hidding a multitude of sins

I used to wear scarves with every outfit for work but found them to be a nuisance when I retired and was at home. Now I’m known for my unusual necklaces. I love Jenni Murray’s style with a pashmina over her shoulder but it’s not suitable when you are doing the washing up!

ha ha humbert. you are so right about the pashmina over the shoulder look.
maybe jenni has hidden clips holding it in place. or maybe Velcro. its still not a feasible option when you are bleaching the loo or serving the gravy

I love scarves but rarely wear them as I can't get the hang of them. Some women look elegant and classy with them draped or tied. I just end up looking ridiculous.

I am short with disproportionately sized boobs and an avearge neck! A scarf, no matter how I wear it always accentuates the bits I wish to minimize! I can't do the draped pashmina either..they trail on the floir and trip me up. I go for a chunky necklace!!

I find that scarves draped round the neck are very useful for catching lumps of dropped food and thus preventing canteen medals on my teeshirts and frocks.

Oldgoat?! They are also good for keeping your curlers in place when out trekking on the high moors! And no, that’s not me (though the other one looks a bit like me!).

I wish I was brave enough to wear a headscarf like the queen. It's the only headgear that suits me.

It just doesn't seem to be acceptable these days.

petunia I once saw a girl have an Isadora moment with her long scarf, which flapped in the breeze and got caught by a passing car ? She was so, so lucky to survive!

A short neck means that scarves are no good for me. I always admire people that can wear them elegantly.

I empathise with the short neck, my chin is nearly on my chest, but I do love scarves and do wear them.
Pashminas are another story, I look like a russian grandmother bundled up against the cold.

I have so many scarves, short, wooly & practical (like me ), pashmina style to throw over your shoulder, takes effort to keep them in place so only for making an entrance, sparkly, long, light & floaty, the classic square ones, some have been gifts of silk or cashmere. I enjoy & wear them often as they brighten & lighten an outfit as I don't think I'm the right shape to wear those enormous modern very chunky necklaces that Theresa May & Prue Leith go in for. I can't resist looking at scarves when I pass them anywhere but tend to do it when alone now as OH always mumbles about having too many scarves and tries to urge me along!

gonegirl you are brave enough to do retro surely? ?

I used to have a huge bundle of chiffon scarves of every colour which matched whatever I wore. I loved them as they all had silver thread running through them, ----but I never ever knew what became of them ? Lost when moving perhaps ?
I'd use them for tying up my hair ( it was much thicker at the time ) as a sort of accessory to whatever I wore.
I still have scarves of every type but they now just sit in the drawer I have no reason to get decked out. Perhaps a small neckerchief for hiding a neck pouch would suffice.

I love scarves Never done the pashmina thing as never had one but I like them tied in the neck, as they disguise or detract from my not quite so pert boobs and my slightly shrinking neck

Oh Petunia what have you done? I am a self confessed scarfaholic, the mere mention of a new scarf causes great excitment so.....
Just skipped over to Amazon and ordered a purple one.
If it lives up to expectations then I'm sure a couple more may just pop into my basket

Way back in the 60s, when going to be introduced to my future MIL, I tied a wee chiffon scarf round my neck, as was the fashion at the time. That is why the first words she ever spoke to me were -"Oh Dear! Have you got a sore throat"

Like Gonegirl I really suit a headscarf, but more Audrey Hepburn than the Queen style. Now that I have given up all pretence of following fashion I happily and practically wear one if going out on a beezy or showery day.

I used to wear little headscarves in the 60s and 70s a la Audrey Hepburn (or so I thought!)

ha ha cherry tree. I hope you enjoy your new scarf. I may even take a wee look at amazon again. you can never have too many hats, scarves or gloves-according to patsy/Joanna lumley

My friend often wears a scarf and looks very elegant. I gave her a book on 100 ways to tie a scarf, once!

The only time I wear a scarf is when I'm in our sports car with the roof down. I like to think I resemble Grace Kelly but in reality, I'm more like Hilda Ogden.

I don't like wearing scarves otherwise, because I have a fear of being strangled!

I do not wear scarves, other than warm woolly ones inside a coat.

I have admired the scarf look, but to do it drives me mad, I drop food on it, it comes between me and anything I am doing, I cut it or sew it by accident when sewing and am always in danger of dragging it through a flame when cooking. I have narrow sloping shoulders and as soon as the scarf begins to unknot, it slides off my shoulders.

I will limit myself to admiring all you elegant ladies in scarves, while knowing better that to wear one myself.

KatyK & MOnica I'm with you, I love to see these beautiful scarves, wraps, pashminas but I just look silly however artistically I try to drape them.

I love scarves and have every colour in varying shades, in different fabrics. Wraps and pashminas are my favourites. As quirky as possible. Often from charity shops, boot sales. Many have been gifts.

I use them for all sorts. Putting flowers into my newly decorated porch I couldn’t find an appropriate vase. Don’t like glass vases. I had the appropriate size but not colour. Not to be beaten.... I got a suitable scarf and wrapped it around the vase securing it with suitably placed and hidden safety pins. Looks great.

In a bedroom I needed a pop of a particular shade of blue to balance the room. No bother, I used a very long scarf to make a fabulous bow at the end of the curtain pole. Perfect.

After a big scarf clear out I have about 50 that I can’t part with.

Oh and I do wear my scarves, all the time.

I like scarves and have umpteen - a treasured silk scarf must be 60 years old now!

However, I'm not very good with them, they never look very stylish.
They just look like scarves.

It's a strange word - scarf