Snood? The only snood on this farm involves the two F’s. One is fighting, the other is fuc… :eek:
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.
I have a very nice Scotsman scarf 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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
This is my favoritest scarf evar. And I knit it myself.
If my neck is cold, everything else is wrong, wrong, wrong.
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.
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. 
Leiko says:
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)
A turkey just wears his on the wrong part of his head.
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.)
You vile hound!
Oh wait, this isn’t the pit!
Welcome aboard!
I’ll have to claim ignorance on Jose Mourinho.
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.
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.
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.
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 khaffiyehlook 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.)