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've been out today and bought a lovely big scarf on the back of this thread!

I wear the classic long think wool style scarf when it's cold, but can't get on with accessory scarves. Never have. They do nothing for me. So although i've got a couple (one is big, lovely duck egg blue with coloured butterflies) i've always put them on and taken them straight off again.

However reading this has made me hanker after a proper big warm blanketty scarf and this morning i found this one in H&M for £7. Massive and soft and v.warm
www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.0313355006.html

Oh i meant to add - 3 of my DDs are late teens/early 20s and they all love a scarf. Yes, mostly the big chunky ones nowadays. They sort of sling it round and it drapes effortlessly looking cool.

Sorry SirChenjin - that's what I get for skim reading a thread 😉

They've not had their day for me!

A couple of years ago I invested threw silly money at in a lovely grey scarf by Acne. It doubles up as a cape in this kind of weather and looks lovely with almost every coat I wear. It is the most insulated yet stylish thing I won and I have no regrets, haha!

On warmer days I have an old grey cashmink style thing from john lewis which i like to wrap around and knot at the front.

Summer I wear little silk (slim) neckties occasionally and when going for a night out often a long slinky black satin scarf wound round once like a sort of choker.

Love them!

own not won. (i wish!)

lisam - no probs!

Sir it's great when people come on a thread like this an offer an opinion but when your opinion is simply, 'if you like it wear it, if you don't like it don't, it's somewhat pointless and more than a little patrionsing.
Your comment that this thread doesn't come under 'style and beauty' and is 'current high street fashion' is condescending and mean. Is high street fashion not good enough for you? What hasn't escaped my notice is your aggression on a S&B thread about scarves!
I've never worn bootcut jeans, so have no idea what you are talking about.
I won't respond to any more of your posts.

Disclaimer: I don't follow fashion in that I don't watch style blogs or buy fashion magazines but from looking around at the stylish folk they seem to wear:

Blanket scarfs (worn open, which is just as well cos if you try and wrap them around your head gets buried)
Neck tubes: if anyone knows of anywhere that sell nice one let me know, I only have a randomly patterned one for running outside. Would love to find a stylish one to wear instead of a scarf as I am cold-blooded and wear a scarf a lot (which I agree is not fashionable anymore, and the blanket one above is not suited to indoor) Advantage is they are very neat looking, rather than a floppy scarf. My male hairdresser was wearing one with a button shirt and it looked good.
Snood: Chunky wool, homemade pref!

Pola

Sorry I don't watch BB but there was talk of lots of scarfs being worn at the time and a secret society of mumsnet being acknowledged in public.

Condescending and mean? It's a thread about scarves! Look, when you start a thread people will give you all sorts of responses, esp when you open with a particular opinion as you did. Some will agree, others will disagree, and others (such as me) will give an alternative view.

I don't think high st fashion is beneath me (whatever that means) but style and beauty is about far more than high st fashion- that was my point, which is why I (and others) said that it's shouldn't be about following fashion and dictating that something is in or out. We should have the confidence to wear what we want, when we want, without being deemed passé, or out of touch, or put down for our choice of clothes by the fashion industry or other women. I'm sorry if you feel that is patronising or obvious but I really do feel that way - as women we constantly judged for the way we look. I am really not looking to start a fight over scarves

(The bootcut jeans comment was in response to a pp)

I'm not sure which I find more surreal: that we're falling out over scarves or that there are people on here who have never known bootcuts.

I don't think it's an either/or Flo

Op I am completely bemused by your attack on SirChenjin. She hadn't been aggressive or patronising at all. She's just been expressing her opinion about whether scarves are passé or not. Scarves for god sakes. Not the situation in Aleppo. I think a grip may be called for op

There have been a few intemperate posts, but lets not add to them by singling out posters. Instead, let's all have a snuggle in a big woolly scarf - I think I am correct that every single poster on this thread has supported the wearing of woolly scarfs? Yay - there are not many items of clothing that are universally loved. Snuggles.

I love scarves. I especially love big, printed cotton, White Stuff ones, and I'm not going to stop wearing my dozens of scarves just because some people find them passé.

My 20 something daughter in law wears one, stylishly but then she is from another county. It depends on how you wear it and dont let it wear you.

Personally speaking, I actually don't see the point in a scarf, unless it is to keep your neck warm. I would rarely wear one otherwise unless it is one of my skinny ones. Love my woolly ones.

Its a summer scarf thats passe

Fwiw and totally off the point of the thread I think it takes more confidence to wear what you like/suits you/develop your own sense of style than to follow 'what's in'
I think with the pressures on girls and women to look a certain way we should be fostering inner confidence

Off to choose today's scarf!

I have to say this thread hasn't convinced me scarves are out for me. Yes, I see that for extremely fashion conscious mid-twenties people, they might not wear long drapey 'pops of colour' (whatever they are) but everywhere I go, I see blanket scarves, pretty coloured large scarves, and I think I look good in a large scarf, so am going to carry on.

I'm not aiming for super-hip, I'm aiming for 'fat shelf below the boobs' coverage and I'm yet to be convinced that exposing that and replacing it with jewelry would make me look younger or nicer. Young people don't wear statement jewelry either, should we all abandon that?!

I'm probably about to disappear up my own arse now but surely the whole idea of what's stylish is, in itself, subject to fashion? There's probably a parallel universe out there where a saggy jawline is the ultimate in style and where I'm a supermodel.

surely the whole idea of what's stylish is, in itself, subject to fashion? Totally agree.

I'm a winter scarf wearer...and glad of them ooop north.

Summer...no way. That's for summer dresses,

I'm on a decluttering mission and last night went through my scarf cupboard. I decided to chuck out the really thick winter ones...this morning with the wind blowing a hooley and a smattering of the white stuff on the ground...I'm going to drag that big, fluffy, soft as butter one out of the bag and wear it!

Hmph! To fashion!