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I own probably dozens of scarves, because I am forever suffering from throat infections (cf my story about having tonsilitis three times, and my mother never letting me have them out, therefore developping fear of the NHS which is actually still to this day stopping me from going down to the clinic and getting my bronchitis looked at before it develops into touring pneumonia.)

My favourite ones are the tacky psuedo-indian ones with the vague paisley patterns and the silver threads woven into them. I have about eight of those, in every colour of the psychedelic rainbow. The original lot, which I bought in Africa decomposed after about five years of steady wearing, so my current lot were bought 4 for $1 at G&G EVERYTHING ONE DOLLAR BARGAIN STORES in Green Point.

My sock drawer is forever over-spilling and has no organisation whatsoever. It also contains knickers, bras, petticoats and naked polaroids of my ex boyfriend.

kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I make them

Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a navy one and a green one but I don't wear them alot anymore cos they don't look nice with the clothes I have, also I have a parka and it's pretty warm by itself.

Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not a scarf to be had -- then again, consider where I live and all.

As for socks, there is no specific drawer; rather they are comfortably wedged in between the band shirts in several drawers.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

i saw a really cute girl with a scarf on saturday.

i do not have a sock drawer. i do not have a drawer for clothes. most often with my socks, i just leave them in the laundry bin after they're clean, so i have a clean bin and a dirty bin

ron (ron), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Round these parts there are lot of girls who wear scarves which look hand-knitted, but aren't (not all of them anyway). You know, the woollen ones which are all different colours, like the one worn by Tom Baker in Dr. Who only on a smaller scale.

MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have lots of winter scarves, one of which was knitted by my bf's sister and is very pink and fragile looking. I have some non-winter scarves too but I never wear them - just use them in decorating.

As for my sock drawer, it is crazy. I have to use all my strenght to shut the drawer because it's totally crammed with socks, panties, and bras. I am both a sock and underwear addict. It's out of control.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have one and I'm always wearing it becuz if i don't i'll get a cold.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scarves = classic! Everybody should have a few. Ladies should have lots; the silky kind are so chic when worn as headwraps.

teeny (teeny), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

What doid you think of the picture Mr Hester?

Graham (graham), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

would you believe it, hotmail is one of the things that the IT trolls here block! I'm going to have to wait until I get home to let you know I'm afraid.....

MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have two and a half genuine, hand-knitted by me, scarves. One of them is about 4 metres long. One is about half a metre wide. The third will possible be finished in time for July next year. But for all their flaws, I love them. I also have non-home-made scarves in plain black, black and grey stripes and a bluey green pattern. (The hand-knitted ones are striped red/green/cream and blue/purple.)

Archel (Archel), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scarves are a bit rubbish, they always end up being blown about or screwed up at the bottom of your bag.

jel -- (jel), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have many scarves. I love them. My favorite one at the moment is an angora scarf that is pink, mint green and brown.

Mandee, Monday, 11 November 2002 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait, can Angora even be knitted? I just realized it may be some other soft wooly thing, not angora. Oh, it doesn't matter anyway.

Mandee, Monday, 11 November 2002 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Scarves are a bit rubbish, they always end up being blown about or screwed up at the bottom of your bag. "

not true, they are quite useful for plugging up the neck hole of your jacket and keeping the cold out in the winter, if you wear them correctly.

g (graysonlane), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, but over here it doesn't get cold anymore.

jel -- (jel), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a Celtic scarf, an AFC Wimbledon scarf and a St Pauli scarf. I am a monomaniac and it hurts.

Dave B (daveb), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

nelson has a scarf but i do not.

gareth (gareth), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just crocheted myself a new scarf, it's aqua with fringes and about 9' long. I also made one for my friend which is muted green with brown and beige fringe (he likes wearing unobtrusive colours). I also made a plain white scarf, and before any of these was a plain black scarf made from yarn unravelled from a knitted black bag my babysitter made me when I was small. I never used the bag because it was too stretchy to carry anything heavy in, so instead of throwing it out I decided to make it into something new! and that is how my scarf making mania came about. THE END

Poppy (poppy), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have two manx tartan scarves, one coarse weave one fine. I lurid tartan; blue, purple, green, white, brown, yellow and red all feature.

Ed (dali), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have two silk scarves one thick slubby blue and one filmy printed plum/black/white.

isadora (isadora), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Poppy, crocheting is cool! I want to crochet the new kind of scarf I've seen around that looks like it's made of those granny afghan squares connected by black and with the multicolor fringe.

My scarves:

a Lindsey tartan cashmere scarf
a stripey florescent orange and pink wool scarf
a navy green and maroon fictional school scarf
a silk twill scarf with Persian hussairs on it
an orange pleated silk scarf with Andalusian horses on it
a celery colored silk pocket square with a tiny repeating camel pattern on it
a chiffon scarf with tiny multicolored pattern on it

I went through a phase when all I wanted was a perfectly square white chiffon scarf with navy polka dots on it. I think I bought one like this for my grandmother but then I couldn't find one for myself. People tried to buy me ones but the dots would be wrong or the shape wasn't right or it would be white on navy, so I gave up.

I don't really wear scarves much anymore. Except for the warm scarves, I haven't worn any of these scarves in the past year except one of the silk ones that I sometimes wear as a belt with a denim skirt.

You can never have too many scarves or belts or shoes or sunglasses or hats or . . . (even Amanda de Cadanet can remember the word "accessories")

felicity (felicity), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scarves: 1 black cashmere
1 black wool/angora
1 pink plaid cashmere
1 camel plaid cashmere (bad Burberry knockoff)
1 black mohair
1 snow leopard print silk
1 magenta morning glories print silk
1 blue Provencal print silk
1 black-and-white bamboo print silk
1 lavender-and-green fox print silk
1 keyboard-themed print silk
1 beer-themed print silk

I don't wear any of these very much.

Sock drawer: left one-third (most approximately) for socks; right two-thirds for tights/pantyhose.

j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

ooh, pink plaid cashmere, pretty.

felicity (felicity), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a gray wool scarf for plugging up my neck hole like wot g sez

Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sock drawer = absolute chaos. I don't like wearing them much, other than with Doc Martens, anyway.

Scarves = 1 pale blue skinny 6' long one that I always wear, 1 fringed white acrylic one, and 1 thick, bright red, rib knit one- which I love, but it's never cold enough to wear it out here.

lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 05:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...
http://www.imagemagician.org/images/digibeet/lammetje.jpg

drawing of my baby blue scarf that I made last year when I bought it, I'll maybe wear it this year again, so.


erik, Saturday, 7 December 2002 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

i lost my favourite scarf. it made me feel special. : - (

doom-e, Saturday, 7 December 2002 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

scarf from belgian designer raf simons...you can not wear this in the streets can you?

http://www.boilermag.it/albums/RafSimons/aah.jpg

erik, Saturday, 7 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have one scarf. it is light grey wool. no patterns.

I recently threw out all of my socks (they were all quite old) and bought new ones, so I can tell you exactly what I have:
6 pr. thin black socks
6 pr. thick black socks
3 pr. thick charcoal socks
the socks are paired but not organized, as there is no need for them to be.

Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 7 December 2002 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

One striped earth-toned wool scarf; not too attractive, not too ugly, but warm.
Socks are mainly chaos.

webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 7 December 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten months pass...
dear fashion gurettes:
i need to impress a european girl by wearing a nice scarf.

it needs to go with a dark blue jacket and a brown cordouroy jacket.

i am in the world capitol of scarves, so any color or combination of colors will be easy to come by, i think.

so what colors? what sizes? what fabrics?

also, can someone point me to a easy-to-understand demonstration of how to best and most fashionably wear a scarf? so far i've been getting by with an indifferent wrap-around.

sincerely,

frost in translation

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

Um. I don't have an answer for that, am. But I do have a grey scarf that is twice as long as I am tall which my bandmate knitted for me. So there.

Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

Are you for real, am?

oops (Oops), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

I double up my scarf and then I put it around my neck, and put the ends through the loop. I think if your date requires any more complicated display of scarfmanship then she can just fuck right off.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

The only good part of Le Divorce was about scarves.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

scarfsmanship!

oops (Oops), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

I have an awesome orange one.

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

I have a black one that looks like everybody else's. I think amateurist should get a stiff wool one in some color that goes with both. Bright red or light gray?

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha like I know what the fuck I am talking about! erik digibeet to thread immediately!!!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link

i have decided i need a nice scarf

mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

that loop method is great then the wind doesnt blow your scarf away. improtant in chicago though i don't knonw that this is the capital of scarves, my nicest is one that soemone brought mef from scotland. but i knit ones too taht are cool.

JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 25 October 2003 06:58 (twenty years ago) link

you shd use a scarf sitffened by wire so it stands out behind you and looks as if you're battling yr way thru a hurricane to see yr honey. who will be flattered by yr dauntless heroism in the face of extreme weather, just to see her/him, and - if the imposture becomes known - secretly moved by yr passion and cute inventiveness

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 October 2003 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

losing scarves is something I'm good at.

my latest one is greyish black woollen (sp?) scarf. I need a good loop method too.

amt should get a wool 'twee' scarf, which means bright colours.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 25 October 2003 08:18 (twenty years ago) link

bah i lost my k-cool stripey scarf tonite at the andrew wk/joan jett show :(

geeta (geeta), Saturday, 25 October 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link

i'll ask jj if she saw it when she wz cleaning up after the show

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 October 2003 08:29 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~edr4r/Elvis/ELVIS/scarf%201970s.jpg

oops (Oops), Saturday, 25 October 2003 08:33 (twenty years ago) link

I too am an Oxford-type person, and I own one scarf - an Oxford Utd scarf. Although the idea was for me to buy a load of scraves, it just hasn't worked out liek that - they're either too pretenscious, or too girly. Scarves are a bit like umbrellas - they're very English, and half eccentic, half cool.

Saying that, I have LOADS of umbrellas.

Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 25 October 2003 10:10 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...
it's so long! it wraps around a million times.

thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

nice!

jed_ (jed), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Mmmmm scarves. I like the pale blue in that scarf!

I really want a pale, pale gray cashmere ribbed scarf that's about 8" wide, but I haven't found one in stores. I take that back, I haven't found any at prices I'm willing to pay in stores.

lyra (lyra), Friday, 9 December 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
Okay, so right now I'm wearing my scarf in that modern like it's a tie way. I feel stupid, and rightly so.

jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I still wear a store bought scarf even though I've knit tons for others. I feel stupid. (i do wear my own hat/mittens though.)

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I still wear a store bought scarf even though I've knit tons for others. I feel stupid.

Hah! Sam, I do the same thing. I've only knit myself about 3 scarves, and about 30 for other people. I feel like such a fake, wearing a MACHINE-KNIT scarf. Oh well. It's a nice color.

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't wear usually winter scarves myself, and yet I knit them for other people. There's no reason to feel stupid about it; you're just selfless, right?!

I do have two cool hand-knit "fashion" scarves made from interesting fibers - one my MIL made for me; the other she gave me the fiber for and I did myself. (The one I did myself the brand is Galaxy and it is made in Italy. It's viscose, rayon and acrylic - sort of a lovely combination of rose, glue, black and metallic gold).

Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

glue?

M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm horrible about actually sewing/knitting things myself. all of my own projects go on the backburner while I make gifts. i enjoy foisting my handmade items on unwilling loved ones.

I briefly thought of unraveling my own target-bought red chenille scarf and reknitting it but the fiber looked cheap and unfun to knit.

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm way too selfish to knit.

Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Knittis is great! It gives you something to do with your hands. It is also fun to have people come up to you and be impressed, even when you are knitting something super simple. (Like say, a scarf...)

Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

knitting has obsessed me for more than a year now. I hope it lasts a lifetime.

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

All my scarfs (and hats) are hand knit. They are much warmer than the store boughts.

tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I looooove watching people knit on the train, but I don't favor winter scarves because standard ones are never big enough for the babushka wrap-around that is my excuse to never wear a stocking cap. Shawls, that's where it's at.

Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 10 February 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I got discouraged from crocheting scarves, because the yarn ends always end up coming out of my crochet no matter how carefully I try to weave them in after. So now I have a storebought plain black scarf and a pink fake-burberryish one and a light blue one.

I still like crochet though so I'm thinking about making a scarf from green/lilac/blue yarn I have and hiding the yarn ends in some fringe.

Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 10 February 2007 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

just got two colorful striped scarves (big enough to work as shawls or whatever too) of delightfully fine cotton---one orange, and one blue & green. $5 apiece! Sort of in this vein:
http://66.235.181.27/subdomain/bizdir.indianyellowpages.com/dynamic-files/bc-other/83382/6736.jpg

emilys. (emilys.), Sunday, 11 February 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

ctrl-f passantino

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mi-mi/315084904/

caek, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link

River Island: true kings of scarf retail.

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link

ctrl-f passantino

OK you're gonna think I'm lying, or creepy, or something, but after scrolling about 3/4 of the way down this page, THOSE PRECISE WORDS IN THAT ORDER crept into my mind, and I was in fact going to post them here and now barring an appearance from Dom. Whew. Maybe I've been fully assimilated?

Just got offed, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK I'd been having such an *awesome* day as well

now my pride and joy is lost, presumably left on the floor of the indoor cricket training facility

Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link

probably if I go back there tomorrow it will have been repossessed and I will enter a period of mourning

Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link

YAY it has been recovered!

this means a lot

Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Thursday, 2 April 2009 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link

feel-good story of the morning. very pleased fur you.

N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 2 April 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link

I had a loony panic coming out of a club t'other week when I thought I'd lost the scarf my mother knitted for me. Turned out I'd stuffed it through the sleeves of my jacket to preclude the possibility of this happening. Ended happily.

N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 2 April 2009 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link

<3 scarf redemption stories

Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Thursday, 2 April 2009 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link

three years pass...

I need a new "nice" scarf but I keep looking at ones that I can't afford:

http://www.drakes-london.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/517x579/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/x/fx01.12050.002_m.jpg

http://www.drakes-london.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/515x579/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/j/c/jc01.12069.010_m.jpg

Anyway, the reason I need a new one is that I keep losing them so spending any moderate amount of money is probably a bad idea.

ILM Communication (seandalai), Sunday, 2 December 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link

ten years pass...

Fuck scarves

calstars, Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link


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