# When did everybody start wearing their scarves like this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580 "2009-01-09T20:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/41 "2009-01-11T03:07:17Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > That’s called a ‘snood’ here, and I think they’re only for girls. Snood? The only [snood](http://ecology.botany.ufl.edu/ecologyf02/turkeysex.html) on this farm involves the two F’s. One is fighting, the other is fuc… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/42 "2009-01-11T05:11:06Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/308689259\_58402059e2.jpg](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/308689259_58402059e2.jpg) > > Am I right in thinking this style has become quite suddenly popular? This is the best way to wear a scarf. I used to do the whole wrap once or twice around neck, but never really got the point of a scarf - it always comes loose and doesn’t seem to do much. A few years back a then-girlfriend got me a nice scarf for Christmas. I wasn’t too impressed until she showed me how to tie it the way in the pick. Now I love the thing to death. Still have it. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/43 "2009-01-11T19:15:49Z")
I have a very nice [_Scotsman_ scarf](http://shop.scotsman.com/I-GG-TS014-L_SCO-1/the-scotsman-tartan-lamora-scarf.htm) that my grandmother sent me about five or eight years ago. It’s warm and comfortable, but it’s too short to fold in half for the loop method, so I just wrap it around. I had never lived anywhere cold enough to need a scarf before my grandmother sent it to me, but I noticed the loop style as soon as I started wearing my scarf. ---
**Author:** ![Myrrajh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Myrrajh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrrajh)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/44 "2009-01-22T22:24:24Z")
I don’t have a scarf long enough to be worn that way. I knitted one for myself recently, wide enough to cover chin to just below the eyes, and long enough to go from below collar bone, back around the neck, around the face, and back below collar bone on other side. We get really cold winds way up here in Canada and being able to pull a bit of scarf up over your face is a godsend. Brr. Snowing and blowing again as I type. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/45 "2009-01-22T22:49:44Z")
Can someone explain to me what the point is of wearing a scarf at all? If I’m cold, I’m cold all over. I rarely find myself thinking “man, my neck is really cold”. Can’t you just turn up the collar of your coat, in those circumstances? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/46 "2009-01-22T22:55:30Z")
Bah humbug. I’m not fond of the look but suspect that it’ll take a celebrity to go the way of Isadora Duncan to depopularize the style. When I bought a rather nice scarf at The Limited in the mid-'90’s, it came with a booklet on how to tie scarves. Let’s just say there’s as many ways (virtually all of them more appealing than the current fashion) as there are idiotic fashionistas on television… which is a lot. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/47 "2009-01-22T23:40:37Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Can someone explain to me what the point is of wearing a scarf at all? If I’m cold, I’m cold all over. I rarely find myself thinking “man, my neck is really cold”. Can’t you just turn up the collar of your coat, in those circumstances? But if the collar isn’t thick or close enough, the air still gets down in it. This seals up the gap with nice warm material. A deluxe alternative to the “new way” is fold it in two like you would be doing it the new way. Put one of the ends through the loop. Holding the loop out, twist it one more time and put the second end through that smaller loop. Looks pretty! ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/48 "2009-01-23T13:28:47Z")
It’s been in style for at least six and a half years in the UK. I can be exact, because yahs were wearing scarves in summer (with shorts, tee-shirts and sandles) tied in this style in my first year of university, and the sight of an idiot wearing a scarf in summer isn’t something you forget 😛 It was definitely around before Mourinho was at Chelsea, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/49 "2009-01-23T14:24:51Z")
[This is my favoritest scarf evar.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27580061@N05/2573219466/) And I knit it myself. If my neck is cold, everything else is wrong, wrong, wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/50 "2009-01-23T15:44:31Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Can someone explain to me what the point is of wearing a scarf at all? If I’m cold, I’m cold all over. I rarely find myself thinking “man, my neck is really cold”. Can’t you just turn up the collar of your coat, in those circumstances? That’s what I do. I only put a scarf on my daughter because I really don’t want her to be cold at all and she looks really really cute when she’s wrapped up 😃 When I’m putting it on her, I put the mid point of the scarf at the front, wrap both ends around her neck and let them sit down in front, keeping her warmer. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/51 "2009-01-23T17:26:51Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > [This is my favoritest scarf evar.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27580061@N05/2573219466/) And I knit it myself. > > If my neck is cold, everything else is wrong, wrong, wrong. Very pretty! And so is Lilly. I’m just trying to learn to knit and crochet. So far, I haven’t produced anything wearable yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wigwag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f1d935/32.png) [@wigwag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wigwag)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/52 "2009-01-23T18:47:28Z")
**Leiko** says: > [@](#): > > Mangetout- What do people in your area call these if gaiters are snoods? I’m with you, Leiko. The snoods you’ve identified were once briefly fashionable in my admittedly out-to-lunch part of the world. And then there’s this: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snood\_(headgear)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snood_(headgear)) A turkey just wears his on the wrong part of his head. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/53 "2009-01-24T00:45:15Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#): > > Very pretty! And so is Lilly. > > I’m just trying to learn to knit and crochet. So far, I haven’t produced anything wearable yet. 😃 Take your time. Knitting waits for everyone. Sometimes even in a mocking tone. ( My cat hates you. Don’t take it personally, everyone is beneath her.) ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/54 "2009-01-24T01:30:31Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > (My first post after a long time lurking. Be gentle with me.) You vile hound! Oh wait, this isn’t the pit! Welcome aboard! I’ll have to claim ignorance on Jose Mourinho. > [@Mangetout](#): > > That’s called a ‘snood’ here, and I think they’re only for girls. When it’s cold I’ll wear a scarf. When the wind chill is forty-five below I’ll go with **FarmerChick**. I use a gaiter that is about 10" from top to bottom and made of polar fleece. I can pull it up in back and over my ears as well as pulling it over my nose. When it’s that cold, exposed skin is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/55 "2009-01-24T01:37:35Z")
If I’m going to bother wearing a scarf it’s because it’s cold out. I wrap it around my neck and face a few times and tuck the end in. Then only my eyes are exposed between the scarf my hat. ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/56 "2009-01-24T07:24:54Z")
I first saw this style of wearing a scarf in Paris in May of 2001. I’ve worn my scarves like this off and on ever since but when I do I feel kinda pretentious. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/57 "2009-01-24T08:02:27Z")
This is so funny, I’ve almost posted this exact OP a million times. Until, I left it long enough, that this is no longer the style. The full-throated [khaffiyeh](http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w163/tinarollins/siralistairraiscarfjessicaalba.jpg)look is more “in” now. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580/58 "2009-01-24T16:30:55Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > This is so funny, I’ve almost posted this exact OP a million times. Until, I left it long enough, that this is no longer the style. The full-throated [khaffiyeh](http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w163/tinarollins/siralistairraiscarfjessicaalba.jpg)look is more “in” now. Heh. I’d like to see her standing on an EL platform for 20 minutes in January wearing that! (No, really! The phrase “nipples of steel” springs irresistibly to mind. I’d pay to see that.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-everybody-start-wearing-their-scarves-like-this/480580.md?page=2)