Fashion is all about accessories. You can change the cheapest and most boring look into an interesting and chic outfit with a few accessories. Therefore I love scarves.
I never go out without a scarf. I wear them in school, at nightclubs and sometimes when I sleep. Even if it’s 30 degrees outside I wear some small scarf. Of course, I have some dresses to which a scarf does not fit so well. If I have one of them on I do not wear a scarf (but I have one in my handbag…just in case…).
The day after a non-scarf night is always horrible. My neck cracks and really hurts so that I have to wear an extra huge scarf. I don’t know if that is psychosomatic or if I have an extreme sensitive neck (or maybe I should finally start working out…).
A friend from the US told me once that this thing with the scarves is so typical European. No one in the US would wear such grandma accessories. I heart that the general style in the US is more casual but is it really so out to wear a scarf? However, this friend also told me that American students often go in pyjamas to school and I’m still wondering if she was kidding or not. If that is true a US university must be the opposite of a Swedish one where students are so dressed up that I sometimes wonder if they are really on their way to school or a hip club.
Anyway, I love my little collection of grandma scarves. I think I have some 30 pieces now from different countries and shops in different colours and price categories.
Here are my favourite ones:
Some second hand shop in Berlin (Sorry, I don't remember which one).
H&M.
My grandma's wardrobe.
Beyond Retro, Stockholm.
Beyond Retro, Stockholm.
Lindex.
By the way, I wanted to wear a scarf on the picture of the banner but the photographer thought that would not look so great. Therefore you don’t see a scarf on that picture.
Yeah I think scarves might be a little more European than American, but Americans wear them too mostly in the winter though. I think the world is divided into two kinds of people – scarf people and non-scarf people.
I absolutely never wear a scarf. To me a scarf is just one more thing to carry around. I generally choose to freeze my ass off before I ever wearing a scarf, but I am also extremely unstylish according to my Swedish girlfriend.
And no, American kids don’t generally wear pajamas to school. Keep wearing your scarves, I think it’s common knowledge that Europeans dress better than us Americans.
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As an australian we don’t wear scarfs. In sweden the climate makes it reasonably but in australia if you see a person with a scarf on the immediate assumption is that they are trying way too hard,
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I think scarf wearing is climate dependent. Being from Texas, no one wears scarves, as it is too hot, even in the winter. Living in the northern US, I have seen people wear scarves all the year round, even in the summer, as it can be quite chilly.
As to wearing pyjamas- it was a trend in the US in the early 2000s for university students to wear them, but I think that is trend is over now. I think if a child wore pyjamas to school, the school might contact the authorities to determine if the child was receiving proper care at home.
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As an American in Northern California, I can assure you that your American friend was not kidding when she said it was common for students to go to school in pijamas, especially a few years ago.
It began because we have “Spirit Week” in high school and each day you dress up according to the theme (hawaiian day, superhero day, twin day, ect.) Usually one day (and only one day) the whole school would dress up in pijamas. Well, this spiraled out of control and people started showing up to school in pijamas all the time. At my high school, lots of people would go to school in pijamas, I thought it was dumb.
Now, some schools have started making a rule that pijamas are no longer allowed, so that has helped keep our casual dress a little better.
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That’s hilarious!
But these “Spirit Weeks” must be great fun!
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