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

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This is a great topic. I learn so much when everybody gets into the details about what does and does not work for them and why. I am not ready to rehome my errors yet, so advice is welcome, but if all you have is sympathy, I'll take that too.

This one I still hope I can reclaim: Au de la cinq mers, in gold, black, and what I hoped was a wine color but is oranger than I thought. The pics in this current ebay listing get the colors about right, though you can't see that there are some highlights that are traffic-cone orange, yiikes:

I wanted a regal scarf, and it is regal. But I didn't know yet that a black border gets lost in my black wardrobe (thanks again for that insight, ElainePG) and that I prefer a pattern that goes all the way to the hem.

I thought either the gold wouldn't be too bad on me or -- ha ha -- that I could diminish or hide it (there's your "WTH was I thinking???" Hide it with what? A false beard?). But the beauty of this one is in the wonderful detail, and if I scrunch it up to hide the gold, then it's just a black border with some mustardy bits and what's the point?

I do get compliments on the details when I wear it in a draped bias fold that shows off the ships and fish and fabrics, but it's hard to make myself wear it when I have so many others that look better on me.

bwahahaaa - Belphoebe - how you make me laugh!
I struggle with those humongous borders too, and i MUCH prefer the patterns that go all the way to the hem. And I love love love a contrast hem.

I'm in the process of re-homing some of my scarves - I sold several quickly but the rest are languishing, and sighing lonely sighs on the top of my dresser. I'm wearing one I thought I wanted to re-home but now that I'm wearing I think 'Well maybe not just yet sweetie, but the rest of you are outta here!'.
<Now they're cringing and I hear some weeping>

 

[Cookiefiend]

Sympathy for your plight, @Belphoebe , and you made me laugh out loud with your comment about "hiding" the gold with a false beard. This wouldn't be a good scarf for me, either, for precisely the same reasons, yet I could see myself being tempted by it too.

It might be good in a very wide bias fold and then the ends tucked into the vee of an open suit jacket, if you ever wear scarves that way. All the lovely details would be up around your face, the borders would be hidden, and more gold than orange would show.

Or you could bite the bullet and re-home it.

I think we could all use some pointers on hiding those borders!
I'll try a wide bias fold tomorrow!

 

[ElainePG]

I think we could all use some pointers on hiding those borders!
I'll try a wide bias fold tomorrow!

Didn't we have a theme in the past year or so about hiding borders? Maybe we need to do it again! I could definitely use some tips!

 

[Cookiefiend]

Wearing Cliquetis today, possible rescue from the re-homing pile:

I really like the color of this but I hate that great big gold thing in one corner - I’m sure it has an official name but it makes me think of a sporran and my very dear Jamie Fraser is nowhere in sight so it doesn’t do much for me. [emoji56][emoji6]

 

[Belphoebe]

Sympathy for your plight, @Belphoebe , and you made me laugh out loud with your comment about "hiding" the gold with a false beard. This wouldn't be a good scarf for me, either, for precisely the same reasons, yet I could see myself being tempted by it too.

It might be good in a very wide bias fold and then the ends tucked into the vee of an open suit jacket, if you ever wear scarves that way. All the lovely details would be up around your face, the borders would be hidden, and more gold than orange would show.

Or you could bite the bullet and re-home it.

Ha -- I was just thinking the same thing about your Giverny: that, beautiful as it is, it wouldn't suit me either, for the very same reasons you describe. I think my trouble with the gold is similar to yours with the yellow. I don't wear my scarves as a vee neck much, but it's worth a shot.

I do adore how the Giverny looks the way you've tied it, though, which highlights the details beautifully, so I may try that tie too (possibly with ivory). I also love your pairing it with burgundy(?), which highlights the color in the flowers and leaves. Maybe somebody here will know a magic color that will help our skin tones get along with our difficult yellows?

 

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26 November 2017 WHAT WAS I THINKING? The scarf you just don’t like to wear… put it on for advice on whether to keep or re-home it

This is a new theme -- I thought it might be fun to talk about fails instead of triumphs for a change. I think we all have scarves that we pick up from time to time and just put back in the drawer because they don't "spark joy" (as Marie Kondo, the cleaning guru, would say). This week I'll show my "Bottom Five," or if you prefer, my "Top Five Unlkeables."

I'll show you the scarf and share what I was thinking when I got it, then tell you what bugs me and what I learned from making myself try it on.
(Comment if you like, but it's not essential.)
Here we go:
Carrosserie by Philippe Ledoux [1976]
One of my early acquisitions for which I paid too much, reasoning that it was a "collectable." The silk is thick and rich and it feels wonderful. The flat photo shows mostly the center of the scarf so you can see the detail (and title)View attachment 3890540 I love the brown, but this shade of yellow doesn't do me any favors -- it actually scared me off yellow at all for several years.

Couvee d'Hermes by Cathy Latham [1994]
I bought this one because of the detail on the eggs -- I love going through an artist's work and finding which scarf each design came from. I haven't done it with this one because it's not all Cathy Latham, so it's really difficult. The eggs are a little too large to show very many of them and the brown border is a bit wider than I'd like.
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The brown top hides the brown border a little better but the light green top is surprisingly nice with the scarf. This is a prettier shade of yellow for me than Carrosserie -- the peachy shades look considerably better on me. I guess I might wear this one after all (maybe at Easter, though the colors aren't very spring-like).

Lesson learned: Brown and yellow scarves don't really make me very happy. Your turn.

I like the Couvee on you, very pretty design and looks good esp with the brown top. I think you know how to minimise the border if need be.

 

[Belphoebe]

bwahahaaa - Belphoebe - how you make me laugh!
I struggle with those humongous borders too, and i MUCH prefer the patterns that go all the way to the hem. And I love love love a contrast hem.

I'm in the process of re-homing some of my scarves - I sold several quickly but the rest are languishing, and sighing lonely sighs on the top of my dresser. I'm wearing one I thought I wanted to re-home but now that I'm wearing I think 'Well maybe not just yet sweetie, but the rest of you are outta here!'.
<Now they're cringing and I hear some weeping>

No no, they are not weeping -- they are grumpy uncooperative teenagers who just heard you suggest that they can get their driver's licenses soon, and they're all, "We're outta here!"

Too funny about the sporran (and thank you for teaching me that word!). We should start a support group for people who don't look their best in giant gold things and large borders.

 

[papertiger]

Wearing Cliquetis today, possible rescue from the re-homing pile:
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I really like the color of this but I hate that great big gold thing in one corner - I’m sure it has an official name but it makes me think of a sporran and my very dear Jamie Fraser is nowhere in sight so it doesn’t do much for me. [emoji56][emoji6]

I don't know what it is either but 'urban hardware' is very on trend

Isn't it funny when we get something into our head, we can't stop seeing it.

 

[papertiger]

A@abq2atl
I don't do yellow and brown, so those 2 don't appeal to me.
Mors et gourmettes remix.
Here is my least- loved scarf. I bought It early on, encouraged by DH and SA. Although DH now says it is his least favorite scarf of mine also. I think I may have worn it once.
For me, the colors just feel too bright. I can easily imagine this scarf on some of the other ladies here.
@Joannadyne and maybe @Cordeliere

After I bought this, I later bought the same design in the ciel/ blue CW, and have worn that one a lot!
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I can see the same two rocking it too. The way you've styled is is really cool and works 100% but that's alot of pink (my mother would love it too!)

 

[papertiger]

Another Brides Fleuries ... the first scarf I have let go from my small collection. Love the design, but the bright (almost optic) white is just too stark a contrast with my skin tone and with my wardrobe which is soft blues and grays. Lesson learned - just being beautiful isn't enough, it needs to also go with me and my closet

Totally agree, beautiful scarf though

 

[papertiger]

Another for the "What Was I Thinking?" theme...
Suite et Poursuite 70 design by Cyrille Diatkine [2015]
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Wow, talk about TOO BRIGHT... I grabbed this one off the Bay the first time I saw the pattern because 1) 70s were being discontinued, 2) I hadn't seen any other colorways, and 3) I sort of liked the idea of cassis and orange for the holidays (I got it in December, and the circles reminded me of Christmas balls and the green of holly). I don't own anything in cassis, but it does go with fuchsia and other red-purples, which were on my mind at the time. I don't wear it often, but it's a vintage silk 70 and the two-point tie in the second pic keeps it close to my neck, where I see it as a little festive highlight -- I think a larger scarf presence could be too much like a statement of some kind. (I do wear twillys and gavroches more than I used to, so maybe that's why it's getting a second chance as a smaller-looking scarf with this knot.) I still like the pattern, and I thought the CSGM was TDF in white and blue. I may get another color someday.

Bright gavs and 70s work, and I think this works. I have to say I have orange-free whole months, the shade has to b so spot-on too

 

[papertiger]

While we're on the subject of orange, which I do like when it's paired with the right colors:
Premieres Mains by Zoé Pauwels [1990 design with reissues]
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I've talked about this scarf before, how I chose it for the center designs and ignored the orange, then tried every way I could to hide the border (despite the fact that the contrast hem is lavender!) It's a kind of a love-it-or-hate-it scarf, I find.
Then I found it in another color, and the blue border and peach hem goes much better with what I wear...but it's a little dull compared to the other one (probably the brown/beige center)
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I'm pretty happy with the blue, but I kind of miss that lavender contrast hem -- again, the two-point knot to the rescue:
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Maybe I'm not quite ready to give either of them up...

Seriously, the orange version looks fabulous on you

 

[papertiger]

This is a great topic. I learn so much when everybody gets into the details about what does and does not work for them and why. I am not ready to rehome my errors yet, so advice is welcome, but if all you have is sympathy, I'll take that too.

This one I still hope I can reclaim: Au de la cinq mers, in gold, black, and what I hoped was a wine color but is oranger than I thought. The pics in this current ebay listing get the colors about right, though you can't see that there are some highlights that are traffic-cone orange, yiikes:

I wanted a regal scarf, and it is regal. But I didn't know yet that a black border gets lost in my black wardrobe (thanks again for that insight, ElainePG) and that I prefer a pattern that goes all the way to the hem.

I thought either the gold wouldn't be too bad on me or -- ha ha -- that I could diminish or hide it (there's your "WTH was I thinking???" Hide it with what? A false beard?). But the beauty of this one is in the wonderful detail, and if I scrunch it up to hide the gold, then it's just a black border with some mustardy bits and what's the point?

I do get compliments on the details when I wear it in a draped bias fold that shows off the ships and fish and fabrics, but it's hard to make myself wear it when I have so many others that look better on me.

OMG, how can you let that go?

I know, I know, I know, answer above but still OMG

 

[papertiger]

I made a mistake when I bought (from a lovely reseller... it definitely was NOT her fault!) this colorway of Giverny. The black border is wider than I'd like, and disappears against my black outfits, so I generally tie it as shown below. But then that puts all this yellow against my face, which only works if I wear a ton of makeup. As you can see in the photo, I try to minimize the yellow by wearing a contrasting necklace, but I don't think it does too much.

So the scarf ends up sitting unloved in the drawer, poor thing, and I really ought to re-home it; perhaps now that I've confessed my sins here, I'll do just that!
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I can see why black borders don't often work, I felt the same about a recent try-on at H.

It's a beautiful scarf and someone will love it. I don't think scarves should have to be so much hard work and you have so many wonderful silks.

 

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Fairytales was one of the first scarves I bought. Here I’m modeling it as a 20something in nyc. Loved the colors and the design but it didn’t fit my wardrobe at all. Only scarf I’ve let go!

Confession, I never fell for that scarf (and I love fairytales, bought all 3 cws of Amis Pour la Vie). It's a huge hit with others though so somewhere it's giving someone a lot of pleasure.