aid in this process, I go through my edits with the hope that rehoming them so that these beautiful scarves can be worn and appreciated by others as well as my letting go of things that I just can’t seem to wear due to current lifestyle changes. There are a number of designs that still take my breath away just looking at them, but the majority seem to be languishing in their boxes or shelves. that is the bigger battle for my heart.
Wearing what I have is my simple resolution as well as letting go. The new year is a time to refresh, renew and to pare down my life in general! I’m excited to leap into these goals immediately! Wishing you all great success, good health and scarf happiness for 2023!
Fouets et Badines Marble silk worn bandelero style
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@lanit these are both fabulous! Love the men’s 100, and compared to the women’s section they’re a steal!For me, the Men’s collection are very good investment pueces and I love the 100 size format. I’ve yet to edit a Men’s scarf from the tansu.
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Ok I love this knot @Thelittlefoxes and would love to know how you games the slippery swath of silk!Today I tried to live up to my resolution to wear my silk carrés more often and went for my most difficult one: Tapis Persans 140 silk with lots of slippery fabric. The knot is not terribly exciting but at least I managed to wrangle it in place and make it stay there.
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Wow so many beautiful posts since late last night! I am heading out to do errands in my personal favorite Tresors d'un Artiste. I have collected two of this design (second one below mod shot) and thought of culling to one but as was pointed out with @Redbirdhermes' two very different cws, each has its place in my "Scarfdrobe"-- a wonderful new portmanteau word coined by a darling scarfie friend!
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Love the knot @LKBNOLA and tthe colorways of Tresors really are so different - I understand some folks’ reluctance for multiples but truly these scarves are quite discreet. And love the puddytats!Thank you @bunnycat!
Occupational hazard for a Scarf Mistress @xincinsin -- happy reconnoitering!
Me too, @leechiyong and I live by the Bayou so....
It is gorgeous on you @bunnycat and I am happy to be your twin and sister and even though I have dogs and not cats, I have more cat scarves because they are so beautiful, including Le Chat Carre [gulp]...
It would be an interesting theme to consider other elements of scarf design besides color @Lellabelle-- scale, contrast, balance etc. I know I have learned a lot from my mistakes-- not every blue scarf is a winner and sometimes the most "left field" designs work like a charm. Sometimes it is magic and defies analysis and sometimes we can figure it out and work with it!
Solidarity post here (with over the top earrings and a sassy cat tongue front and center!)
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This is such a lovely, wise and generous post @Cookiefiend. Thank you for your thoughts and encouragement to us all
Hahaha. Jinx. I owe you a coke @Redbirdhermes...
Ok now I long for a CCP week! Lovely choices and evolution @RedbirdhermesThank you, Snausages. Your comment got me to thinking, and please allow me to expand on it. You are referring to the new Le Carnaval des Animaux, CW09, which I think of as primarily a medium to dark blue and green scarf which does work well with my brown and taupe tops.
This past year I rehomed several brown and taupe scarves, because wearing them was more ‘I should’ than ‘I feel good’. Those that went included a brown Trophees de Venise, a brown Casse Noisette and a taupe L'Instruction du Roy. I like wearing brown tops, but apparently that doesn't necessarily extend to my scarves. However, never say never, as I absolutely adore my brown Jardins d'Hiver. That scarf is staying.
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I've already replaced the Trophees de Venise with a green colorway, and while the Casse Noisette has not been replaced, I do like the design and will wait for a better colorway.
My SOTD is my replacement Trophees de Venise, after the brown scarf left through the CCP. I'm wearing my medium brown sweater today. I like this pretty scarf.
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Do share what you’re coming home with @xincinsinDear scarfies, my resolve is being tested. Yours truly flew to Bangkok today. I brought only one scarf with me as this is not a scarf-friendly trip. I valiantly walked past the H at Changi Airport Terminal 2 and pretended that I didn't see it. Then I checked into my Bangkok hotel, looked out of my 17th Floor hotel room ... And I spy the H boutique across the road (face-palm).

I recall visiting a boutique while vacationing and was vacillating over scarves and mused out loud ‘I already have a lot of blue scarves’ to which the SA replied ‘that tells me you like blue’. The heart wants what the heart wants @bunnycat and I’m sure Miss Snickers approvesI would say "stay strong" but I'd be lying as I would not be able to contain myself and go in for a "look see"...
A minor resolution in the last year or so was that I "had enough" cat themed scarves so I tried and tried to give Lazy Leopardesses a miss since I have several (3) Jaguar Quetzal scarves, as well as Ardmore Artists, Tigre Royal and several Dallet. Surely that was enough???
I am glad to have finally given in to this scarf because it is indeed very easy to wear, and I don't think it interferes with my others. But I really am fairly complete in the cat scarf department now. I did successfully avoid the Chat Carre' as every one I tried on was too pastel, and it was very prominent on the borders and so a no go for me. I am going to look at the new JL stamped b/c...Jungle Love....and I think it will be a very unique take on the JL design if the colors suit me. (Thanks a lot @LKBNOLA for the mod shot of your CW, and @Snausages for the boutique pics that sealed the deal on the red and bronze CW being a possibility for me.
) After this, if I start down the Cat Print Path again (officially CPP now, not to be confused with CCP) you can all collectively
me.
My lovely Lazy Leopardesses from yesterday.
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Love these brights @Teaforparrots as well as the lovely wreath!
Love these colors @laurenad and relate to the ‘so-and-so said it looks good on me’ purchase decision. Thank heavens for the CCP!Loving this week! My favorite design - cosmographia Universalis - was in hardcore ccp this year! I had three 90 silks and was very unhappy with two of them. Over the course of the year I admitted to myself that I purchased the white/pink/green colorway because it was available online and because my best friend said she thought it was pretty. I purchased the popular lilac, blue and pink colorway because of just that - popularity! I remembered how at the time, I saw the warm coral colorway and a little voice whispered - this would look best on you. But I ignored it in favor of going along with the masses and ease of purchase! I am proud of correcting that this year, offloading the two silks that weren’t working, and treated myself to this little beauty. Finally, the cosmographia that fits best with me!
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