Scarves Scarf of The Day 2023- Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

[bunnycat]

A new year's resolution is to wear more light colors with my scarves. I tend to wear a lot of dark (navy being my preference). I noticed in 2022 that some of the scarves I was drawn to were not compatible with those wardrobe habits and if I just budge a bit on that, I would find those scarves more wearable. Looking at you Orange Lanternes! I also did a little "Color Correction Program" and opted in the end to add the navy Lanternes (some habits really don't die!). Here's to sticking to '23 resolutions and trying out new colors and maybe even learning to appreciate them!

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I like this resolution a lot! Perhaps I could put this in my list as a low key resolution I might stand a chance with. "Wear less black in winter..."

 

[MAGJES]

Best wishes for 2023!
My resolutions...
Low by (which means only one square for Easter, one for my birthday, one for my holiday and one for Christmas + two bonuses) so 6 in all - my lucky number- grails AND new collections included.
So brave.
I'm counting on your advice to select the squares whose colours suit me best and maybe (I say maybe) I'll let one or the other join a new home.
To start the year well, here is Objets de curiosité which goes with everything

Good morning Scarflandia and Happy New Year to everyone!

I am sort of awake, and officially ready to start up with our kick off to 2023 now that we have kicked 2022 out the door. Let's start this year off right, with a theme we as scarfies probably spend a fair chunk of time contemplating.

01 Jan 2023- New Year Resolutions. Scarves for the CCP? (Color Correction Program Copyright @LKBNOLA) Learn new knots? Hunt a grail? Buy more blue scarves? Practice One in One Out theory?

At New Year, it is traditional among many people to take some vows of resolution for the New Year. For myself, I tend to go with the "best laid plans" theory and just don't bother. But this year (or this week at least) I am going to try to be strong. You might say my resolution is to turn over a new leaf if the scarf department. That is at least something I feel I have a hope of adhering to. Diets? Nope. Eat less chocolate? You're kitten me, right? Be less sarcastic at home? Good luck....

So this is my official Segue Sunday post as well as the official start to 2023.

Last week, you may recall I went a little in the scarf purchasing department during 2022. Let me show you my 2 separate pictures together.


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Ok, now we see I have a problem, Houston. So my official New Years resolution is to cut my purchasing down a few notches. I mean, I am already not doing so well here with the new season scarves, but I digress. Perhaps I should start with something easier like a color correction program candidate, or buy fewer pink scarves.

In actuality, I did practice a one in and one out on the pocket squares during 2022 and hope to continue this practice. I bought exactly 1 pocket square in 2022, and one went to a new home! It even got a good home with a fellow tpfer so I know it is in GOOD HANDS!


After seeing a mod shot by our fair @LKBNOLA I could not pass up Peinture Fraiche with the striped hem! So that was my one in for 2022. I'd like to apply that idea a little more heavily in 2023.

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Happy 2023 from Snickers and me! Bring on your New Year's scarf resolutions (even if they only last for the week!) and delight us with pics of your CCP possibilities and "how many more blue/purple/neutral scarves does one need?" conundrums.

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I adore your little Snickers. She brings back fond memories of our little "Rosie" that we loved for 20yrs. Twins born in different decades!
Love your 2022 additions! We are twins on a few and will have to admit that I am very jelly of your ability to snag that Sweet Dreams!

 

[MAGJES]

Thank you, @Living.la.vida.fifi , for a wonderful week of reviewing our favorite purchases of 2022 and helping us to go out of 2022 in style. Thank you, @bunnycat , for starting us off this year with our New Year’s scarf resolutions.

When I first began collecting Hermès scarves, my goal was to have enough scarves to cover the Scarf of the Day themes. The pandemic helped by curtailing many of my other activities, and I achieved that initial goal in less than three years. During 2022 I realized that there were certain designs and colors that I simply didn’t wear, so I began selling a few of my scarves last year.

My goal for 2023 is to sell more scarves than I acquire. FedEx inadvertently helped my cause yesterday by arriving on the last day of 2022 with four scarves from the new season. By my H accounting that makes them 2022 scarf acquisitions, rather than 2023. So, I’m starting with a clean slate as of today, with no 2023 acquisitions yet.

Still, let’s begin this brand new year with a brand new scarf. Le Carnaval des Animaux, CW09 in bleu jean/vert/beige, is darker than many of the S/S 2023 colorways, and goes well with the colors in my winter clothing wardrobe.

Bias fold with dark green top.

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The knot I learned from @Agrume last year with pale tan top. This is my necklace of Fijian pearls.

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Asymmetric fold with brown sweater. This top is the same color as the scarf hem.

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Light gray sweater with cowboy knot. Tahitian pearls with blue overtones. One advantage of winter where I live is that total snow cover acts like a giant white lightbox, making my pearls look their very best.

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Golden brown top with a simple triangle drape because I wanted to show the elephant.

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The contrast beige hem is a sweet surprise on this colorway!

 

[MAGJES]

Early AM - My scarf resolution - NO pink scarves purchases in 2023!

By mid-afternoon.......I have already abandoned my pledge.....shamelessly and with much enthusiasm.....ordered (2).


Here's wishing a Happy New Year from MAGJES & Family to the sweet scarf loving ladies on tpf!

 

[GloWW0rM]

Thanks for the warm welcome into the 2023 scarf universe @bunnycat and snickers! Some great themes to look forward to

In January 2022 when my youngest child was not yet a year old and I had just returned to work I decided I would treat myself to my first H shawl and walked out of the boutique with En Attendant Ulysse, which I had seen online and had fallen in love with.

People talk about the slippery Orange slope but, for me, it was complete free fall from then on. In 2022 I went from 0 Hermès silks to 4 CSGMs, 1 GT, 8 scarves in the 90 format, 2x 70s and 1 gavroche = 16 scarves

Even though I have 6 S/S 23 scarves on wishlist, my resolution this year is to exercise (some?) restraint and not buy them all. I’d like to slow down so that I may enjoy my purchases more and build my collection more gradually. The price increases that have hit the UK should make that easier as I’m having a hard time justifying more than one CSGM a year going forward.

However I’d still like to add a 140 silk twill and maybe another 70. I then need to figure out how to find some of the Alice Shirley designs I missed out on.

Resolution #2 is to find more time to play around with my scarves and try out different knots.

Looking forward to getting to know you all more and seeing more of your beautiful scarves in 2023!

 

[Cookiefiend]

Good morning Scarflandia and Happy New Year to everyone!

I am sort of awake, and officially ready to start up with our kick off to 2023 now that we have kicked 2022 out the door. Let's start this year off right, with a theme we as scarfies probably spend a fair chunk of time contemplating.

01 Jan 2023- New Year Resolutions. Scarves for the CCP? (Color Correction Program Copyright @LKBNOLA) Learn new knots? Hunt a grail? Buy more blue scarves? Practice One in One Out theory?

At New Year, it is traditional among many people to take some vows of resolution for the New Year. For myself, I tend to go with the "best laid plans" theory and just don't bother. But this year (or this week at least) I am going to try to be strong. You might say my resolution is to turn over a new leaf if the scarf department. That is at least something I feel I have a hope of adhering to. Diets? Nope. Eat less chocolate? You're kitten me, right? Be less sarcastic at home? Good luck....

So this is my official Segue Sunday post as well as the official start to 2023.

Last week, you may recall I went a little in the scarf purchasing department during 2022. Let me show you my 2 separate pictures together.


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Ok, now we see I have a problem, Houston. So my official New Years resolution is to cut my purchasing down a few notches. I mean, I am already not doing so well here with the new season scarves, but I digress. Perhaps I should start with something easier like a color correction program candidate, or buy fewer pink scarves.

In actuality, I did practice a one in and one out on the pocket squares during 2022 and hope to continue this practice. I bought exactly 1 pocket square in 2022, and one went to a new home! It even got a good home with a fellow tpfer so I know it is in GOOD HANDS!


After seeing a mod shot by our fair @LKBNOLA I could not pass up Peinture Fraiche with the striped hem! So that was my one in for 2022. I'd like to apply that idea a little more heavily in 2023.

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Happy 2023 from Snickers and me! Bring on your New Year's scarf resolutions (even if they only last for the week!) and delight us with pics of your CCP possibilities and "how many more blue/purple/neutral scarves does one need?" conundrums.

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Happy New Year Bunny and Snickers!
I haven’t set any resolutions… but I do have a couple goals:
1) Sell the scarves that aren’t 100% favorites.
2) To attempt to pry my Sales Googles off…. This will be difficult - they’re so much a part of me! I find a good bargoon (copyright @Snausages) practically irresistible, and if it’s pink too - well - all bets are off.
3) Stop buying pink scarves…

It‘s January 1st, and I haven’t bought a scarf in 21 days!

Best wishes for 2023!
My resolutions...
Low by (which means only one square for Easter, one for my birthday, one for my holiday and one for Christmas + two bonuses) so 6 in all - my lucky number- grails AND new collections included.
So brave.
I'm counting on your advice to select the squares whose colours suit me best and maybe (I say maybe) I'll let one or the other join a new home.
To start the year well, here is Objets de curiosité which goes with everything View attachment 5681438

Ohmigoodness - this is a gorgeous look!

Happy New Year to all of you lovely Scarfies!

My resolutions are as follows:

1) To try to actually wear my scarves more often! As I am just about permanently stuck in bed, I tend to slob around in pyjamas all day. I must try to put on something nice on my top half, plus some earrings, and get out one of my gorgeous scarves or shawls and wear it! What’s the point in owning these lovelies if I don’t wear them. Even if it is just for a couple of hours?

2) Follow this year’s thread! I kept up with the threads a few years ago, but have dropped off for the last couple. This moves so fast and I find it difficult to keep up. But I will try because you are such a lovely community on here.

And this is a photo of Jardin de la Maharani from yesterday:

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So lovely to see you HH, and we all look forward to seeing you more often!

Thank you, @Living.la.vida.fifi , for a wonderful week of reviewing our favorite purchases of 2022 and helping us to go out of 2022 in style. Thank you, @bunnycat , for starting us off this year with our New Year’s scarf resolutions.

When I first began collecting Hermès scarves, my goal was to have enough scarves to cover the Scarf of the Day themes. The pandemic helped by curtailing many of my other activities, and I achieved that initial goal in less than three years. During 2022 I realized that there were certain designs and colors that I simply didn’t wear, so I began selling a few of my scarves last year.

My goal for 2023 is to sell more scarves than I acquire. FedEx inadvertently helped my cause yesterday by arriving on the last day of 2022 with four scarves from the new season. By my H accounting that makes them 2022 scarf acquisitions, rather than 2023. So, I’m starting with a clean slate as of today, with no 2023 acquisitions yet.

Still, let’s begin this brand new year with a brand new scarf. Le Carnaval des Animaux, CW09 in bleu jean/vert/beige, is darker than many of the S/S 2023 colorways, and goes well with the colors in my winter clothing wardrobe.

Bias fold with dark green top.

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The knot I learned from @Agrume last year with pale tan top. This is my necklace of Fijian pearls.

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Asymmetric fold with brown sweater. This top is the same color as the scarf hem.

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Light gray sweater with cowboy knot. Tahitian pearls with blue overtones. One advantage of winter where I live is that total snow cover acts like a giant white lightbox, making my pearls look their very best.

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Golden brown top with a simple triangle drape because I wanted to show the elephant.

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Holy guacamole - outstanding - It goes with everything!

A new year's resolution is to wear more light colors with my scarves. I tend to wear a lot of dark (navy being my preference). I noticed in 2022 that some of the scarves I was drawn to were not compatible with those wardrobe habits and if I just budge a bit on that, I would find those scarves more wearable. Looking at you Orange Lanternes! I also did a little "Color Correction Program" and opted in the end to add the navy Lanternes (some habits really don't die!). Here's to sticking to '23 resolutions and trying out new colors and maybe even learning to appreciate them!

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Ooooo the red with your cream sweater is so beautiful! ❤️

 

[Nomad]

Beautiful rbh! I have a different CW on order, and hope it works out because I love this design.


Low being under 25 I guess that is a win. Ot if you think of it as less than 2 scarves per month maybe???


I'm aiming for half this time. Gonna try some new "techniques" this year.

Yeah I was realizing I averaged 3 a month haha. And that is WAY too much…after the fact haha

 

[LKBNOLA]

Good morning Scarflandia and Happy New Year to everyone!

I am sort of awake, and officially ready to start up with our kick off to 2023 now that we have kicked 2022 out the door. Let's start this year off right, with a theme we as scarfies probably spend a fair chunk of time contemplating.

01 Jan 2023- New Year Resolutions. Scarves for the CCP? (Color Correction Program Copyright @LKBNOLA) Learn new knots? Hunt a grail? Buy more blue scarves? Practice One in One Out theory?

At New Year, it is traditional among many people to take some vows of resolution for the New Year. For myself, I tend to go with the "best laid plans" theory and just don't bother. But this year (or this week at least) I am going to try to be strong. You might say my resolution is to turn over a new leaf if the scarf department. That is at least something I feel I have a hope of adhering to. Diets? Nope. Eat less chocolate? You're kitten me, right? Be less sarcastic at home? Good luck....

So this is my official Segue Sunday post as well as the official start to 2023.

Last week, you may recall I went a little in the scarf purchasing department during 2022. Let me show you my 2 separate pictures together.


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Ok, now we see I have a problem, Houston. So my official New Years resolution is to cut my purchasing down a few notches. I mean, I am already not doing so well here with the new season scarves, but I digress. Perhaps I should start with something easier like a color correction program candidate, or buy fewer pink scarves.

In actuality, I did practice a one in and one out on the pocket squares during 2022 and hope to continue this practice. I bought exactly 1 pocket square in 2022, and one went to a new home! It even got a good home with a fellow tpfer so I know it is in GOOD HANDS!


After seeing a mod shot by our fair @LKBNOLA I could not pass up Peinture Fraiche with the striped hem! So that was my one in for 2022. I'd like to apply that idea a little more heavily in 2023.

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Happy 2023 from Snickers and me! Bring on your New Year's scarf resolutions (even if they only last for the week!) and delight us with pics of your CCP possibilities and "how many more blue/purple/neutral scarves does one need?" conundrums.

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You and Snickers have distracted me completely from all my good intentions and resolutions @bunnycat! And thank you for a lovely introduction, beautiful flat lays and great New Year inspiration.

Dear all, Happy New Year all scarf lovers and wearers 2023. I declare this thread open

Thanks to @bunnycat and all the scarf mistresses past, present and future

I was very restrained (for me) in 2022 and only bought 3 H scarves. My NY resolution is to get healthier so I look and feel better in my scarves.

No one could argue with those resolutions @papertiger!

What a great thread and I'm glad I joined in time to start fresh with the new year.

New years resolution - this year I probably won't buy any new scarves, but: I have enough to be happy about the ones I have.

General NY resolutions: I am planing 12 cities in 12 months and HOPE that I'll be a) lucky and b) successfull. Will open a thread, too! Diet: as always. Beeing more patient: hell NO! I am too patient, so my resolution would be " be less patient"

Scarves for the CCP: unfortunately, I really have a few scarves that don't suit me at all in terms of colors. First and foremost is the Mythiques Phoenix scarf, which always makes me pale and colorless with its orange tones (I'm a cold winter type.....). And unfortunately also the double face c'est la fete with light blue and orange - but I can hang it on the wall

I'm looking forward to tonight when I'll look through my scarves and photograph the ones I need to think about.

Until then, happy new year to y'all!

No new scarves? Oh @millivanilli -- my heart just skipped about twenty beats. However your travels sound fascinating and I hope whatever you do we will see some scarves on site during your travels. I do love your cw of C'est la Fete but in my early days I would have been too intimidated to buy it. Your wall will be spectacularly dressed!

Best wishes for 2023!
My resolutions...
Low by (which means only one square for Easter, one for my birthday, one for my holiday and one for Christmas + two bonuses) so 6 in all - my lucky number- grails AND new collections included.
So brave.
I'm counting on your advice to select the squares whose colours suit me best and maybe (I say maybe) I'll let one or the other join a new home.
To start the year well, here is Objets de curiosité which goes with everything View attachment 5681438

There is nothing about this post I don't love @Coco2606-- your noble resolutions, of course but your adorable mod shot and your beautiful outfit were the true New Year's Scarf Happiness this morning!

I once encountered an SA who, although very friendly, kept suggesting that I buy scarves which I didn't really like because "you can frame them". I kept reminding her that I want to WEAR my scarves.

And thus, CCP and I really have to reduce the collex (I hear frantic squawking from the aviary ). This year, I resolve to be strong and not buy a scarf just because it feels odd to walk out of H empty-handed. I will buy only what I really like and what I will wear. As for CCP, as 2022 closed, I received a CCP scarf. I don't do well with most shades of brown, and you can't really see exact shades on the computer monitor, so I have mistakes I've been looking to replace a brown Rose Compass and finally found one in dark blue - much more to my taste.
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That is a beautiful CCP @xincinsin! I can no longer wear some of the neutrals I used to favor so those (and some well intended gifts) formed the core of my first CCP efforts. Later I learned the perils of buying place-holders-- mine always end up in the CCP pile! If any of your squawking birds need a new home, I'll be happy to feather a new nest...

Happy New Year to all of you lovely Scarfies!

My resolutions are as follows:

1) To try to actually wear my scarves more often! As I am just about permanently stuck in bed, I tend to slob around in pyjamas all day. I must try to put on something nice on my top half, plus some earrings, and get out one of my gorgeous scarves or shawls and wear it! What’s the point in owning these lovelies if I don’t wear them. Even if it is just for a couple of hours?

2) Follow this year’s thread! I kept up with the threads a few years ago, but have dropped off for the last couple. This moves so fast and I find it difficult to keep up. But I will try because you are such a lovely community on here.

And this is a photo of Jardin de la Maharani from yesterday:

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A stunner on you @HermesHope and I do so hope you keep your resolutions but especially the one of showing up here! I cannot express to you how amazingly helpful-- no I should amend to say *essential* your amazing blog and the series Scarf of the Moment has been to me. For a newbie collector your comprehensive entries and the colorway photos were a gift. Thank you for that and for continuing to do it! I loved your recent entries no less than the historical ones. Your Maharani and scarf ring are gorgeous!

Happy NY Scarflandia and I echo @Katharina Luise in vowing to rehome more! (As well as keeping up with this thread more even if I get woefully behind.)

I have 100+ across all formats and am challenging myself to either 1) wear each 3x this year and 2) rehome those which do not completely take my breath away, or which see the light of day fewer than 3x this year (sometimes I wear those which are a struggle more frequently and I seek to find the H magic)

I look forward to learning from your rehoming process @Snausages (and perhaps being a forever home to some?) but I look equally forward to your amazing grail hunt successes and additions each season to your fabulous collection...Let me know when you find a second and third neck so I can order some too for the 3X per scarf goal. Also I have adopted your "let it rise" strategy when a new scarf may be slow to meet expectations...and often the extra time is just what it needed...

Thank you, @Living.la.vida.fifi , for a wonderful week of reviewing our favorite purchases of 2022 and helping us to go out of 2022 in style. Thank you, @bunnycat , for starting us off this year with our New Year’s scarf resolutions.

When I first began collecting Hermès scarves, my goal was to have enough scarves to cover the Scarf of the Day themes. The pandemic helped by curtailing many of my other activities, and I achieved that initial goal in less than three years. During 2022 I realized that there were certain designs and colors that I simply didn’t wear, so I began selling a few of my scarves last year.

My goal for 2023 is to sell more scarves than I acquire. FedEx inadvertently helped my cause yesterday by arriving on the last day of 2022 with four scarves from the new season. By my H accounting that makes them 2022 scarf acquisitions, rather than 2023. So, I’m starting with a clean slate as of today, with no 2023 acquisitions yet.

Still, let’s begin this brand new year with a brand new scarf. Le Carnaval des Animaux, CW09 in bleu jean/vert/beige, is darker than many of the S/S 2023 colorways, and goes well with the colors in my winter clothing wardrobe.

Bias fold with dark green top.

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The knot I learned from @Agrume last year with pale tan top. This is my necklace of Fijian pearls.

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Asymmetric fold with brown sweater. This top is the same color as the scarf hem.

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Light gray sweater with cowboy knot. Tahitian pearls with blue overtones. One advantage of winter where I live is that total snow cover acts like a giant white lightbox, making my pearls look their very best.

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Golden brown top with a simple triangle drape because I wanted to show the elephant.

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I think you have absolutely met your pandemic goal @Redbirdhermes-- your theme contributions are wonderful and amazing. I share your collecting history to a degree in that during the pandemic I focused all the time, attention and resources that were not being expended on other things on building my collection. This past year I slowed down on 90s but was hardly restrained in other formats. One thing I think I will not sacrifice are the new season scarves. I love that process and I love planning additions to enjoy and wear. All that is to say that I love the new ones you have chosen, including this adorable scarf with lovely corners and colors and an unusual colored hem! It is a great complement to your beautiful pearls, but then so many of your silks are!

I totally agree with you, @Katharina Luise ! The 11% increase on CSGMs is quite sobering and will make the resale market more attractive for me (as if it wasn't already ). Only one CSGM a year is enough (a new one fresh from the boutique, I mean...). I will vicariously enjoy the ones you, lovely ladies, will show in your beautiful mod shots .

:LOL: @Marie-the-Mary! You were clever to insert that little caveat: one fresh one from the boutique but no limit on happy surprises you may find in the reseller market! I like that manner of thinking, myself...

A new year's resolution is to wear more light colors with my scarves. I tend to wear a lot of dark (navy being my preference). I noticed in 2022 that some of the scarves I was drawn to were not compatible with those wardrobe habits and if I just budge a bit on that, I would find those scarves more wearable. Looking at you Orange Lanternes! I also did a little "Color Correction Program" and opted in the end to add the navy Lanternes (some habits really don't die!). Here's to sticking to '23 resolutions and trying out new colors and maybe even learning to appreciate them!

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This is a great resolution @EtsyBoss. As someone who spent forty of her adult years in Manhattan, black was the default color, for sure. But I have found that a lot of scarves are far more wearable and shine to greater advantage on other color tops. Both your Lanternes look beautiful and we are twins on the marine, which is a gorgeous silk!

Thanks for the warm welcome into the 2023 scarf universe @bunnycat and snickers! Some great themes to look forward to

In January 2022 when my youngest child was not yet a year old and I had just returned to work I decided I would treat myself to my first H shawl and walked out of the boutique with En Attendant Ulysse, which I had seen online and had fallen in love with.

People talk about the slippery Orange slope but, for me, it was complete free fall from then on. In 2022 I went from 0 Hermès silks to 4 CSGMs, 1 GT, 8 scarves in the 90 format, 2x 70s and 1 gavroche = 16 scarves

Even though I have 6 S/S 23 scarves on wishlist, my resolution this year is to exercise (some?) restraint and not buy them all. I’d like to slow down so that I may enjoy my purchases more and build my collection more gradually. The price increases that have hit the UK should make that easier as I’m having a hard time justifying more than one CSGM a year going forward.

However I’d still like to add a 140 silk twill and maybe another 70. I then need to figure out how to find some of the Alice Shirley designs I missed out on.

Resolution #2 is to find more time to play around with my scarves and try out different knots.

Looking forward to getting to know you all more and seeing more of your beautiful scarves in 2023!

Very good resolutions and a fine start to our shared obsession @GloWW0rM! i think if you scratch the surface of any scarfie here, you will hear a variation on this theme... And there's no better place for inspiration on both playing with your silks and trying new knots!

 

[LKBNOLA]

Early AM - My scarf resolution - NO pink scarves purchases in 2023!

By mid-afternoon.......I have already abandoned my pledge.....shamelessly and with much enthusiasm.....ordered (2).


Here's wishing a Happy New Year from MAGJES & Family to the sweet scarf loving ladies on tpf!

This cracked me up @MAGJES! Happy New Year to you and yours!

 

[xincinsin]

I tried the one in-one out regime, but have thus far failed to make it stick

It never made it out the starting gate for me I need to start slow...

Dear Bunny, Don't feel bad. I wish I had only bought 15 scarves this year. Or any year, actually.

Average to bat for: one for each month plus one more for every high day and holiday? Now, if only Ugo, Jan, Daiske and Alice take pity on me...

Early AM - My scarf resolution - NO pink scarves purchases in 2023!

By mid-afternoon.......I have already abandoned my pledge.....shamelessly and with much enthusiasm.....ordered (2).


Here's wishing a Happy New Year from MAGJES & Family to the sweet scarf loving ladies on tpf!

Oh my! Story of my life!

It‘s January 1st, and I haven’t bought a scarf in 21 days!

My hero!

Yeah I was realizing I averaged 3 a month haha. And that is WAY too much…after the fact haha

I feel better now

 

[LKBNOLA]

I feel (at least this morning) that I have accomplished a great deal that I wanted to for my collection over the past three years. I had fun last year with new formats (140 silks and CSGM, Triangle Geant and mousselines) and I think all of those are where I want them to be. My first love is and always will be the 90 silk twill and I freely collect designs that I love whether or not I plan to give them lots of wear-- simply for the beauty and because they feel essential to a true collection. I often analogize my scarf collection to a good poetry anthology: it should have the classic, the innovative, the well-loved, that which endures and yes, even room for the occasional avant-garde or experimental pieces. For this year, I feel content that my CCP* are done and I am mostly finished with "backfilling" prior season scarves I missed. I have about a dozen designs and a few artists I would like to collect (including two unicorn grails), a few older design CSGMs as well. Other than that 2023 will be the year I assiduously search out the scarves of my birth year, as I turn 70 in October and would like 7 designs from 1953 if I can find them. So wish me luck! My New Year SOTD is the big sister to Chorus Stellarum: C'est la Fete. Happy New Year Scarflandia. Delighted to be embarking on another year of Silky Adventures.

And for @Coco2606 -- the "CCP" is just a three letter acronym I coined for a process of seeking a new and more desirable colorway of a scarf I already owned -- often because I had chosen unwisely, it no longer suited my look, wardrobe or style or simply because I saw a more beautiful one here! I put about 14 scarves into the CCP over the past few years...

 

[bunnycat]

I adore your little Snickers. She brings back fond memories of our little "Rosie" that we loved for 20yrs. Twins born in different decades!
Love your 2022 additions! We are twins on a few and will have to admit that I am very jelly of your ability to snag that Sweet Dreams!

I can hope and wish and try to plan that little St Snick will be with us a good long time. You’ll find your Sweet Dreams! I know it!

Thanks for the warm welcome into the 2023 scarf universe @bunnycat and snickers! Some great themes to look forward to

In January 2022 when my youngest child was not yet a year old and I had just returned to work I decided I would treat myself to my first H shawl and walked out of the boutique with En Attendant Ulysse, which I had seen online and had fallen in love with.

People talk about the slippery Orange slope but, for me, it was complete free fall from then on. In 2022 I went from 0 Hermès silks to 4 CSGMs, 1 GT, 8 scarves in the 90 format, 2x 70s and 1 gavroche = 16 scarves

Even though I have 6 S/S 23 scarves on wishlist, my resolution this year is to exercise (some?) restraint and not buy them all. I’d like to slow down so that I may enjoy my purchases more and build my collection more gradually. The price increases that have hit the UK should make that easier as I’m having a hard time justifying more than one CSGM a year going forward.

However I’d still like to add a 140 silk twill and maybe another 70. I then need to figure out how to find some of the Alice Shirley designs I missed out on.

Resolution #2 is to find more time to play around with my scarves and try out different knots.

Looking forward to getting to know you all more and seeing more of your beautiful scarves in 2023!

Ah yes slippery slope indeed! You are already showing more restraint than I had!

Happy New Year Bunny and Snickers!
I haven’t set any resolutions… but I do have a couple goals:
1) Sell the scarves that aren’t 100% favorites.
2) To attempt to pry my Sales Googles off…. This will be difficult - they’re so much a part of me! I find a good bargoon (copyright @Snausages) practically irresistible, and if it’s pink too - well - all bets are off.
3) Stop buying pink scarves…

It‘s January 1st, and I haven’t bought a scarf in 21 days!

Ohmigoodness - this is a gorgeous look!

So lovely to see you HH, and we all look forward to seeing you more often!

Holy guacamole - outstanding - It goes with everything!

Ooooo the red with your cream sweater is so beautiful! ❤️

Goals are good! I too need to end the Sales Googles, or at least ban wearing them awhile.

You and Snickers have distracted me completely from all my good intentions and resolutions @bunnycat! And thank you for a lovely introduction, beautiful flat lays and great New Year inspiration.

No one could argue with those resolutions @papertiger!

No new scarves? Oh @millivanilli -- my heart just skipped about twenty beats. However your travels sound fascinating and I hope whatever you do we will see some scarves on site during your travels. I do love your cw of C'est la Fete but in my early days I would have been too intimidated to buy it. Your wall will be spectacularly dressed!

There is nothing about this post I don't love @Coco2606-- your noble resolutions, of course but your adorable mod shot and your beautiful outfit were the true New Year's Scarf Happiness this morning!

That is a beautiful CCP @xincinsin! I can no longer wear some of the neutrals I used to favor so those (and some well intended gifts) formed the core of my first CCP efforts. Later I learned the perils of buying place-holders-- mine always end up in the CCP pile! If any of your squawking birds need a new home, I'll be happy to feather a new nest...

A stunner on you and I do so hope you keep your resolutions but especially the one of showing up here! I cannot express to you how amazingly helpful-- no I should amend to say *essential* your amazing blog and the series Scarf of the Moment has been to me. For a newbie collector your comprehensive entries and the colorway photos were a gift. Thank you for that and for continuing to do it! I loved your recent entries no less than the historical ones. Your Maharani and scarf ring are gorgeous!

I look forward to learning from your rehoming process @Snausages (and perhaps being a forever home to some?) but I look equally forward to your amazing grail hunt successes and additions each season to your fabulous collection...Let me know when you find a second and third neck so I can order some too for the 3X per scarf goal. Also I have adopted your "let it rise" strategy when a new scarf may be slow to meet expectations...and often the extra time is just what it needed...

I think you have absolutely met your pandemic goal @Redbirdhermes-- your theme contributions are wonderful and amazing. I share your collecting history to a degree in that during the pandemic I focused all the time, attention and resources that were not being expended on other things on building my collection. This past year I slowed down on 90s but was hardly restrained in other formats. One thing I think I will not sacrifice are the new season scarves. I love that process and I love planning additions to enjoy and wear. All that is to say that I love the new ones you have chosen, including this adorable scarf with lovely corners and colors and an unusual colored hem! It is a great complement to your beautiful pearls, but then so many of your silks are!

:LOL: @Marie-the-Mary! You were clever to insert that little caveat: one fresh one from the boutique but no limit on happy surprises you may find in the reseller market! I like that manner of thinking, myself...

This is a great resolution @EtsyBoss. As someone who spent forty of her adult years in Manhattan, black was the default color, for sure. But I have found that a lot of scarves are far more wearable and shine to greater advantage on other color tops. Both your Lanternes look beautiful and we are twins on the marine, which is a gorgeous silk!

Very good resolutions and a fine start to our shared obsession @GloWW0rM! i think if you scratch the surface of any scarfie here, you will hear a variation on this theme... And there's no better place for inspiration on both playing with your silks and trying new knots!

Miss Snick is a good derailer! I regularly vow to make her eat more of the good she is supposed to and fewer treats but that never seems to happen.

I feel (at least this morning) that I have accomplished a great deal that I wanted to for my collection over the past three years. I had fun last year with new formats (140 silks and CSGM, Triangle Geant and mousselines) and I think all of those are where I want them to be. My first love is and always will be the 90 silk twill and I freely collect designs that I love whether or not I plan to give them lots of wear-- simply for the beauty and because they feel essential to a true collection. I often analogize my scarf collection to a good poetry anthology: it should have the classic, the innovative, the well-loved, that which endures and yes, even room for the occasional avant-garde or experimental pieces. For this year, I feel content that my CCP* are done and I am mostly finished with "backfilling" prior season scarves I missed. I have about a dozen designs and a few artists I would like to collect (including two unicorn grails), a few older design CSGMs as well. Other than that 2023 will be the year I assiduously search out the scarves of my birth year, as I turn 70 in October and would like 7 designs from 1953 if I can find them. So wish me luck! My New Year SOTD is the big sister to Chorus Stellarum: C'est la Fete. Happy New Year Scarflandia. Delighted to be embarking on another year of Silky Adventures.
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And for @Coco2606 -- the "CCP" is just a three letter acronym I coined for a process of seeking a new and more desirable colorway of a scarf I already owned -- often because I had chosen unwisely, it no longer suited my look, wardrobe or style or simply because I saw a more beautiful one here! I put about 14 scarves into the CCP over the past few years...

You have an amazing collection LKB. All of your choices are very well thought out.

 

[LKBNOLA]

Happy New Year Bunny and Snickers!
I haven’t set any resolutions… but I do have a couple goals:
1) Sell the scarves that aren’t 100% favorites.
2) To attempt to pry my Sales Googles off…. This will be difficult - they’re so much a part of me! I find a good bargoon (copyright @Snausages) practically irresistible, and if it’s pink too - well - all bets are off.
3) Stop buying pink scarves…

It‘s January 1st, and I haven’t bought a scarf in 21 days!

Ohmigoodness - this is a gorgeous look!

So lovely to see you HH, and we all look forward to seeing you more often!

Holy guacamole - outstanding - It goes with everything!

Ooooo the red with your cream sweater is so beautiful! ❤️

I wonder if your "Sales Goggles"are really "rose-colored glasses" so that all scarves will look pink to you? But I can see that Goal #1 is certainly realistic, @Cookiefiend. Twenty one days is an eternity in politics and in scarf buying, right?

 

[Nomad]

Early AM - My scarf resolution - NO pink scarves purchases in 2023!

By mid-afternoon.......I have already abandoned my pledge.....shamelessly and with much enthusiasm.....ordered (2).


Here's wishing a Happy New Year from MAGJES & Family to the sweet scarf loving ladies on tpf!

Hahah I love this! This is SO how it is haha

I feel (at least this morning) that I have accomplished a great deal that I wanted to for my collection over the past three years. I had fun last year with new formats (140 silks and CSGM, Triangle Geant and mousselines) and I think all of those are where I want them to be. My first love is and always will be the 90 silk twill and I freely collect designs that I love whether or not I plan to give them lots of wear-- simply for the beauty and because they feel essential to a true collection. I often analogize my scarf collection to a good poetry anthology: it should have the classic, the innovative, the well-loved, that which endures and yes, even room for the occasional avant-garde or experimental pieces. For this year, I feel content that my CCP* are done and I am mostly finished with "backfilling" prior season scarves I missed. I have about a dozen designs and a few artists I would like to collect (including two unicorn grails), a few older design CSGMs as well. Other than that 2023 will be the year I assiduously search out the scarves of my birth year, as I turn 70 in October and would like 7 designs from 1953 if I can find them. So wish me luck! My New Year SOTD is the big sister to Chorus Stellarum: C'est la Fete. Happy New Year Scarflandia. Delighted to be embarking on another year of Silky Adventures.
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And for @Coco2606 -- the "CCP" is just a three letter acronym I coined for a process of seeking a new and more desirable colorway of a scarf I already owned -- often because I had chosen unwisely, it no longer suited my look, wardrobe or style or simply because I saw a more beautiful one here! I put about 14 scarves into the CCP over the past few years...

Wodnerful to see this moody color against the lighter top. And I fully enjoyed reading about your thoughts. Good luck on your birth year hunt! and please help explain to the rest of us what being mostly finished with backfilling on past designs feels like. I’m asking for a friend

I wonder if your "Sales Goggles"are really "rose-colored glasses" so that all scarves will look pink to you? But I can see that Goal #1 is certainly realistic, @Cookiefiend. Twenty one days is an eternity in politics and in scarf buying, right?

Haha I was thinking it was a typo of 2.1 @Cookiefiend lol

 

[xincinsin]

I feel (at least this morning) that I have accomplished a great deal that I wanted to for my collection over the past three years. I had fun last year with new formats (140 silks and CSGM, Triangle Geant and mousselines) and I think all of those are where I want them to be. My first love is and always will be the 90 silk twill and I freely collect designs that I love whether or not I plan to give them lots of wear-- simply for the beauty and because they feel essential to a true collection. I often analogize my scarf collection to a good poetry anthology: it should have the classic, the innovative, the well-loved, that which endures and yes, even room for the occasional avant-garde or experimental pieces. For this year, I feel content that my CCP* are done and I am mostly finished with "backfilling" prior season scarves I missed. I have about a dozen designs and a few artists I would like to collect (including two unicorn grails), a few older design CSGMs as well. Other than that 2023 will be the year I assiduously search out the scarves of my birth year, as I turn 70 in October and would like 7 designs from 1953 if I can find them. So wish me luck! My New Year SOTD is the big sister to Chorus Stellarum: C'est la Fete. Happy New Year Scarflandia. Delighted to be embarking on another year of Silky Adventures.
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And for @Coco2606 -- the "CCP" is just a three letter acronym I coined for a process of seeking a new and more desirable colorway of a scarf I already owned -- often because I had chosen unwisely, it no longer suited my look, wardrobe or style or simply because I saw a more beautiful one here! I put about 14 scarves into the CCP over the past few years...

Such an inspirational and aspirational idea! I'll keep a look-out for 1953 designs for you too!