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Scarves Scarf of The Day 2024 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?
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Today I'm again following the lead of our intrepid guest scarf mistress and chose a scarf that reflects biodiversity. The Gardens of Sintra in Portugal have plant species from all over the world, and they are organized by geographic areas according to their origins.
My scarf of the day is Jardin a Sintra. Many thanks to @HermesEchidna for her amazing leadership this week.
My scarf of the day is Jardin a Sintra. Many thanks to @HermesEchidna for her amazing leadership this week.
I love seeing close ups of details. Thank you.
I consider white or cream backgrounds challenging, but this really looks great on you. Well done.
Thank you, Snausages!
Perfect with your top!
Thank you so much, GloWW0rM,
Sooo pretty, Cookie!
Twins, RBH!
Thank you, Cordy!
These are all gorgeous @Living.la.vida.fifi and that VL slays me every time!
@Cookiefiend that looks marvelous on stripes AND on solids!
@Redbirdhermes beautiful foliage on the scarf and in the background
Delicious moussie @Awillow
Beautiful scarf / perfect cw for you. Interesting story!It’s snowing and that means I dress rough, too rough for scarves.
Archive of Les Ailes.
A Personal stem related scarf. The father of my children has a stem career. During our courting phase in college, he would invite me to go out, at night, and hunt for bugs of all kinds, including moths. He would have to collect and study them. So I can either wear this scarf and think of our hunting death days
Orrrr the much more acceptable thoughts of this being for science!
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WOW! Huge huge congratulations to you on your amazing score @FA73. You give me hope to find my grails with such serendipity one day. Twins with you on the cream birds! And, I bet we do have some common acquaintances in our circle.@HermesEchidna, I love, love your thorough, detailed, insightful, and enriching introductions on this week's theme. I thought I would have nothing to contribute as technology, engineering, and mathematics are foreign to me, but today's sub-theme, natural history, taxonomy, and biodiversity, are at the very center of my professional and personal life. I also very much enjoyed @EtsyBoss's display of primates on scarves (congratulations on your research and I bet we have a few acquaintances in common!).
Presenting yesterday's special (as in special edition!) scarf mail and my SOTD, a biological inventory of Singapore. I also have the blue one which I thought would be a forever placeholder because I never imagined getting my hand on the SE (now need to rehome because of the "no multiples" rule). This appeared at the Singapore branch of a French auction house over the holidays, a "buy-now" (below current retail price!!!) item, which sounded like "buy immediately" to me! So happy!
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I do not have that many biodiversity scarves and I was trying to figure out why this morning. I think it is because I also opt for a more poetic, whimsical style, rather than a classic illustrative one. More Shirley than Dallet, more Pythéas than Shackleton (but I'd gladly accept both, thank you very much!). Below are my Bengal tiger, South African proteas, and various birds. I am sure we can identify the species by going through Jeff Fisher's book on birds, with scientific names and history.View attachment 5932647View attachment 5932658
SOTD is Grande Théâtre Nouveau…. This would have been a better fit for the ‘architecture day’ but ah well. Also, brrrr!!!
Here are 2 scarfs that fit the STEM theme: From the Mens Collex - the 1st is Memoire Vive. This scarf represents a circuit board with the carriage & driver illustrated with dots. This scarf is silk & cotton blend, which although it creases easily is very comfortable to wear. Pls excuse selfies as I have just started to do them, my phone is cheap (really only for emergencies) & am crap at selfies. Sorry I couldn't find a flat photo off the internet - the scarf would be a welcome addition for an IT professional or an electrical engineer (male or female 
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Memoire Vive
Here is Des Chevaux Sous Le Capot, which according to Dr. Google translates as "Horses Under the Hood". It is full of mechanical gears & such. It is one of my favourite CSGMs and is atypical for the mens cashmere/silk as it is a 140 carre.
)Memoire Vive
Here is Des Chevaux Sous Le Capot, which according to Dr. Google translates as "Horses Under the Hood". It is full of mechanical gears & such. It is one of my favourite CSGMs and is atypical for the mens cashmere/silk as it is a 140 carre.
Thanks to @HermesEchidna for your thoughtful intro to today's biodiversity theme.
While reading about Carl Linnaeus I couldn't help but to be reminded about my L'Intrus scarf full of birds surrounded by theirscientific names French names. Sisters with many of you on this fabulous design!
Birds were what drew me to biology thanks to a teacher who was an avid birdwatcher and Audubon member. For a class assignment we had to spot 20 different birds for an "A" and I totally took that challenge to heart. Years later I met a guy who also liked birdwatching and he became my DH. We've been bird watching together for 30 years now.
One of our bird nerd specialties is trying to find birds whose genus and species names are the same, such as Sula sula for the Red-footed booby and the Pica pica, which is a magpie. There's a whole list of them here: http://www.birdwatching.com/tips/tautonyms.html
While reading about Carl Linnaeus I couldn't help but to be reminded about my L'Intrus scarf full of birds surrounded by their
Birds were what drew me to biology thanks to a teacher who was an avid birdwatcher and Audubon member. For a class assignment we had to spot 20 different birds for an "A" and I totally took that challenge to heart. Years later I met a guy who also liked birdwatching and he became my DH. We've been bird watching together for 30 years now.
One of our bird nerd specialties is trying to find birds whose genus and species names are the same, such as Sula sula for the Red-footed booby and the Pica pica, which is a magpie. There's a whole list of them here: http://www.birdwatching.com/tips/tautonyms.html
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A chemical engineer by training, my background is in oil & gas exploitation. The scarf is Geologie & contains various fossils of shells including an ammonite as the centre motif. This scarf was a grail of mine and took almost 10 years to track down. A reseller in my city found one but not in my preferred cw so we couldn't agree on a price - and she really wanted to keep it for herself since HER husband was a geologist (with vanity plates that said as such on their SUV - LOL). The condition of the 1st cw was listed as "good" & it had spots & pulls - but never-the-less I scooped it up. The 2nd one was pristine and had been issued for the 1980 Geological Congress in Paris.
Geologie
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