The other day I mentioned that I consider scarves to be one of my wardrobe workhorses. Well, I should have been more specific because the real stars of my scarf wardrobe? Silk scarves.
I don’t know how many of you wear silk scarves on a regular basis, but I promise you: once you go silk…umm… you won’t go back to non-silk.* Silk is cool in summer and warm in winter, soft against your skin, knots beautifully and won’t come undone halfway through the day like so many polyester fabrics do, always drapes beautifully and, like linen, gets those expensive looking wrinkles. Plus, you get to spend the day wearing a silk scarf, and there’s nothing shabby about that. Anything that makes you look a little closer to this is good in my book:
I’ve never paid more than $1.00 for any of my silk scarves, and you’d be amazed at how many you can find in thrift stores with a little looking. I’ll often just run my hand along all the scarves and pick out the silk ones by feel.
This weekend I scored big time and thrifted 5 silk scarves for $0.50 each. Meet the newest additions to my scarf drawer:
Kelly Green Giant Square Scarf
Peacock Blue Honeycomb Print Scarf. Why, yes, the pattern does say “Dior.”
Royal Blue With Kelly Green Polka Dots
Navy Blue, Cream, Brown and Black Patterned Scarf (already worn here)
Orange, Peach, Pink and Cream Vera Scarf
*I tried to come up with a clever rhyme for how much you’ll love silk scarves, but the best I could do was: once you go silk, you won’t bilk and avoid getting more silk, or: once you go silk, you won’t tolerate people of the ilk who don’t wear silk, and it was just getting too wordy. So, in conclusion, they’re awesome. The end.
Merciful heavens, what a haul! Does your thrift store always have top-notch finds, or was this a fluke?
It always seems to be feast or famine; luckily I got there just in time to glut myself.
as a fellow scarf-ette, I hope you can sense my emphatic head nodding with you. Silk ones are the pinnacle for loose, soft, warm, scarf wearing (and your finds are magnifico!). Fantastic point about the expensive looking wrinkles – I never really thought about it, but that’s so true!
I do, my dear, have to interject one point against silk scarves (please don’t hate me!). Sometimes, my desired scarf look for the day is something a bit more architectural – a cozy cowl up around my chin, for example – and unless you pile on 2 or 3 silk scarves, you just can’t get that kind of volume without going cotton, cashmere, or knit.
Oh, I’m all for cotton, cashmere, etc. My argument was mostly against all the polyester scarves out there – ugh. And don’t knock piling 2 or 3 silk scarves together, I dig it.
ah, point taken. And there’s no knocking on my part, I love a good scarf pile. (Besides, a few silk scarves tied together would make a very effective weapon … )
Very good point. I hadn’t thought about that before, but you could throw them in your opponent’s face to distract them with pretty colors, then tie them up, and possibly dangle them over a dangerous precipice to teach them that final lesson. Perhaps it should just be a rule that everyone carry silk scarves with them, for safety purposes.
The blue one with green dots looks like a globe balled up like that. And that makes me happy. That is all.
My mother sent me some of her old scarves this summer, and I really ought to wear them more often. I don’t know why I feel like they’re more of a colder-weather item, because as you illustrated, they’re not. I love that you’re featuring accessories as wardrobe workhorses, too – I feel the same way about some of mine as well.
And that orange, pink and cream scarf is gorgeous! I have such scarf envy!
Next time you go scarf thrifting, take me with you!
It’s a date!
My favorite silk scarf? The RAD London one you gave me!