Scarves Scarf of The Day 2024 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

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Redbirdhermes said:
Thank you for the marvelous introduction to the first week of the 2024 Scarf of the Day thread, @bunnycat. I am crossing over to Levity Week with one of my 2023 Oscarf nominees. I already owned two colorways of Animapolis, but once I saw mod shots of the red Godzilla, I had to have him.

My scarf of the day is Animapolis in CW02, the bordeaux/rouge/bleu.

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This is a fabulous cw, RBH, so rich. And since we’re talkin’ selfies, yours are wonderful! Grand pearls, too. Ok so here’s my very gay cw (gay in the old usage) of Animapolis, that riotous city of all sorts of merry creatures.
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BlueLilac said:
Thank you for the new setup @papertiger, and thank you to the Scarf Mistresses for putting together this exciting new schedule for 2024.



I'm still catching up on the old thread, so please bear with me as I improvise with makeshift multi-quotes.

@Cordeliere Those are gorgeous selfies! And some lovely acquisitions. The image of the aqualung divers just cracked me up. You have a such a wonderful, warm presence on this forum, please continue to post. I hope 2024 will bring you some relief and will be easier than the past year.

@Maedi - Whoohoo on the Tiger coming out! I hope we'll get to see it more often.

@Cookiefiend - Your collection of moussies never ceases to amaze, Cookie. One more beautiful than the the next. I've certainly gotten a lot of inspiration :angel: from you this past year.

@Teaforparrots- I love these strong colors of your CSGM on you.

@Nomad - Thank you for your lovely comment, and congratulations on your grail of grails! I'm so glad it was ALL THAT - it's truly stunning. I had to laugh at the image of you on cutthroat island. I will be joining you this year, saber in hand. I think it's time to cut loose the "if only I wear a little more makeup and buy a different top it might work" scarves.

@Ashanti_Rose - Congratulations on your successful Format Correction Program. These look amazing on you and the combination of on earrings, lipstick, and your beatitful hair are just stunning. I also love the dynamic energy in your pictures.

@Jereni - Thank you for the nice comment. I have been admiring your finds for 2023. The CWs you selected are so special and perfect for you.

@Marta_K - Congrats on this amazing Pirouettes. It looks so nonchalant in the absolute best sense of the word.

@Jacq1 - What a wonderful selection of special grails. :loveeyes:

@Croisette7 - I am joining in the chorus of those admiring your collection, and am very glad to be twins with you on a few Tulipomanies.

@Redbirdhermes - The Siestes are both extraordinary, congratulations on finding these.

@Karenska - I love your Fleurs et Papillions - what a charming design, and that JL looks extra gorgeous on you.

@Snausages - Thank you for your lovely comment. Congrats on finding the right CW of Metamorphoses. The hem is wonderful, on so is the color combination and border on your Pytheas.

@redheaddem - Glad to be twins with you! You rock these two designs, and the grey VdC look amazing on you too.

@MabelJo - That Bouclerie is very tempting! I love your JL collection, that moussie is beeeeuuuuutifuuuul.

@Julide - Wow! These are amazing! What an incredible, incredible collection. I also succumbed to 2 white Tulipomanies despite being rather intimidated by white backgrounds. They were just too beautiful.

@Lellabelle - You have so many wonderful scarves, and I did want to tell you that you looked absolutely stunning in the outfit with the BdG love and red leather bracelet.

@LKBNOLA - Thank you for your lovely comment. I am in awe of your collection and the grails you acquired this past year, and your styling ideas are always an inspiration.

@Living.la.vida.fifi - Thank you for hosting this wonderful Oscarf week, and for sharing your breathtaking collection of scarves, jewelry, and umbrellas this year. The table setting for Scottish High Tea was exquisite.
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Oh, thank you so kindly, BlueLilac.
 
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Croisette7 said:
Cordy, I just saw your mod shots ... you look so beautiful, esp. with Chacun!:heart:
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Thank you so much. Chacon is an amazing design indeed.

BTW. I agree with who ever said you deserve a lifetime achievement award for your encyclopedic collection. You do such a service here by sharing your collection. You will never know how many people felt safe to buy a scarf because you showed them how it looked when worn and what the colors really were.

Marta_K said:
Dear @Cordeliere
I am so sorry about the stress and worry 2023 brought to You and your DH, and I admire how you came to grips with it all with courage, grace and good cheer. I wish You and your Dearest and Nearest 2024 to be a year of good health, peace and lots of joy :hugs: . And thank you kindly for your sweetest comment :smile:
I also wish all of us many, many of your beautiful modshots coming here this year.
What great choice for Oscarfs. I can easily understand your love for Brides De Gala en Finesse. The colours are amazing and it's one of a kind. It looks as if it was a marble scarf which makes it so subtle, feminine and a wonderful tie.
The end to end design and joyful CW makes your Chacun Fait Son Nid a winner too. It makes you glow and looks great on black, which is a great feature, I think. Personally I find black, strangely enough, one of the most difficult background colour for scarf matching and it works perfectly with black.
And Baobab Cat... ties like a dream. Modern elegance indeed. It shows the genius of AS, and other talented H artists, that they can design a scarf in such a way that it shows its full beauty when worn.
BTW, I don’t have enough nerve to disattach composition labels from my scarves either. In this regard, I find older scarves with their smaller rectangular tags much more user friendly than the present big square ones.
Hope to "see" you here soon :wave:
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Thank you. You are an inspiration with your blouse pairings. Black generally works the best for me because of my overall coloring. I have heard people talk about how a white blouse really shows off a scarf, but it makes me look washed out. You are really really great at selecting blouse/sweater colors that add another dimension to your scarves.

It is truly amazing that the designers can create something that looks so different tied than from the flat design. Isn't it fun to be scarfie and talk about the features of a scarf like a wine connoisseur discusses a wine?
Jereni said:
I have grown to have an ok relationship with selfies, mostly because I like that they allow me to control how I look better. All my life I’ve typically hated how I look in pics esp when I smile - I hate my smile-with-teeth and so these days I generally never do it in photos.

I mainly take selfies these days for SOTD, bc I am enjoying the thread so much. Like @LKBNOLA, I have a few approaches /tricks I swear by: (1) Lipstick yes,
(2) Try to show some hair in the pic for add’l context around one’s coloring relative to the scarf
(3) Take a pic outside for best light, but not facing the sun and usually not early morning light bc it’s harsher
(4) Take the outside photo against a bush, natural, or textured backdrop (like brick or stone) which tends to help the phone camera focus well and fills out the pic.
(5) If taking pics inside, take them in the afternoon facing a window that faces south or west. Afternoon light is warm and flattering!
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I swear, the smile is the hardest part of a selfie. These are great suggestions you gave. I had never thought of a bush helping the picture stay in focus. What a great tip. These are all great tips.

Many people have not seen pictures of themselves that actually look like themselves. IMHO, pictures often catch people at their worst. The photographer's daughter in me tried to remedy that among her friends when auto focus cameras came out in 1988. I made it my mission to give my friends really good pictures of themselves, because I had a fast eye that could see when they were in one of their most representative and most endearing expressions. The camera was fast enough to capture the fleeting expression before it got away. It was stunning for my friends to see what they really looked like. I hope you have that experience of seeing how much more beautiful you are than you would know from your experience with bad pictures. Good for you for taking control of this issue.
Karenska said:
Thank you, Cordeliere, no worries about your feelings, I HATE taking selfies. I’m so bad at it. And yes, they remind me that time is marching on and as Dolly said in “Steel Magnolias”, it’s matching right across my face. :sad:
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Truly, laugh out loud.

Your Animapolis is wow! That tie loves that design.
 
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As @SilkCouture wrote: “Dear Scarfies, This year has been like a roller coaster in a teenager’s first love drama series. It kicked off with a first purchase in May, reminding me of that awkward but unforgettable first kiss. Since then, my scarf collection has grown frenetically….”
I must say I am in awe of your purchases and your styling, SilkCouture, so elegant and chic. We are twins with APdP, it’s so beautiful but I never reach for it so it is on the rehome pile. It looks faab on you, for sure. We are also twins with Cite Cavaliere, a graily treasure that I adore. I’d love to know that knot you tied with it! Love your Samurais especially the turquoise one, and the dark DuJA. All splendid. :girlsigh:
 
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Cordeliere said:
Thank you so much. Chacon is an amazing design indeed.

BTW. I agree with who ever said you deserve a lifetime achievement award for your encyclopedic collection. You do such a service here by sharing your collection. You will never know how many people felt safe to buy a scarf because you showed them how it looked when worn and what the colors really were.


Thank you. You are an inspiration with your blouse pairings. Black generally works the best for me because of my overall coloring. I have heard people talk about how a white blouse really shows off a scarf, but it makes me look washed out. You are really really great at selecting blouse/sweater colors that add another dimension to your scarves.

It is truly amazing that the designers can create something that looks so different tied than from the flat design. Isn't it fun to be scarfie and talk about the features of a scarf like a wine connoisseur discusses a wine?

I swear, the smile is the hardest part of a selfie. These are great suggestions you gave. I had never thought of a bush helping the picture stay in focus. What a great tip. These are all great tips.

Many people have not seen pictures of themselves that actually look like themselves. IMHO, pictures often catch people at their worst. The photographer's daughter in me tried to remedy that among her friends when auto focus cameras came out in 1988. I made it my mission to give my friends really good pictures of themselves, because I had a fast eye that could see when they were in one of their most representative and most endearing expressions. The camera was fast enough to capture the fleeting expression before it got away. It was stunning for my friends to see what they really looked like. I hope you have that experience of seeing how much more beautiful you are than you would know from your experience with bad pictures. Good for you for taking control of this issue.

Truly, laugh out loud.

Your Animapolis is wow! That tie loves that design.
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Thank so much, Ms Cordy :hugs:.
 
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scarf1 said:
@Cordeliere you made me laugh. It was great to see you finally! Think you look amazing and younger than 73 wish I could say the same . I think most ( all) of us struggle with selfies. At least once we get past a certain age.

Yesterdays scarf. Promenades de paris 70. Love the hem on this!
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oh those jump for joy happy hems!!!! Beautiful scarf1!
 
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Cordeliere said:
@Living.la.vida.fifi @Karenska @Cookiefiend @Jereni @Lellabelle @Winter4 @LKBNOLA @MabelJo @Nomad @GloWW0rM @momasaurus

Thank you all for the sweet comments about my Over Achievers, my selfies, and my commentary. It appears I have enabled a few of you and I am thrilled about that. For those of you with BDGEF lust, there is one at AFF at a crazy good price.

@momasaurus You probably don't remember this, but you are one of scarf friends that I was bashing Baobab Cat to back in the day. We were on the same page.

@Karenska I may have plans for that Kuna Peuple. I originally sold it back because of that citrine border. But I adored the pink and purple center and couldn't forget it. I got the bright idea of becoming a scarf surgeon. Why don't I just cut off that evil border and re-hem it? It would be roughly the size of a 70 and would all my favorite colors. Except... between the time I sold it, and the time I repurchased it, someone snuck in gold details in the center. Where did that come from? So it is a coin toss whether I give it a hair cut or re-sell it. I am kind of afraid I might become a mad scarf hacker. Retour a la Terre would be great without the border. Just sayin

@GloWW0rM I am astounded that you have struggled with selfies. Yours are the bomb. @LKBNOLA you made my day, when you said I looked relaxed and that you confessed that selfie taking can be nervous breakdown inducing.

I am going to explain why I hate selfies so much and then I will shut up about it. (1) I have emotional baggage going way back. My father was a part time professional photographer in addition to his full time job. He had an at-home dark room and developed his own pictures. He was determined to make a photo-documentary of my childhood. He had amazing technical skill for back in the day when nothing was automatic on cameras, but his bedside manner really sucked. I had to freeze while he would scan me with the light meter. I hated it with the energy of a thousand suns. As a result my face freezes when anyone points a camera at me including me. I have an adversarial relationship with cameras. My smile on my frozen face always looks fake to me. In real life I have a wicked grin rather than a sweet, deer in the headlights, smile.

(2). I am 73. Selfies became a thing in about 2010 when I was 60. Normal people developed their selfie skills on Facebook. I boycotted Facebook because it was all my high school friends who wanted me to see their daily postings of pictures of their grandchildren. No thanks. As a result, I missed an important developmental skill--selfie taking. Everyone else knows how to do this. I don't. People who regularly post selfies have a formula that they have developed that works for them. I don't have a formula. I am bumbling. I don't know how high to hold the camera. I don't know what angle to hold my head. My arms are really long, but not long enough. I tried to order a selfie stick and ended up with a tripod. Taking selfies is such work and I end up with a lot of crappy pictures before I get one keeper. But I have to say, it is getting easier. Maybe now I merely dislike it rather than actively hating it.

(3). The camera tells me things I really don't want to know. I have been fighting aging, tooth and nail, since I was about 40. I lived in SoCal for 25 years and everyone there throws a lot of money at dermatologists, including me. It helped a lot, but when you are battling time, you can fight the good fight, but time is always going to win. When you age, you loose good stuff like hair and collagen and rosy cheeks. You get bad stuff like wrinkles and sags. I don't look in the mirror much so I am only minimally aware of these unfortunate occurrences. Selfies taunt me with this bad news. Gee. I need lipstick now. Gee, lipstick feathers now because of those lip lines. Then there is the unfortunate problem that scarf selfies focus on your mouth, chin and neck. You show me a woman over 65 who says her neck is her favorite body part, and I will show you a probable lier. I have a really discriminating eye and I am unreasonably demanding of myself in selfies. If I take enough selfies, I can get one that doesn't highlight things I don't want to highlight.

Taking these last pictures, I just faced the fear and did it, and it was not as bad as I expected. I am going to try to continue to do this and not whine about it. But I am so envious of the selfie skills all of you have. I imagine that taking selfies is no more difficult for you than combing your hair.

Thanks for listening to me rant. I promise this is the last time.
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Your explanations have vivid images popping into my mind. Frozen deer in headlight smiles, turkey necks. Need to take a breather…:laugh:

Will be back:flowers:

And you don’t look 73!:faint:
 
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scarf1 said:
@Cordeliere you made me laugh. It was great to see you finally! Think you look amazing and younger than 73 wish I could say the same . I think most ( all) of us struggle with selfies. At least once we get past a certain age.

Yesterdays scarf. Promenades de paris 70. Love the hem on this!
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Oooh what a wonderful cw of one of my dearest favs. Twins with the fuscia? The hems look the same. Sisters, too.
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Cordeliere said:
Thank you so much. Chacon is an amazing design indeed.

BTW. I agree with who ever said you deserve a lifetime achievement award for your encyclopedic collection. You do such a service here by sharing your collection. You will never know how many people felt safe to buy a scarf because you showed them how it looked when worn and what the colors really were.


Thank you. You are an inspiration with your blouse pairings. Black generally works the best for me because of my overall coloring. I have heard people talk about how a white blouse really shows off a scarf, but it makes me look washed out. You are really really great at selecting blouse/sweater colors that add another dimension to your scarves.

It is truly amazing that the designers can create something that looks so different tied than from the flat design. Isn't it fun to be scarfie and talk about the features of a scarf like a wine connoisseur discusses a wine?

I swear, the smile is the hardest part of a selfie. These are great suggestions you gave. I had never thought of a bush helping the picture stay in focus. What a great tip. These are all great tips.

Many people have not seen pictures of themselves that actually look like themselves. IMHO, pictures often catch people at their worst. The photographer's daughter in me tried to remedy that among her friends when auto focus cameras came out in 1988. I made it my mission to give my friends really good pictures of themselves, because I had a fast eye that could see when they were in one of their most representative and most endearing expressions. The camera was fast enough to capture the fleeting expression before it got away. It was stunning for my friends to see what they really looked like. I hope you have that experience of seeing how much more beautiful you are than you would know from your experience with bad pictures. Good for you for taking control of this issue.

Truly, laugh out loud.

Your Animapolis is wow! That tie loves that design.
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Thank you so much, Cordy, I feel honored.
 
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