Scarves- advice please

[colette]

I love the idea of brightening up an outfit with a scarf and hopefully looking a bit trendier , but I am a scarf virgin.
I have spent hours looking at scarves and ended up buying a multi coloured stripey one from per una. When I got home and tried it on it looks really frumpy iykwim. It is a bit sort of stiff and feels far too big and in your face .
I am 43 shortish and wonder if I should start with a smaller scarf - how do you tie it so it looks casual , do i keep it on when I take my jacket off. Hoped it would smarten up t-shirts etc. Any ideas please

am off to get dd from her art club - hope i get loads of replies

i am an expert scarf persuer afetr havign worked at a girls secondary school for three days

imo the fatter oyu are the bigger the scarf needs to be. if it sstiff then wash it

www.howtodothings.com/fashion-personal-care/how-to-tie-a-scarf

"nothign wrong wiht him" as bilwoudl say

god thatsi addicitve that search

do americans not haev pahsminas?
they all talk about them being "in europe"

liek the second one

adn i liek the odd one att he end too

no the pernulitamate one

I love scarfs. make sure the colour suits you eg hold it up against you in the shop, if it makes you look more pretty, then good, if it makes you look ill, bad. if you have a long neck then good - wear the scarf showing a little bit of neck - or you'll look like a rugby player.

get luxurious fabrics eg get a lovely casmere or silk or something you couldn't afford a whole outfit of. you can get brilliant ones in charity shops.

You need to put in on like you have just threw it on. But, obviously you'd have spent a hour getting it to look like that.
My advice? Set your alarm clock earlier.

Is it a woolly scarf or a silky one?

Thanks for the clips cod - i might look at her website as well when I get kids in bed.I like the way she has tied the scarves except for the "almost a bow one"
mitfordsisters the colours of the one I got were good, lilac/aqua etc but the stripes and the sort of stiff chiffonish feel were not. I had not thought of looking in charity shops good idea - I looked on oasis websites and some scarves were £25

cocolepew I try that effect with my hair and can't seem to get it righteither. Scarfs I want to get are more cottonish. Am being hassled by ds must cook

Thanks a lot for the replies

hahah! i LIKEd the bwo one

hey collete

you coudl always tie them aorudn your head to hodl your phone on

you thought we ahd forgotten

Or use it to tie ds up so you can be uninterrupted on computer.