Scarves: Why it’s Hip to be Square

Scarves: Why it’s Hip to be Square – Scarves make an otherwise uninspiring outfit unique. They can introduce a shot of colour and flatter your face when your hair is having an off day. They are a fashion imperative.

Just read an interesting article by new style columnist Hannah Betts of the Daily Telegraph, UK newspaper, entitled Scarves: Why it’s Hip to be Square

According to Hannah Betts “Moreover, they are a very January-ish strategy for making one’s wardrobe stretch further. A contemporary of Audrey Hepburn recalls that, as an impoverished chorus girl, Audrey had “one skirt, one blouse, one pair of shoes, and a beret, but she had 14 scarves. What she did with them week by week you wouldn’t believe.”

Where once scarves were deemed a tad old ladyish, now they are a global fashion fetish, not least for the young. Gallic hipsters are never seen sans scarf, Kate Moss rarely leaves home without one and the cast of Gossip Girl live for their neckwear.

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