Fit To Be Tied– Diva Style Tip #1
Posted by La Dolce Diva on Sep 16, 2008 | 1 comment
One of the easiest and most inexpensive ways to look as if you just blew in from the Italian Riviera, is to tie a designer or “designer type” scarf to your bag. You will immediately attain continental insouciance with a simple slip of silk.
No need to splurge, although a good Hermés scarf will last you a lifetime, but no, it can be an inexpensive little tidbit you picked up on sale and just had to have– who needs a reason! Even if it never makes it to the prima location of being casually knotted at your neck– it can go through it’s little scarf-life being a work of art.
Try it with a pair of jeans or that little back dress, toss on a pair of smokey avaiator’s and you will be sure to turn heads. Now where did I park my Alpha Romeo?
Thank you so much for reviving this handy little bit of styling! But why stop at purses? Scarves on heads, around necks, draped over shoulders–I love scarves, but young American women just don’t use them like their European counterparts. A very good friend of mine who lives in Geneva has an oversized Hermes scarf that she keeps folded up in her purse year round–“In Geneva, you can have a rain shower blow through in the middle of August and the temperature will plunge to twelve degrees celsius just like that. A big silk scarf doesn’t really take up that much room in my bag and it’s the perfect thing to wrap over your shoulders to keep the chill off or cover your head.”
Doesn’t that sound charming? I have no idea what 12 degrees celsius is, but it must be cold for August in Geneva.