Has the 'scarf' had its day...

[Thrilled]

I may be the last to realise but the scarf really seems to be now rather passé. I have many that I would previously throw on with a blazer, t-shirt or jumper and feel fab. Having just been trawling through pin interest, every image that showed a 30 or 40 something wearing a scarf, just looked really dated.
It was such a great, easy accessory. Now what! Interesting jewellery, bags, the skinny scarf?

I don't think they've slipped off the radar - I see people wearing all kinds of scarves and looking fantastic in them

I don't think we'll really know until summer Sir - we're all too busy wearing them just to keep warm at the moment

About a million years ago I posted about "the scarf" and how awful it looked. I have so many scarves, both for winter or spring/autumn, but their only purposed is to keep my neck warm and look good doing it.

I still stand by the scarf as "finishing touch" as utter shite. Dreadful. It's up there with red and black combos for older ladies.

Possibly Flo

echt - please explain red and black combos for older ladies (I'm older and wear red with black and had no idea it was a 'thing" to do or to avoid.)

Also noticed that no one at the office where I work wears scarves anymore.

notagiraffe,I think that, as people have wildly differing tastes, it would be wrong to drop your red and black just because someone has an opinion on that combo on older ladies.

I shall be wearing scarves whenever I fancy it for the same reason .

Imo red and black is a combo that can work. If done carefully and with a lot of style.

Or else it reminds me of the red light district, Halloween or martial arts. Which aren't inherently negative associations imo. But... not styles I personally want to go for on most occasions.

Plus, I simply think that red and black together looks so...jarring. Emotionally jarring, outside a few setting, actually. For some weird reason.

Red is a very aggressive colour.

My daughter who is super stylish doesn't take after me has told me that winter scarfs are still very much in, but not so much the other type.

So, those scarfs you wear to hide your neck and other wobbly bits are old fashioned, but if it's a scarf worn for warmth, then OK.

I don't think the thread is about oversized scarves. More the chiffon type ones that are purely decorative.

Exactly.
Those oversized, warm, winter ones look great and I have seen loads of younger people wearing them.
It's those little floaty ones that are up for discussion.

Personally, I wouldn't get rid of them, because ten to one, give it a couple of years and they will come back in fashion and will be twice the price.

I've a horrible feeling I've said this already but I'm too lazy to check. Anyway I don't think those floaty, decorative scarves (not talking about chunky winter ones) do hide your neck. Ok correction: they don't hide mine. Even if I wrap the scarf right up to my eyeballs, it always slips down and somehow the sliver of neck that's revealed, looks far worse than the whole thing.

Plus it looks like you're apologising for your neck and I hate clothes that do that. (Must learn to apply the same thinking to my arms.)

I love scarves. They hide my stringy neck and wonky shoulders.

I had also noticed and been a bit bemused by the fact that lots of women seem to be wearing picnic blankets.

Yes I had a picnic blanket for Christmas. I'm unsure what to do with it though.

But I do wear mine for warmth nearly all year round. Including the floaty ones. At work the office is cold and a big floaty scarf does actually keep me much warmer than having my neck exposed. More appropriate for wearing indoors than a woolly outdoors one. Likewise in Spring and early Summer when weather is below 20 outside they keep me warm when a woolly scarf would be too hot/look ridiculous.

Can we post pictures for clarity??
This is the kind of thing I still wear

In or out?

@ChishandFips33

Seeing as these are the kind of scarves I like... I'll say 'in'.

Yay!
So...is it about the material? Mine aren't chunky otherwise I feel like this

I think we're talking about something like this:

I love the Becksondersgaard-style cotton scarves and will keep wearing mine regardless They are pretty nice, don't "pop", aren't polyester and look good with my other clothes, which are plain. I like clothes more than I like fashion and I only care about looking expensive!

This winter's tartan wool blanket scarves look at bit odd to me because they are worn draped either side of the neck and I don't see how they can be providing any neck warmth - not my generation, or problem, though...

I love red and black, but here in Melbourne it's become a sort of uniform for women of a certain age, i.e. 50+. And social group too now I think of it - middle class. This is not why I am wary of it, just an observation and says a lot about the places I go to.

Although it has to be better than the safe beiges, greys and pale blues that older people assumed in the day.

I'm 62.

floisme you're right, there was definitely a point where jeans were very much not fashionable. I can remember doing one of those "how cool are you?" () type quizzes in a teen magazine in the 90s and one of the questions was about whether or not you wear jeans! Not sure why that's stuck in my head but it has!

Clary, those to me are not what I am thinking of- they are what I would see as the European version! I will try and find a pic. Interestingly, as others have said, although I have quite a lot of scarves (even though I have a short neck and they don't really suit me!) I have lately been wearing necklaces instead, without really thinking about it.

I am picturing these scarves:

i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fPUAAOSwGvhULPVa/s-l300.jpg

I don't think young women have ever worn them. I've always thought of them as for middle-aged women. I see plenty of women wearing them at work. Scarves for warmth, however, are different.

The 3 25 year olds in my office wear them most days.