I was chatting with a friend the other day, and she described herself as a "scarf hoarder", which I
loved. But I also felt super jealous -- I have a proportionately shorter neck, so I always stick to V- or scoop-neck tops. Unfortunately, adding a scarf negates any neck elongating illusions that a V-neck provides, and actually swallows my neck up entirely.
But, our conversation inspired me to try again with the scarves. They are just SO cute, especially this one from
Zara that was wildly popular last year.
They have a similar
one this year, but with all the red, the colors feel too bold for me. Luckily, there are a ton of alternatives!
There are some
great looking knock-offs on ebay, but I'm not sure how I feel about buying a scarf on ebay. Plus, it said it would take almost a week to get here, and I really want to wear it for some Thanksgiving festivities!
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| ebay (I love it with the mint green sweater!) |
I made a trip to
target to check this one out yesterday, but it has the more rectangular, traditional "scarf" cut, and I'd really like to try out the larger square design of the Zara-style scarves, which are often called blankets they're so large. The target scarf is also a bit too short for me to do much with style-wise, and the taupe color was almost yellow in person.
Then, I found the darker color series and got way, way excited! I decided to go with this one from Amazon. Now that I look at it, I'm pretty sure it's identical to the ones sold on ebay, but it's through prime, so I feel better about being able to return it (and get it in 2 days!).
The comments (and other pictures) show that the background color of this scarf is actually black, which I'm okay with since I wear a cobalt blue coat a
lot, and wouldn't want blue over-kill. As much as I love the color combinations in the more popular scarf, it's just not great coloring for my skin tone (olive undertones but lots of redness in the winter). I'm also afraid the first scarf is going to become so wildly popular that we will see it everywhere. Over-exposure quickly morphs something interesting into the opposite of trendy (like uggs, traditional burberry print scarves, or the C-print coach bags). My style is certainly not out-of-the-box, but I think even the preppiest of looks can have a personal twist, and I
always think style is first about dressing for
your body type, skin/hair colors, and personal tastes.
I'm so excited for my scarf to be here and try new ways to style it!
Southern Anchors compiled a great list of ways to style these scarves. I'm probably going to go with the way she has it styled in the above photo, or either of these first!
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