I love bright, borderline loud scarves this time of year, when it’s too easy to walk out of the house in the drabbest colors from head to toe. The right scarf can light up your whole face even when makeup fails you, and I’m also always looking for items to put a little spring in my step when it gets to be grey and miserable out and I start feeling deathly pallid no matter how much bronzer I apply. This one from Missoni is all fierce oranges and yellows, with a little black thrown in for good measure.
There is a very subtle herringbone pattern here that I quite like, and the combination of reds is so good. It’s Eileen Fisher, who occasionally surprises one.
This is possibly a bit much, but just the right thing for certain circumstances.
Red leopard is never a bad idea, and the price is quite nice.
I like the chunkiness of this option,and the stripes are cute in a slightly preppy Ali McGraw kind of a way.
This is White + Warren’s excellent travel scarf, which is absolute genius on a frigid airplane, and again, I’m liking the stripes.
I always get really happy when I see red, white, and blue together: it’s so graphic and appealing.
Houndstooth is so chic and under-used, and the stripes of color are fun.
Pendelton’s National Parks series strikes again. I’m going to venture to say that this is actually a really sophisticated color combination, and that it looks fancier than it is—sort of like Gucci right now, if that’s your thing.
Why not something pink and floofy?
This has a small diamond-plaid print, something I’d never seen before but quite like—it makes the wee-est of statements.
Love that houndstooth. The stripes on it are perf, which I never say but here it feels appropriate somehow.
Gucci is not my thing because it is so freakin’ expensive, but I wish it *were* my thing!
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Thank you for this post. I love scarves, especially in winter, and it is always great to get new ideas for how to style them. I dig the plaid-on-plaid look!
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Dear Kim,
A post I would love to see would be about the mystery of why women’s tops don’t come in the right shade of red. When they do, the red is always too orange-y for me. I love cherry, blue-ish red the most, and finding tops (blouses, sweaters, whatever) that fit this tone red is so rare I think it deserves a post.
A related issue is that when I do find the right red, the item is sooo pricey. It’s as if striking that tone of red costs the production line extra.
Thanks and thanks too for your great writing.
Kind regards,
Anna
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Faves: Free People plaid, White & Warren stripes, and Eileen Fisher…Whom my “large boned” frame is quite fond of. Now, I’m taking a brief but necessary (to me) aside: My dear departed niece, who was 15 at the time, had a cat appropriately named “Rocky”…Kind of a big, dumb brute. I said, “Sarah, my gosh, that cat is FAT!” to which she replied, “Aunt Val, he’s not fat, he’s just large-boned!” It’s been 6 and a half years, and I miss her especially much now during the holidays.
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