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Yasser Arafat neck scarves - What do you think ?

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FoghornLeghorn · 31/08/2006 08:33

This is how Cod described them yesterday.
Was thinking of buying one at the weekend, looked lovely on a model in Oasis but just not sure I could pull off the whole preppy look.

What do you think ?

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redbull · 31/08/2006 08:35

what are they???

MaloryTowersIsSlimAndChic · 31/08/2006 08:35

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ocd · 31/08/2006 08:36

they are for sixth formers only

MaloryTowersIsSlimAndChic · 31/08/2006 08:37

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ocd · 31/08/2006 08:41

very
rememebr those ones wiht glitter thread int hema dn tassles

MaloryTowersIsSlimAndChic · 31/08/2006 08:43

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MrsBadger · 31/08/2006 08:50

b&w checked Yasser type - NO

any other description of scarf - yesyesyes

I have many

ocd · 31/08/2006 08:50

they aer super cheap in france arent they
i do like my fake fur one i got years ago in monsoon
its kind of juts a V shcape and one end ticjs throught hte other

MrsFio · 31/08/2006 08:52

they are cheap in all the hippy shops in canterbury
it has been a student look down here for well over a year

MrsBadger · 31/08/2006 08:53

good lord, are those furry things back?
we used to have one in our dressing up box when I was little. Should dig it out...

[strokes sea-blue silk scarf from honeymoon in Egypt]

expatinscotland · 31/08/2006 09:13

NO!

They remind me of terrorism.

MaloryTowersIsSlimAndChic · 31/08/2006 09:16

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expatinscotland · 31/08/2006 09:24

I love scarves, pashminas and shawls. Don't get me wrong, but those check ones just remind me of awful things.

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FoghornLeghorn · 31/08/2006 09:26

I mean the sort that Grace from Big Brother wore a few times, as much as I dislike her, I quite liked the look.

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MrsBadger · 31/08/2006 09:56

aha, in a 50s stylee
well, I've never managed it without looking like either I'm hiding an Adam's apple / vampire puncture / lovebite or I'm an air hostess. Think you need a very long neck.

good luck...

WelshBoris · 31/08/2006 09:58

Some girl in work wears all black and a leopard print neck scarf

EVERY SODDING DAY

Always black

Always the scarf

She thinks she looks tres chic

I think she looks like Bet Lynch and Morticias love child

moondog · 31/08/2006 09:59

Hmm,they have a certain panache as worn by elderly Kurdish gents also sporting voluminous khakhi trousers and firing off rounds at large village weddings (am not joking..)

However,when sported by pasty Hampshire girls called Trish,'tis not quite the same.

CountessDracula · 31/08/2006 10:01

god not these again

My uncle was working in Saudi and brought them for us in the 80s or was it the 70s even? I hated them then and i still do

themoon66 · 31/08/2006 10:26

Agree with ExPat... You'll look like a suicide bomber terrorist. Don't do it. And if you do, then don't wear a rucksack or a police marksman may 'take you out'.

moondog · 31/08/2006 10:26

lol
(in nervous bad taste sort of way)

CurrantBun · 31/08/2006 10:46

Hideous. And that's all I have to day about that.

southeastastra · 31/08/2006 10:47

they remind me of foreign exchange students in the 80s

bundle · 31/08/2006 10:47

Ok in 1979.

Fashion felony in 2006.

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FoghornLeghorn · 31/08/2006 10:48

OK then.
I'm too young to remember them first time round you see

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MrsFio · 31/08/2006 10:49

we got a khaki one sent by accident to us, along with a waterproof camo jacket

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