So how DO you wear a scarf without...

[lilafowler]

Looking like a douche? I know a lot of you here pull it off-my H's aunt gave me a gorgeous scarf for Christmas and I would like to wear it and not look like an idiot.

Do you have tips on how to wrap it? Any pics? I googled tutorials on google and it laughed at me.

[walterismydog]

I love scarves and wear them all the time. I don't know if I look like a douche or not, though.

I don't like the "oprah" scarf method - where you fold it in half and then pull it through the loop. No thanks, too preppy for me. I like mine kind of messy. I do this thing where I put it around my neck, grasp one end, spin the other end all around my neck, then pull that end through the loop it creates. That's probably a horrible description. Basically, I just play around with them until I like them.

[theintended]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LYAEz777AU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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what kind of scarf? relative size and shape.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Ugh, my sister wears "indoor scarves" all the time, but I just can't. I look like such a dick. It's too typical-art-historian. Next I'd need a brooch and a chain for my glasses.

[walterismydog]

Oh that video is fun. My favorite method is closest to "the magic trick" - and I also love waterfall, celebrity, and infinity.

[Deleted]

oh, and i wear scarves a ton. i don't care if i look like a douche or not. so, i might not be able to give you non-douche advice. i just want to be warm and enjoy the color and pattern of scarves.

[Kit]

I can't. I look like a tool.

[lilafowler]

Cville-It's a filmy, light 5'X5'.

If this isn't a scarf and it's a shawl I'll be embarrassed.

[fierypajamas]

Jan 3, 2013 9:20:07 GMT -5 walterismydog said:

I love scarves and wear them all the time. I don't know if I look like a douche or not, though.

I don't like the "oprah" scarf method - where you fold it in half and then pull it through the loop. No thanks, too preppy for me. I like mine kind of messy. I do this thing where I put it around my neck, grasp one end, spin the other end all around my neck, then pull that end through the loop it creates. That's probably a horrible description. Basically, I just play around with them until I like them.

I've never heard of it called the Oprah way, haha, but that's how I tie my scarves.

[Deleted]

five feet? dang, yo. that's a big scarf. i think you could do the fold it into a triangle shawl thing if you wanted, but if it's filmy enough, you can do scarf things with it.

the best website with options for how to tie square filmy/silky scarves is hermes. no lie. here's a link for a bunch of them. i wouldn't try the snips dorag any time soon, but i bet the "maxi cheche" and "cravate flude" would be good options to start with and would really show off the scarf.

prettyportobello.blogspot.com/2011/10/24-ways-to-tie-scarf-hermes-knotting.html

[snipsnsnails]

It's 5 feet square? That's huge! But it's also gauzey? What colors?

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Jan 3, 2013 9:23:41 GMT -5 superduper said:

I had to Google tutorials because I am seriously scarf stupid. I'm rocking #3 today

www.thefashionspot.com/style-trends/news/171363-15-chic-and-creative-ways-to-tie-scarves

i do the #3 all the time too. what's nice about it is that you can wear it looser if you have a larger scarf and really fluff it up, or bind the scarf into a really tight tube before you tie it so that it's a bit smaller/tighter. and it never comes out/undone.

[aprilludgate]

Jan 3, 2013 9:27:53 GMT -5 fierypajamas said:

Jan 3, 2013 9:20:07 GMT -5 walterismydog said:

I love scarves and wear them all the time. I don't know if I look like a douche or not, though.

I don't like the "oprah" scarf method - where you fold it in half and then pull it through the loop. No thanks, too preppy for me. I like mine kind of messy. I do this thing where I put it around my neck, grasp one end, spin the other end all around my neck, then pull that end through the loop it creates. That's probably a horrible description. Basically, I just play around with them until I like them.

I've never heard of it called the Oprah way, haha, but that's how I tie my scarves.

I wear scarves all the time.

I've never heard this either, but it's also how I tie my scarves. Sometimes I do this and put one of the ends underneath the loop to make it look more layered. It's kind of a fun spin.

[lilafowler]

Yes, it's super gauzy-almost transparent. It's white with shots of silver blended in.

[lemondrop]

I wear scarves all the time, but if I look like a douche, I'm blissfully unaware.

On the Fashion spot link, I do a lot of 15. I'd like to do more of 3.

[walterismydog]

Ha ha, sorry for the Oprah confusion, that's just what I refer to it as because one of the rare times I watched Oprah, she was learning how to tie it that way and she kept making OH MY GOD faces and it was just hilarious. I cannot call it anything else now.

Officially, in that video, it was called the European method.

[rugbywife]

I used to think everyone who wore scarves did it so well and that I couldn't, then I just decided to buy scarves and wear them anyways and I used that video to help me. I have about 20 scarves maybe. I love them.

My favourite way to wear them is to attach both ends and then wear it as an infinity loop but that doesn't work as well with a square. I only have a few square ones (even though I love them) and I tend to make them into triangles and wear them like this:

files.clubplanet.com/sitefiles/ArticleImages/2197/square.jpg

[snipsnsnails]

Jan 3, 2013 9:23:41 GMT -5 superduper said:

I had to Google tutorials because I am seriously scarf stupid. I'm rocking #3 today

www.thefashionspot.com/style-trends/news/171363-15-chic-and-creative-ways-to-tie-scarves

#9 would be super easy and nice with a guazey scarf. Here it is with a similar sized scarf, but in a darker color all over, obviously.

[hbear]

I'm inspired to start wearing more scarves!

[KKD]

Jan 3, 2013 9:39:03 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

are you on Pinterest? Search '40 ways to tie a scarf'

www.scarves.net/scarf-tying-index.html

I mostly do the slip knot (or Oprah scarf), the wrap and tie (or #15 on superduper's link), or the loose wrap.

I like the #3 that cville and superduper do but I haven't taken the time to figure it out. Really I don't wear scarves as an accessory very much.

[no0b]

I also didn't know about the Oprah way of tying. Meh, I like scarves so I wear them a lot. I guess I just like to douche it up.

[luckyval]

I love my scarves, they give me much needed color in a largely neutral wardrobe. But, I'll admit that I need to branch out

[lilafowler]

That's the thing luckyval-I tend to wear so much black and gray that I need some pop of color to brighten it up.

[lilafowler]

Kevin Arnold is so wise.

[Deleted]

I might be a douchebag but this is how I wear a scarf.

[mamasaurus]

I don't wear them a lot, but when I do I wear them with a blazer and have it just sort of poofing up out of there. I know, you're probably thinking, "Summer's Eve or Massengil?"