Sure will report back Bel - in the meantime you can tempt yourself by looking at the ads on the BM website! Ideally I should have bought and worn Les Cavaliers d'Or to present a Scarf on Site, but I simply can't bring myself to buy another goldie
Belphoebe - it is written in the stars - we are a match made in heaven - we are brownish twins on the Cavalcadour
I just love to take mine out and look at it -wearing it is another matter, being stiff and unyelding. I am unable to tie it properly apart from in a cowboy style, so scared stiff ((pun intended) of losing it when worn - still, it is my most prized scarf I think, or at least a close second to my beloved Les Grottes Lascaux.
We must indeed be scarf soulmates: every word of this -- cowboy style, taking it out to admire it, constantly afraid it will slide off and yet prizing it above almost all others -- could have come straight from my brain. Maybe I should copy you on the LGL: I do love it, and I don't know why I've been so There Can Be Only One about brown scarves.
Since we've clearly got this brain-connection thing going, it would be so lovely if you could beam your Scythians experience straight to my brain too. How about it?
Markova's scarf is wonderful, I wish I had it to wear with my funky muted reddish-brown-mauve top. Markova's scarf shows that there's brown and then there's Brown! Her brown has pretty undertones to it, it's not a flat soil color.
Isn't it great? I propose that if there's brown and
Brown, CaCdL might even be
BROWN. Mine is walnut-colored and reminds me of a musical instrument. It would look amazing with the top you describe -- if you can get it to behave, that is.
Some years scarves are stiffer than others -- I washed my Cavalcadour and like it much much better now that it's softer and easier to tie (and wear)!
Oh my goodness, did you actually wash the Cavalcadour Au Claire de Lune? I've been dying to know what happens to it. What happened to that strange parchment-papery texture and leathery sheen? Did any of it survive? I've handwashed other scarves of mine, but I'm in terror of even getting a drop of water on this one.
For those who don't know, CaCdL is in the "exceptional scarf" category -- it is also known as "the leather scarf," since it has that look. It has a weird, crispy texture that is the whole point of the scarf. Hermes's narrative is something about burying the silk underground by the light of the moon or some such. Whoever wrote it saw me coming a mile away, because I was half in love before I even saw it.
Anyway, it is delicate and stiff at the same time. Imagine a scarf made of the waxed paper you use for baking. It doesn't exactly drape, and if you tie it in a knot or put it through a scarf ring, it will crinkle up forever and never have that same leathery-wood sheen again . . . unless it really can be washed? is it true? and maybe ironed???
