A silk scarf is a good way to complete a tie-less look once the weather begins to turn cool. Not cashmere or wool mind you, but silk. Not quite warm enough for winter nor a fabric to sweat into in the heat of summer, silk is best in shoulder season (this advice also applies to silk suits, odd jackets and sweaters in addition to scarves, in my opinion). The best choices are non-directional patterns like polka dots or paisleys in colors that don't match.
Photo: Drake's
I'd been looking to add another silk scarf to my wardrobe this year and found one yesterday at Drake's London which, by the way, has an expanded line of autumn and winter offerings going up on its web site even as I write. I'll wear the Oyster model, pictured above, with a covert coat and the orange polka dot on navy scarf that it supercedes will assume new duties as a necktie replacement with tweed jackets and sweaters.
Fall is silk scarf season.
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A wonderful suggestion. I would very much like to wear a silk scarf during Autumn.
My first question would be, how would one tie a silk scarf? Is there a preferred approach for this?
You could tie it like a four-in hand. You could double it, put it around your neck and pull the ends through the loop. Or you could tie it like a day cravat. And that's no more than half of the possibilities.
Great post, Will. And the graphic is timely too. I am assuming the figure on the right represents Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who is instructing the local grave digger where to bury the body of the US taxpayer, recently deceased.
The scarf-wearing man pays no attention to the vicissitudes of markets until he has to sell the gardens to a developer in order to pay his tailor.
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