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

narrowboatnan

So pleased to hear that others have scarf passion.
I have scarf's that I bought over forty years ago.
Some are very cheap but favourite colours or materials and bring back memories of the way I felt when I wore with certain outfits. Shawls of all sizes, materials and colours, pattern. My favourites are the ones that I either got in sales, so I could get very cheaply good 'brand' names or great scarfs that I bought in Charity Shops.

My family say I treat my scarf's like precious antiques. The ones I don't wear regularly, are taken out of their boxes I look at every one, then they are washed or dry cleaned. I do this at least every six months. They are then put back into tissue before being put back into their storage boxes. Not because they are, as I said particularly expensive, just because I love them, and never know when I might need that certain scarf to turn an ordinary outfit into something special.

As other posters have said, I simply cannot throw them away. Every now and then a favourite will start to look a bit 'well loved' shall I say, and I know it has to go, but it can take me months to actually bring myself to dispose of it.

My oldest fine wool scarf (my first shawl scarf) is a Liberty one. Fab colours all shades of blue's, and shades of lilacs in of course the Liberty peacock feathers, very outdated now, but I could never get rid of it. I remember when I bought it in the sale in London, when I wore it, and with what. It brings back such lovely memories of great times. Lots more like that. It sounds really silly, but ... well what can I say!

I love scarves too, and have 3 drawers filled with them, plus a couple of special ones stored in their box. They really do lift an outfit.
Another pick me up is a nice cup of coffee with a magazine to read or here on GN! (As now ??).

Allygran, I've got the Liberty blue peacock feathers wool shawl too - my son, then a student, bought it as a Christmas present when he had a friend with a part-time job in Liberty's who bought it on staff discount!

I keep bulky shawls & stoles in the wardrobe, but fine silk ones hang on a special scarf/tie/belt hanger (a plastic triangle with holes) which is on a picture hook on the wall - it doubles as decoration!

My feel good go to is books, I am having to try and stop myself buying anymore until I have read some more of the dozens I have. and a trip to the library ( why do I need to go there) is my idea of heaven.
On the subject of scarves, I have a few, but never know how to wear them or what with as most of my tops are patterned. I will have to search utube for ideas as I do think other women do look a bit more sophisticated when wearing them

I can't cope with scarves though I probably have a dozen or so. I love beads and necklaces of all types - expensive ones and some bought in supermarkets and charity shops. In fact, I bought a lovely one in Sainsbury's yesterday.

And, like ga, I always have flowers about - definitely in the hall and on the kitchen table.

I have too many scarves and too many orchids

Thought that was just me! Re scarves, one cream, one white, wear all the time.

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I’m not really into scarves (never know how to wear them ) other than in the winter to keep warm .

I have a lovely deep blue scarf holder (bought as a gift but never used ) I would be happy to send to anyone who would like it . Just PM me

Henbane, it's a lovely shawl, the colours are still fabulous, after all these years.

MagicWriter I find the best thing to do is not to 'set' the scarf, keep it natural. The material is the clue, soft and flexible as you would guess is the best, try it various ways until you feel nice. I find that if I am aware of the scarf then I haven't got it right, and off it comes and try another one. Generally plain with pattern and pattern with plain is what I do, but then I am a bit old fashioned. I do think some people can mix patterns really well. Not me though, I look like a dogs dinner if I mix patterns.

Orchids lemongrove...do tell!

Kittylester my sister like you prefers beads, cost irrelevant if she like's something that's it, 20p or £20 she has to have it. She has style and can carry big jewellery off very well. Mainly beads of all sizes are her favourites. Her hair is shoulder length and she has decided not to give way to grey and has her natural colour from her younger days maintained, and a scarf just does nothing for her, but beads add that wow factor for her. She has so many that she bought a slim wooden tall boy to keep them in. She doesn't like them piled on top of each other. Some are boxed because they are second hand from antique fairs or second hand shops, or charity shop other are as you say from supermarkets or other shops. We never fail to please her with a gift of jewellery, beads in particular so some are from Jewellery stores. Doesn't matter it's the equivalent of my scarf collection.

Mapleleaf....the cup of coffee and a magazine a real treat, I can relate to that very well. It's that shut off time from whatever else is going on around me.

Me too with scarves, very handy for hiding my increasingly wrinkly neck! My second pick me up is playing 70's rock music, very loudly