Scarves: Fox hunting
I partial to certain animals—foxes and owls—so I fell hard, I mean shuddering-waves-of-longing-hard for this:
An Emma Shipley Odin scarf: Arctic foxes with winged helmets and feet! Frightfully expensive (£355) but idiosyncratic and beautiful.
Yikes, that is about $640 in $CDN (for a 55 inch by 78 inch rectangle), plus shipping and those ghastly customs duties, for modal, aka rayon. A high-end rayon, but still, The Scarf Is Too Damn High, girls.
A reader e-mailed me in early summer about an Etro scarf she was eying with a similar price point to the Odin, and I said the same thing: rayon should not ring in above a good weight silk.
I found a designer, FineArtSilk, on Etsy who has a category for scarves featuring foxes and owls. Soul sister! What do you think of Foxes on Gray?
Price is $75 plus shipping, and it is 100% silk. It has a naive charm but is not a natural fit with my wardrobe.
Closer to my palette is the scene of naughty foxes on Karen Mabon's 35-in. "Midnight Feast" silk square (also from Liberty), with an unusual teal, tomato, grey and black colourway and offbeat theme; the price, £110, is not crazy.
Hermès, "Chasse au Bois" features a pretty fox; I found a classic carré on eBay for around $US295. No question, I would wear it.
The medieval, costly Odin is out; the hand-painted owls probably too artsy-crafty, the midnight munchers tempting, and I have abiding affection for the quality and refined palette of Hermès—but wearing that means many others stay in the drawer. What to do?
In the meantime, at a corner vintage shop, I picked up a small Pucci-esque silk square, in new condition, for $10. No foxes, but a lively little tweakette.
An Emma Shipley Odin scarf: Arctic foxes with winged helmets and feet! Frightfully expensive (£355) but idiosyncratic and beautiful.
Yikes, that is about $640 in $CDN (for a 55 inch by 78 inch rectangle), plus shipping and those ghastly customs duties, for modal, aka rayon. A high-end rayon, but still, The Scarf Is Too Damn High, girls.
A reader e-mailed me in early summer about an Etro scarf she was eying with a similar price point to the Odin, and I said the same thing: rayon should not ring in above a good weight silk.
I found a designer, FineArtSilk, on Etsy who has a category for scarves featuring foxes and owls. Soul sister! What do you think of Foxes on Gray?
Price is $75 plus shipping, and it is 100% silk. It has a naive charm but is not a natural fit with my wardrobe.
Closer to my palette is the scene of naughty foxes on Karen Mabon's 35-in. "Midnight Feast" silk square (also from Liberty), with an unusual teal, tomato, grey and black colourway and offbeat theme; the price, £110, is not crazy.
Hermès, "Chasse au Bois" features a pretty fox; I found a classic carré on eBay for around $US295. No question, I would wear it.
The medieval, costly Odin is out; the hand-painted owls probably too artsy-crafty, the midnight munchers tempting, and I have abiding affection for the quality and refined palette of Hermès—but wearing that means many others stay in the drawer. What to do?
In the meantime, at a corner vintage shop, I picked up a small Pucci-esque silk square, in new condition, for $10. No foxes, but a lively little tweakette.
Comments
I like your new scarf and for a very small investment you can wear it with joy and use the money you saved for something else!
UGH--as to modal or even natural fibers--so often the price has no relation to quality. At least you know that the Hermes silk would last and last.
You could always plan a wee trip over to England... we've infested with cute animal themed clothes and accessories and homewares. Foxes, owls and more are cropping up all over!
unefemme: I'd say our pickers are savvy too; it's not often I find a silk scarf with no issues and my colours.
Marilyn: I am sorry for your scarf's degradation, when clothing does not return its cost, galling!
Frugal: Very thrummy toward the Hermès but I still have many am determined to wear more.
eleanorjane: Now here is where that prescriptive shopping that I wrote about several days ago would come in handy. If Midnight Foxes just showed up on my doorstep I'd likely fall for it.
I don't like "cute", so would avoid a fox-head a tea cosy or fox-printed sweater. I'm picky about where my critters cavort.
LPC: Foxes like me, too.
C.
C.
For those in Toronto, the semi-annual Kalabander scarf pop up is now on at 67 Sullivan Street..some lovely things.
lagtta: Your idea is excellent and now is the time when many churches have winter jumble sales.
Swissy: I have Hermès scarves with animals- one with a rabbit (in a hat! That is "La Magie", one of my all time favourites), others with bird, bees and of course horses. Their animal designs are highly realistic. And I am certainly open to 'abstract fox'!
C.
P.S. My ravens may actually be Brewer's Blackbirds, now that I look at them again--they have white eyes--but ravens sound so much wilder, I'm sticking with them.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/65700834/special-price-rusty-fox?ref=also_bought
I love Etsy, too.
I was amused by this fox, but not apt to wear it, as the crafty look is not me- one of those effects that at 65+, are best left to others. You led me to pondering the proliferation of cute, crafted animal-themed clothing and accessories found on Etsy, some of them charming and well-made like this scarf. That market is large and skews young.
I still regret the giving away(in the mid-70s)of a russet faux suede coat with faux fox trimmed hood and hemline-the colour was GORGEOUS!!
http://www.arthurquentin.com/chic_choc.html
But they are also in the naïve style that can read as too cutesy...
http://www.nathalie-lete.com/#!home/c1u8z