My favourite pick-me-up - scarves! What’s yours?

Have you been reading my mind................or rummaging through my several drawers ??!!

Back through the ages I have been collecting and I don`t think there is a colour scheme ever created that I cannot find a complimentary scarf to match in my collection.

I wonder what the overall name could be for us scarfaholics?

It brightens up life........ and our faces....... as we age!!!

Mine is/was a beautiful cerise scarf that brightened up anything I wore....until I leant to close to a candle and set it alight ? I then bought another of the same colour and loved it until it got caught in the mechanism of a rotating door and had to be surgically removed. I am not sure if I dare buy a third one

Is your middle name Isadora Duncan Doodle ?

No maw According to DH I never look where I'm going or what I am doing. On two separate occasions, I have set fire to the menus in the same restaurant by lowering one end into the candle on the table and setting them on fire. The restaurant has now changed its menus to a much smaller size

And its name to The Chiltern Firehouse!

maw

My pick me up is a magazine, much safer!

Scarves!
over 50
I have a large scar on my neck which I like to keep covered.
So I wear a different scarf every day.

I love love love scarves, I have five drawers full and stuffed with scarves. As pp said, I can match a scarf to anything. Some have been gifts and quite expensive, others are from market stalls or a charity shop. All are loved.

At one time there was a clearance and loads went to the charity shop.
Since then I have tried to cull my collection but as I go through them there just aren't any that don't serve a purpose. At present I have a cream lace one wrapped around the pot of a peace lily to make the pot fit into my colour scheme. Attached photo is the same scarf wrapped around some tulips and eucalyptus because I only had a clear glass vase and didn't want the stems on show.

Am the same, a whole deep drawer filled with scarves ( and not the warm Winter ones, they have a different drawer all to themselves.)
This isn’t an age thing, I have always used scarves a lot as my Mother passed on the wise advice when I was a teenager, that although we couldn’t afford much ( to spend on clothes)
You could buy a cheap item, change the buttons and wear a colourful scarf.
It’s also a good way to keep up with fashion colours as a scarf doesn’t cost much.

I hang my scarves rather than keeping in a drawer.
I have a couple of scarf hangers
and I use shower curtain rings looped over coat hangers.
Each hanger holds several scarves of particular shade or colour.

I love the idea of scarves and I love them on other people but I always feel a complete idiot if I wear one myself - really self conscious. No idea why this could be ?

For large winter scarves I use trouser clip hangers.
Just remembered I do have some chiffon and silk type scarves in a drawer
Also silk scarf that belonged to my late mother .

I have about 40 scarves , I can't part with them , some I where as a pashmina, a sarong , and some as just a scarf! I love the way Mary Berry ties her scarf , it looks so different ,Cherry tree, what a great idea hanging them from a shower curtain ring, I must try that,

Winter scarves - yes
Any other scarves - I am the same as Beau and feel self conscious.
My pick me up is the same as MOnica - a magazine or a phone call to a friend for a good old chat.

Beau I know what you mean. They always look so elegant draped artlessly round other people but I think they just look plain silly on me.

I do not wear scarves, I have a short neck, which means I tend to look like Kilroy peeping above his wall when I wear a scarf. I envy those swan necked women who always look so elegant in scarfs. I don't!

Probably as a result of the neck problem, if ever I do wear a scarf, I find they get in the way, dangerous when cooking but great crumb catchers when eating biscuits or toast.

I too love scarves, not sure how many I have.

I wear very soft drapey scarves in winter indoors, . If my neck is cosy I feel warm all over, they are great with the air con at work. . I like the look, it livens up just a plain boring jumper.

I have many scarves and often have one draped around me. They give an outfit a lift, give me a bit of colour when required and keep me cosy when it’s chilly. I bought 2 on Monday (one a lovely coral colour and one white with a discreet sparkle)!

I am also a scarf lover and have many,to liven up a plain top or outfit.

I'm so glad I read this thread. I was feeling a bit guilty at the five scarves in my drawer. Now I know I should definitely buy lots more.

I have a gazillion scarves because they're an 'easy' gift to buy for a woman when you don't know her very well - many of mine were 'thank you' gifts.
However, my pick-me-up of choice will always be flowers. When we were very poor I always imagined how lovely it would be to have enough money to buy flowers - not expensive bouquets, just your common or garden bunch of freesias or pinks etc. Now I tend to have flowers in two or three rooms all the time; at this time of year some are garden flowers and I have a very prettily scented rose bush outside my window that keeps one little vase occupied.

Oh no, Maw! I have 5 Joules Harbour tops so will have to have a look at the matching scarves. They do finish an outfit and I have dozens of small ones. I don't like the big ones that dangle in whatever I am doing and tangle with my spec chain.

I like the IDEA of scarves,and some are soft and look very pretty,but i dont wear them,as i cant stand them being around my neck all the time,it becomes irritating after a while! Im not entirely sure they suit me anyway- as im a short person i may look 'swamped' i think ?