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

[bunnycat]

So, even pre-pandemic, my working hours almost exactly matched store hours, and I'm not near downtown. Post-pandemic, I haven't been in a store in forever. I got to travel through LHR this holiday season, which I was super excited by. Was looking casually at scarves, a random guy walks in: "Is that a women's scarf?" "Yes, it's 900 pounds." "I'll take it." He leaves, I ask for a few specific things, none of which they have. She shows me some scarves: "I know this is H heresy, but I don't like orange." She gives me a sickly smile, shows me another scarf. "I... am not a horse person?" We agree that hopefully on my return trip they'll have SS 23 scarves and we'll have better luck.

This is possibly great for the wallet, but it feels weird.

I have a remedy now. I have fallen for the H lipsticks....so I'll likely never go home empty handed again, and can also be guilt free...

Obviously the rehome-group is quite big at the beginning of the year! I am already feeling better by having company

I am already losing track, but I just want to thank those of you who have been so complimentary about my blog. The Scarf of the Moment posts take quite some time to compile and I really enjoy writing them. Please let me know if you ever find errors or any additions I could use. I will never use my blog for financial gain as it helps me to feel useful despite my health issues. I also point visitors back here to tPF quite often!

The price increase here in the UK has really shocked me, so I think I will be “shopping my collection” this year!

Finally, I don’t think that I have posted this photo with Plumes en Fête CSGM before. Apologies if I have…

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Beautiful HH! Plumes en Fete is lovely on you!

Thank you to everyone for your nice reactions to my resolution post! I can see that "rehoming" is a common theme as we start the New Year-- a natural impulse to shed a bit of baggage and start off with a clean slate. But I am only adding more !!! I completed 90% of my Spring Season shopping (so happy to have done it in the boutique and online early this year before we return to NOLA) and I am expecting the very last CCP to arrive tomorrow as well as two others, but they are on the list so I do not need to carry any guilt about them. Although all were purchased in 2022, I am counting them as 2023 for their date of arrival. In the meantime, I am challenging myself like @EtsyBoss, to rethink my top-scarf combinations. I tend to get into a rut but yesterday I paired a dark and slightly menswear cw of C'est la Fete with an ardoise blue sweater and I liked the freshness of the look. Today I am wearing my beloved Lanternes in the pink nacre cw on a darker top. I normally wear this with brighter raspberry pink, camel, white and black. Also trying a variation on the necklace tie and a "hide the border strategy, too!
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Superbly tied LKB!

It was June of 2020 and I had just begun collecting Hermes scarves when @Living.la.vida.fifi modelled her Les Tresors d'un Artiste in the amazing beige, red, blue and green colorway and I fell in love with both the design and the colorway. A month later I found the design brand new at a great price in an acceptable colorway (meaning, not orange) and purchased it. A placeholder scarf, for sure.

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It has taken 2 1/2 years of searching, but I finally found the original colorway that I fell in love with.

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My original intention was to put the blue colorway into the CCP program, but maybe not. That's okay.

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In any case, a related resolution this year is to limit the number of light blue scarves that I purchase. While I like light blue tops just fine, I don't seem to like that color in scarves nearly as much. I've mentioned this before, as it is something that has really surprised me.

Introducing my new-to-me Les Tresors d'un Artiste as my SOTD.

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Congrats on your new Tresors!

Happy new year, scarfies! 2022 was a culling and slow down year for me. I think I added approximately ten scarves total, and experimented with the gavroche format. I also unloaded quite a few scarves that weren’t bringing me joy, and just shipped off the last of them on December 30th! I have now got my 90 collection to 24 scarves that I love, and I’m planning on being very selective with future additions (no impulse buys!).

As for the CCP, one combination that always entices me is pink and yellow, but unfortunately these seem to be the scarves that end up the most on my chopping block. I have decided that one cause of this is the white that is often prevalent in pink and yellow scarves. White seems to be my scarf downfall. My last scarf of 2022 attempts to correct this, adding pink in a bit of a warmer tone, and pale yellow, but with no white (with the exception of one white moon). Still mulling, but so far this works better for me!

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This is a great colorway and one I have definitely considered!

 

[bunnycat]

This morning I was in the mood for an alternative to the Colliers et Chiens I usually wear around the house to brighten up this gray shirt. I settled on my other wash scarf, tied to keep it out of the way of plant repotting and other tasks. I took some photos, which reacquainted me with the fun details of this Laboratoire.

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Beautiful! And love your "scarf helper".

 

[greycity]

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!).

Twins on the orange lanternes! I was eyeing the navy one as well—both look lovely on you!

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

Seconding you and many others on this thread - this was my exact experience too (also commencing in 2022)…! I just counted and I went from 1 gifted scarf pre-2022 to now having 11 in all… does it help if 3 of them were secondhand? oh well - it is a slippery, gorgeous, happy slope!!

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.

Great resolution and one I have at the top of my list as well. Wishing you all the best in making this happen for you in 2023 as well

In the meantime, I am challenging myself like @EtsyBoss, to rethink my top-scarf combinations.

This is a great resolution! A related one for me, I usually wear my silk 90s for work or fancier occasions. I resolve to expand and rethink my scarf-outfit combinations to include more casual outfits too

Oh and another resolution I am attempting to do more.. beginning here! successfully utilizing the multi quote functionality..

Happy new year to everyone!!

 

[Ashanti_Rose]

I am already losing track, but I just want to thank those of you who have been so complimentary about my blog. The Scarf of the Moment posts take quite some time to compile and I really enjoy writing them. Please let me know if you ever find errors or any additions I could use. I will never use my blog for financial gain as it helps me to feel useful despite my health issues. I also point visitors back here to tPF quite often!

The price increase here in the UK has really shocked me, so I think I will be “shopping my collection” this year!

Finally, I don’t think that I have posted this photo with Plumes en Fête CSGM before. Apologies if I have…

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It is a gorgeous shawl, Anne! I own the same in CW09 and am on the lookout for another CW. It is such a beautiful design and it looks perfectly paired with your cosy sweater!

 

[xincinsin]

Hello dear scarf friends! Am not a frequent commenter here - well, I look through the thread on occasion to admire mod shots or get ideas about some scarves in action - but never have time to really comment or post anything. Just wanted to send kudos to those who put these weekly threads together - very creative and super fun, I am admiring the level of creativity and dedication to this! I will try pop in and out on occasion - while I am mostly a CSGM wearer, perhaps this forum will make me use my 90 silks a bit more! Happy New Year to everyone!

Oh, do join in the fun! Nothing makes the scarf mistresses happier than knowing our silkmates here are enjoying the camaraderie.

 

[EtsyBoss]

Thank you to everyone for your nice reactions to my resolution post! I can see that "rehoming" is a common theme as we start the New Year-- a natural impulse to shed a bit of baggage and start off with a clean slate. But I am only adding more !!! I completed 90% of my Spring Season shopping (so happy to have done it in the boutique and online early this year before we return to NOLA) and I am expecting the very last CCP to arrive tomorrow as well as two others, but they are on the list so I do not need to carry any guilt about them. Although all were purchased in 2022, I am counting them as 2023 for their date of arrival. In the meantime, I am challenging myself like @EtsyBoss, to rethink my top-scarf combinations. I tend to get into a rut but yesterday I paired a dark and slightly menswear cw of C'est la Fete with an ardoise blue sweater and I liked the freshness of the look. Today I am wearing my beloved Lanternes in the pink nacre cw on a darker top. I normally wear this with brighter raspberry pink, camel, white and black. Also trying a variation on the necklace tie and a "hide the border strategy, too!
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I love this with the darker burgundy color and the hiding of the border is splendid!

 

[EtsyBoss]

I am already losing track, but I just want to thank those of you who have been so complimentary about my blog. The Scarf of the Moment posts take quite some time to compile and I really enjoy writing them. Please let me know if you ever find errors or any additions I could use. I will never use my blog for financial gain as it helps me to feel useful despite my health issues. I also point visitors back here to tPF quite often!

The price increase here in the UK has really shocked me, so I think I will be “shopping my collection” this year!

Finally, I don’t think that I have posted this photo with Plumes en Fête CSGM before. Apologies if I have…

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This is such a beautiful colorway and styling with your hair and glowing skin!

 

[Coco2606]

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[Lellabelle]

Well, my resolution this year definitely must be to slow down my purchases. Based on arrival date, quite a few 2021 purchases made it into my 2022 total, which I am not quite ready to acknowledge here. Suffice to say it wasn’t quite as many as dear @Nomad (whose finds were were superb, including some grails!), however I let go of zero so I need to book myself some time on the island! Christmas didn’t help, as I basically nominated all my acquisitions from the last three months to ‘Christmas treats’. As a positive, I will have a few to share over the coming months of self-enforced austerity!

I love some of the thoughtful resolutions here, all of which improve the individual’s collection, or use, in some meaningful way. I will also endeavour to wear less black (which may be as futile a goal as resisting the new season loveliness!). I am not ready to release any yet, so will not even attempt to make a resolution in that area. While I probably could cut my collection in half and still have a strong capsule wardrobe, they all get some neck time and I enjoy having the choice to be able to mix and match my mood and outfit choices.

My final, and most meaningful resolution is to stop being so precious about my most treasured silks and actually enjoy them rather than saving them. I’m sure this resonates with a few of us here!

Recently acquired robe elegant (legere) below. Happy 2023 everyone!

 

[Awillow]

Happy 2023, dear scarfies! Looking forward to another year of wonderful themes and interesting conversation and friendship with you all!

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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Bunny, Happy New Year to you and sweet Snickers! Thanks for a wonderful intro. I love your Peinture, and, whoa, that special hem!

I do have some resolutions and will post them with my scarf today below.

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)

Snausages, I need to learn this new skill you call rehoming. I would love to follow you in kondoing my collection and rehoming all those I don't adore, but I would settle for getting 3 out the door. Deep breath. Baby steps.

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! ❤️

Cookie, I will hold your sales goggles if you will hold mine! (All bets are off when a moussie is in sight!)

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...

Lkb - ah, the ccp... I have one coming that is part of my ccp, but will I part with its lesser sister?! Again, learn about this thing you all call rehoming.

Easier resolution, add three new knots to repertoire, beginning with this one with my very own ClF. Stunning!!

Hello, everyone, and so happy to begin 2023 in such great company and already seeing some fabulous scarves!

My New Year scarf resolutions are:
1. One scarf out - One scarf in.
This one is actually painful as I am dying to purchase a few scarves from the new collection but am refraining to until I rehome something of equal value. My present collection is out of control and there are literally not enough days in the year to wear them all so a lot of beauties languish in their boxes and that is a shame.

2. Be a little more aggressive with CCP.
There are designs I own in multiples just because I love them, however, not every CW works as well for me. So, even though it may be hard, this has got to be the year to say goodbye to some of my Jungle Loves, Mexiques, Hola Flamencas, Les Becanes, and a few others that I went overboard with in the past just because I was fascinated by the design. And, speaking of “colors” I find there is an overabundance of similar CWs in my collection and I think it’s time I reflect before I add “another blue and yellow scarf” or another “red scarf” similar to one I already own. And, if I must add that “blue and yellow” or “red” scarf, then I must do so when I rehome the one(s) like it that I already own.

3. Challenge myself to wear a scarf every day (even though I live in a tropical climate). And, on the subject of warm climes, no more CSGMs in 2023 and strive to rehome some of the ones I already own, which is an overabundance considering my geography

Wishing everyone a healthy, happy 2023 full of wonderful scarves!

Fifi, I will join you in your scarf a day challenge. And like you, I have fallen down the blue and gold rabbit hole.

Here is my scarf today - one of my very favorites, Tropiques Poinconne


In general, I am going to try to be more mindful this year. Hopefully that will lead to greater appreciation of what I have and refine what I choose to acquire/consume.

I would love to begin actively curating my collection.

I expect to limit my new scarves to 6. (Room for my 3 grails, an as-yet unidentified 140 silk with blue as the main color, and two new or must-haves based on this thread!)

 

[Snausages]

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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It was June of 2020 and I had just begun collecting Hermes scarves when @Living.la.vida.fifi modelled her Les Tresors d'un Artiste in the amazing beige, red, blue and green colorway and I fell in love with both the design and the colorway. A month later I found the design brand new at a great price in an acceptable colorway (meaning, not orange) and purchased it. A placeholder scarf, for sure.

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It has taken 2 1/2 years of searching, but I finally found the original colorway that I fell in love with.

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My original intention was to put the blue colorway into the CCP program, but maybe not. That's okay.

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In any case, a related resolution this year is to limit the number of light blue scarves that I purchase. While I like light blue tops just fine, I don't seem to like that color in scarves nearly as much. I've mentioned this before, as it is something that has really surprised me.

Introducing my new-to-me Les Tresors d'un Artiste as my SOTD.

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I wish I could work with browns and taupes as you do @Redbirdhermes

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

It’s a worthy aspiration @paula24jen but a challenge to execute!

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 once knew a collector who only bought black and white scarves! @EtsyBoss if you like dark blue rest assured there are thousands of variations in the H color library so they’re really quite different (just call me the devil on your shoulder!)

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!

As a lover of pink I’m eager to know what is headed your way @MAGJES

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 @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!

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!

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...

Thank you to everyone for your nice reactions to my resolution post! I can see that "rehoming" is a common theme as we start the New Year-- a natural impulse to shed a bit of baggage and start off with a clean slate. But I am only adding more !!! I completed 90% of my Spring Season shopping (so happy to have done it in the boutique and online early this year before we return to NOLA) and I am expecting the very last CCP to arrive tomorrow as well as two others, but they are on the list so I do not need to carry any guilt about them. Although all were purchased in 2022, I am counting them as 2023 for their date of arrival. In the meantime, I am challenging myself like @EtsyBoss, to rethink my top-scarf combinations. I tend to get into a rut but yesterday I paired a dark and slightly menswear cw of C'est la Fete with an ardoise blue sweater and I liked the freshness of the look. Today I am wearing my beloved Lanternes in the pink nacre cw on a darker top. I normally wear this with brighter raspberry pink, camel, white and black. Also trying a variation on the necklace tie and a "hide the border strategy, too!
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Beautiful C’est la Fete @LKBNOLA and rehoming is for me a painful process. There are a few that bounce between the rehome pile and the scarf drawer but I need to remind myself of the relief I feel when a bid adieu to a silk that just doesn’t cut the mustard.

And speaking of mustard… twins on Lanternes and while I adore the mustard gold border I’d love to know how you hid it!

I ditto this!! I actually wear the scarves I am trying to see if I should keep, more than the ones that make my heart skip a beat haha. How is that possible!?! Crazy really.
I also have scarves I haven’t worn since 2020. Just crazy.

and to the convo w @Coco2606, 6 is an admirable goal. I could def do 6 on new season, but it would be tough for me with so many older ones I would love to add .
Technically last year I acquired only 6, if you count 35 came in and (I just recounted) 29 went out…then I only kept 6

H math at its finest @Nomad

@Living.la.vida.fifi I can so relate to much of what you said above. I have always tried to keep track of colors in my collection and not adding similar colors. But you know how it is..designs can be “different enough” to warrant still getting a “similar” color scheme scarf.
You mentioned reds and blues. These are my red and blue scarves. what I have kept, what I re-homed last year, what is on the re-home pile, what I am doing ccp with. Top row I have kept- Atlantide ( one of my fav scarves), tresors d’artiste ( I could ccp but I just love the sunflower in yellow), and that Canadian on the right sometimes makes it into the re-home pile because I Have three other cw’s and it’s similar to tresors. But I just love the design SO much it comes back into collection. 2nd row-The giverny stays because it’s not big swaths of red and blue. the artisans is actually on the rehome pile because I have 2 other cw’s I like better. But of course I see this pic and say…oh..wait…I just love those scenes on that and that red hem . 3rd row is what left my collection last year. Carnaval de venise, and art du sarasa. Sarasa is going to be a ccp to another cw. I am thinking of @Teaforparrots colorway . And carnaval is also on a ccp to find another cw bc I Love the design. Something light colored because I have a dark of it.
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Sorry my posts have been so long lately. These end of year and beginning of year ones get ya thinking haha.

That Giverny is divine @Nomad please don’t rehome it! But if you do gimme a shout LOL

I am already losing track, but I just want to thank those of you who have been so complimentary about my blog. The Scarf of the Moment posts take quite some time to compile and I really enjoy writing them. Please let me know if you ever find errors or any additions I could use. I will never use my blog for financial gain as it helps me to feel useful despite my health issues. I also point visitors back here to tPF quite often!

The price increase here in the UK has really shocked me, so I think I will be “shopping my collection” this year!

Finally, I don’t think that I have posted this photo with Plumes en Fête CSGM before. Apologies if I have…

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Beautiful PeF @HermesHope - H does feathers so well

Happy new year, scarfies! 2022 was a culling and slow down year for me. I think I added approximately ten scarves total, and experimented with the gavroche format. I also unloaded quite a few scarves that weren’t bringing me joy, and just shipped off the last of them on December 30th! I have now got my 90 collection to 24 scarves that I love, and I’m planning on being very selective with future additions (no impulse buys!).

As for the CCP, one combination that always entices me is pink and yellow, but unfortunately these seem to be the scarves that end up the most on my chopping block. I have decided that one cause of this is the white that is often prevalent in pink and yellow scarves. White seems to be my scarf downfall. My last scarf of 2022 attempts to correct this, adding pink in a bit of a warmer tone, and pale yellow, but with no white (with the exception of one white moon). Still mulling, but so far this works better for me!

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Wonderful addition @laurenad

This morning I was in the mood for an alternative to the Colliers et Chiens I usually wear around the house to brighten up this gray shirt. I settled on my other wash scarf, tied to keep it out of the way of plant repotting and other tasks. I took some photos, which reacquainted me with the fun details of this Laboratoire.

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Excuse me @Teaforparrots you are burying the lead: who is that sweet feline?!

Well, my resolution this year definitely must be to slow down my purchases. Based on arrival date, quite a few 2021 purchases made it into my 2022 total, which I am not quite ready to acknowledge here. Suffice to say it wasn’t quite as many as dear @Nomad (whose finds were were superb, including some grails!), however I let go of zero so I need to book myself some time on the island! Christmas didn’t help, as I basically nominated all my acquisitions from the last three months to ‘Christmas treats’. As a positive, I will have a few to share over the coming months of self-enforced austerity!

I love some of the thoughtful resolutions here, all of which improve the individual’s collection, or use, in some meaningful way. I will also endeavour to wear less black (which may be as futile a goal as resisting the new season loveliness!). I am not ready to release any yet, so will not even attempt to make a resolution in that area. While I probably could cut my collection in half and still have a strong capsule wardrobe, they all get some neck time and I enjoy having the choice to be able to mix and match my mood and outfit choices.

My final, and most meaningful resolution is to stop being so precious about my most treasured silks and actually enjoy them rather than saving them. I’m sure this resonates with a few of us here!

Recently acquired robe elegant (legere) below. Happy 2023 everyone!

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@Lellabelle i love the resolution of wearing our beauties with a bit more abandon!

Happy 2023, dear scarfies! Looking forward to another year of wonderful themes and interesting conversation and friendship with you all!


Bunny, Happy New Year to you and sweet Snickers! Thanks for a wonderful intro. I love your Peinture, and, whoa, that special hem!

I do have some resolutions and will post them with my scarf today below.

Snausages, I need to learn this new skill you call rehoming. I would love to follow you in kondoing my collection and rehoming all those I don't adore, but I would settle for getting 3 out the door. Deep breath. Baby steps.

Cookie, I will hold your sales goggles if you will hold mine! (All bets are off when a moussie is in sight!)

Lkb - ah, the ccp... I have one coming that is part of my ccp, but will I part with its lesser sister?! Again, learn about this thing you all call rehoming.

Easier resolution, add three new knots to repertoire, beginning with this one with my very own ClF. Stunning!!



Fifi, I will join you in your scarf a day challenge. And like you, I have fallen down the blue and gold rabbit hole.

Here is my scarf today - one of my very favorites, Tropiques Poinconne
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In general, I am going to try to be more mindful this year. Hopefully that will lead to greater appreciation of what I have and refine what I choose to acquire/consume.

I would love to begin actively curating my collection.

I expect to limit my new scarves to 6. (Room for my 3 grails, an as-yet unidentified 140 silk with blue as the main color, and two new or must-haves based on this thread!)

@Awillow I find Kondoing to be somewhat painful no matter the category - must remind myself of the relief of no longer seeing something that gives me any feelings beyond joy

 

[Cookiefiend]

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!

Cant wait to see your new pinks!

It was June of 2020 and I had just begun collecting Hermes scarves when @Living.la.vida.fifi modelled her Les Tresors d'un Artiste in the amazing beige, red, blue and green colorway and I fell in love with both the design and the colorway. A month later I found the design brand new at a great price in an acceptable colorway (meaning, not orange) and purchased it. A placeholder scarf, for sure.

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It has taken 2 1/2 years of searching, but I finally found the original colorway that I fell in love with.

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My original intention was to put the blue colorway into the CCP program, but maybe not. That's okay.

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In any case, a related resolution this year is to limit the number of light blue scarves that I purchase. While I like light blue tops just fine, I don't seem to like that color in scarves nearly as much. I've mentioned this before, as it is something that has really surprised me.

Introducing my new-to-me Les Tresors d'un Artiste as my SOTD.

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They’re both lovely, but the lighter blue - as @Katharina Luise said - it would be beautiful in the spring and summer, especially with a white top.

Happy new year, scarfies! 2022 was a culling and slow down year for me. I think I added approximately ten scarves total, and experimented with the gavroche format. I also unloaded quite a few scarves that weren’t bringing me joy, and just shipped off the last of them on December 30th! I have now got my 90 collection to 24 scarves that I love, and I’m planning on being very selective with future additions (no impulse buys!).

As for the CCP, one combination that always entices me is pink and yellow, but unfortunately these seem to be the scarves that end up the most on my chopping block. I have decided that one cause of this is the white that is often prevalent in pink and yellow scarves. White seems to be my scarf downfall. My last scarf of 2022 attempts to correct this, adding pink in a bit of a warmer tone, and pale yellow, but with no white (with the exception of one white moon). Still mulling, but so far this works better for me!

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This is lovely on you!

This morning I was in the mood for an alternative to the Colliers et Chiens I usually wear around the house to brighten up this gray shirt. I settled on my other wash scarf, tied to keep it out of the way of plant repotting and other tasks. I took some photos, which reacquainted me with the fun details of this Laboratoire.

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Perfect, and sending lovey eyes to your lil friend.

Happy 2023, dear scarfies! Looking forward to another year of wonderful themes and interesting conversation and friendship with you all!


Bunny, Happy New Year to you and sweet Snickers! Thanks for a wonderful intro. I love your Peinture, and, whoa, that special hem!

I do have some resolutions and will post them with my scarf today below.

Snausages, I need to learn this new skill you call rehoming. I would love to follow you in kondoing my collection and rehoming all those I don't adore, but I would settle for getting 3 out the door. Deep breath. Baby steps.

Cookie, I will hold your sales goggles if you will hold mine! (All bets are off when a moussie is in sight!)

Lkb - ah, the ccp... I have one coming that is part of my ccp, but will I part with its lesser sister?! Again, learn about this thing you all call rehoming.

Easier resolution, add three new knots to repertoire, beginning with this one with my very own ClF. Stunning!!



Fifi, I will join you in your scarf a day challenge. And like you, I have fallen down the blue and gold rabbit hole.

Here is my scarf today - one of my very favorites, Tropiques Poinconne
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In general, I am going to try to be more mindful this year. Hopefully that will lead to greater appreciation of what I have and refine what I choose to acquire/consume.

I would love to begin actively curating my collection.

I expect to limit my new scarves to 6. (Room for my 3 grails, an as-yet unidentified 140 silk with blue as the main color, and two new or must-haves based on this thread!)

Truly beautiful!

 

[bunnycat]

Happy 2023, dear scarfies! Looking forward to another year of wonderful themes and interesting conversation and friendship with you all!


Bunny, Happy New Year to you and sweet Snickers! Thanks for a wonderful intro. I love your Peinture, and, whoa, that special hem!

I do have some resolutions and will post them with my scarf today below.

Snausages, I need to learn this new skill you call rehoming. I would love to follow you in kondoing my collection and rehoming all those I don't adore, but I would settle for getting 3 out the door. Deep breath. Baby steps.

Cookie, I will hold your sales goggles if you will hold mine! (All bets are off when a moussie is in sight!)

Lkb - ah, the ccp... I have one coming that is part of my ccp, but will I part with its lesser sister?! Again, learn about this thing you all call rehoming.

Easier resolution, add three new knots to repertoire, beginning with this one with my very own ClF. Stunning!!



Fifi, I will join you in your scarf a day challenge. And like you, I have fallen down the blue and gold rabbit hole.

Here is my scarf today - one of my very favorites, Tropiques Poinconne
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In general, I am going to try to be more mindful this year. Hopefully that will lead to greater appreciation of what I have and refine what I choose to acquire/consume.

I would love to begin actively curating my collection.

I expect to limit my new scarves to 6. (Room for my 3 grails, an as-yet unidentified 140 silk with blue as the main color, and two new or must-haves based on this thread!)

Thank you kindly Awillow!

Your red Tropiques is a dream! And I think the idea of mindful additions is a very good resolution.

 

[Awillow]

Well, my resolution this year definitely must be to slow down my purchases. Based on arrival date, quite a few 2021 purchases made it into my 2022 total, which I am not quite ready to acknowledge here. Suffice to say it wasn’t quite as many as dear @Nomad (whose finds were were superb, including some grails!), however I let go of zero so I need to book myself some time on the island! Christmas didn’t help, as I basically nominated all my acquisitions from the last three months to ‘Christmas treats’. As a positive, I will have a few to share over the coming months of self-enforced austerity!

I love some of the thoughtful resolutions here, all of which improve the individual’s collection, or use, in some meaningful way. I will also endeavour to wear less black (which may be as futile a goal as resisting the new season loveliness!). I am not ready to release any yet, so will not even attempt to make a resolution in that area. While I probably could cut my collection in half and still have a strong capsule wardrobe, they all get some neck time and I enjoy having the choice to be able to mix and match my mood and outfit choices.

My final, and most meaningful resolution is to stop being so precious about my most treasured silks and actually enjoy them rather than saving them. I’m sure this resonates with a few of us here!

Recently acquired robe elegant (legere) below. Happy 2023 everyone!

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Lellabelle, I did give up being precious about my silks two or three years ago, and I enjoy them so much more now!

That is a lovely Rose Legere. Is it the marine/parme/rose?

 

[Marie-the-Mary]

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Perfect color combination