The initial task of the scarf is to provide a person with warmth, but a properly selected scarf can and should be used not only to create comfort, but also as a beautiful accessory that complements your look.
Types of scarves
According to the types of material from which the scarves are made, they can be divided into three groups:
- tissue;
- knitted;
- fur.
The shape of the scarves are:
- rectangular (narrow and wide);
- square;
- scarves-pipes (snoody, clamps);
- palatine (pashmina).
Wool, cashmere, pashmina (as a kind of cashmere), velvet, and blended fabrics are used to make warm fabric scarves. Lighter options - cotton, chiffon, silk, polyester, lace.
The scarf can be knitted by hand or industrially from different types of yarn: wool, wool blend, with the addition of fluff, cotton or using artificial yarns.
The yarn can be simple or shaped (boucle, with sequins, ribbon, lace), thin or thick, monochrome or melange.
Fur scarves are created from solid linen (one-sided, lined, or double-sided) or knit from fur strips.
Palatines or pashminas (a type of cashmere cloth) - refined and at the same time quite versatile products, rather wide and long (up to 2 meters), will not be suitable except for an accentuated sports style, involving increased motor activity.
The soft folds of the graceful drapery of the stole are able to unobtrusively emphasize your image and become its final spectacular touch or completely shift the focus on yourself, changing the whole style as a whole, if you need it.
How to wear a scarf with a coat?
When choosing a scarf, you should decide not only the style and color of the coat, but also the general style, as well as the place and event you are planning to go to.
If you are an adherent of the classical style and, especially, go to the official business meeting, then you are perfectly suited the same classic scarf made of wool or cashmere. You can also use a thin fabric scarf that you knit under a coat.
If you are a fan of the conventionally rejecting style of boho, then you can wear a scarf with sequins to such a model and feel confident.
With a short coat jacket, a knitted scarf is appropriate, long or short, and with a fitted coat with a fluffy skirt and emphasized waist, chiffon scarves of matching colors look impressive. To the coat in military style, as they say, the topic will be a scarf-snud (scarf-tube, scarf-collar, transforming scarf).
The versatility and beauty of a stole or pashmina will allow you to wear them with almost any style of coat. Moreover, tied to a denim or leather cropped coat, the tippet will soften the harsh look and add femininity.
How to choose a scarf to coat in color?
Choosing the color of the scarf to the coat, be guided, first of all, by the color of the coat itself and the color of other accessories to it. Contrast accessories, including a scarf of the same color, can dilute the monotony of a classic monochrome coat and make it not so boring.
If the coat is already motley, then it makes sense to choose a monochrome scarf “without fads”.
Non-standard, but interesting will be the option when shoes, gloves, a scarf, a hat and a bag are selected in a contrasting or the same color as the coat, but in shades of the same color that differ from each other.
Ways of tying
Ways to beautifully use a scarf very much. When choosing it, you should consider the model and style of the coat: with a collar, without a collar, a coat with a hood.
If your coat has an English collar, an apache collar, or just a large turn-down collar, it does not make sense to tie a scarf over the top of the coat. It should be placed on the neck, under the coat:
- The easiest way in this case is to throw a scarf around the neck and cross the ends on the chest, tucking them under the coat. This method is good in the case of solid tight scarves in combination with a coat of straight cut, and in the case of an elegant chiffon or even flirty gas scarf to a fitted coat with flared bottom.
- Folding the scarf in half, if the length permits, and threading its ends into the resulting loop, you will get a denser version of the first method.
- You can tie a scarf around your neck with different kinds of knots: from simple to tie, from loose to tight. At the same time, if the length allows, you can also wrap the scarf around the neck several times.
- Tie a scarf around your neck in any way, and pull the ends tucked under your coat into the space between the first and second loop of the shelf.
If a coat has a stand-up collar, a small turn-down collar, or if it has no collar at all, then a bulky collar will look appropriate and effective over the coat. Also organically in this case will look beautifully laid folds of pashmina.
For a coat with a hood, tie a careless semi-loose single knot of a long scarf with tassels.
How to tie a big scarf on a coat?
Under a large scarf usually mean stole or pashmina. To look decent in such an elegant thing, you first need to ... straighten up. Wrapping the tippet around the neck and shoulders, straighten its folds, making sure that its print is fed from the winning side, throw the ends back.
It looks very nice and an option when the ends of pashmina converge on the side, in this case, one end remains in the front, the second - from the back of the shoulder, and the part that was on the chest should be beautifully draped.
You can simply tie a large scarf on the chest with a loose knot, straightening the cape over your shoulders.
How to tie a long scarf on a coat?
The classic way of tying a long fabric or knitted scarf is to wrap it around the neck, thus making a loop, and hang the ends on the chest.
An interesting option will turn out in the event that you wrap a scarf around your neck, and tuck the straightened ends under a belt or belt coat.
If you do the opposite, that is, you will form a loop on your chest, and carelessly throw the ends of a long scarf back, then your look will take on some bohemian notes.
You can imitate the appearance of a scarf by wrapping a long knitted or woven scarf around your neck several times and twisting the ends inside.
You can generally carelessly throw a scarf on his shoulders, not tying it, especially to unbuttoned coat.
A long thin scarf of not very wide width is allowed to wrap around the neck and tighten it quite tightly. In this case, the space between the scarf band at the neck and the neckline of the coat will remain open. It should be borne in mind, however, that this option will add more glamor, but this will not get any warmer.
How to make a scarf from a scarf?
Very original solutions can offer a scarf, used as a scarf. Given that the scarf is usually square, fold it in half to get a triangle, then roll it into a roll (simple or twisted) and tie it around the neck with a simple knot, leaving, at your discretion, the ends on the chest, on the back or even on one shoulder on both sides.
If the tissue of the scarf is light, then such a loose twisted volume roll can be laid around the neck several times, and the tied tips can be tucked inside.
“Cowboy” option - a handkerchief folded in half, tied with a loose double knot, turns forward with a triangle, and the ends remain on the back. In a coat with an open collar, thus, you will see a beautiful shawl, besides reliably protecting you from the cold.
Video
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