Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: More Scarves For Spring

It's back and more fun than ever. Yes, it's the big over sized head bow scarf that women of a certain age (like mine) wore everywhere in 1984 or '85. You know it's hard for me to keep up with my old fashion passions, I've lost way too many brain cells over the years to remember anything but the really big fashion trends, like say the nude lip of the '90's.

But shopping last weekend for new Spring accessories brought back lots of lost and/or repressed memories of my club girl years. Big bows, feathers, sequins, scarves, and this fabulous little mini-hat thingy have been added to my hair accessory drawer. I even bought a really hard core hairspray to keep everything in place, and I can't remember the last time I wore hair spray.

That's a lie. It was in the '80's. Paul Mitchell's Freeze and Shine, the indestructible watermelon scented lacquer that held those awful hair don'ts in an upright position for days. You could pass out cold in a bathroom, car, parking lot, stranger's bedroom, city park, or other nefarious locations, and wake up without a hair out of place. Your purse, panties, or favorite shoes might be gone, but your bangs would still rise like the North East Ridge of K-2 from your forehead.

Anyway, I pawed through my storehouse of discarded accessories earlier this week to find more of my favorite scarves to tie on this spring and started googling different ways of arraying myself in them. I walk a fine line when wearing a scarf, the line between looking fashionable and looking like some one's babushka wrapped bubbe from the old country.


Here are some especially cute looks I found:

I love Missoni prints like this one. Or Pucci. Especially with the whole floral thing going on this Spring. I don't normally wear floral prints, with the exception of Lilly's, but these scarf inspired Prada shoes caught my eye also:
Or these way more affordable ones from Bebe:

These have me written all over them. So much that I may have to drive to my nearest Bebe in Gainesville to acquire them. I have the perfect one shouldered red, ruffled top to wear with them already.



I also found some cute scarf bows on another site, Universal Doll.

Universal Doll is a really great Japanese fashion blog. I don't know where she gets her pictures, but they are always fun.

So have a little fun this Spring with scarves. They are cheap for those of us that are unemployed or underemployed. I may even check Goodwill to see if there are any interesting ones there. Some of the best scarves I have ever found have been in the bottom of a thrift store bin.

For those reader that have emailed me about posting more pictures of myself on here in some of my goodies, I am trying. I have never mastered the art of the self portrait, and by the time my gifted photographer son gets home, I'm usually in pajamas. I've never figured out how she does it, but my favorite fashion blog of all is Karla's Closet.

I can only assume she has wonderful friends that follow her around and photograph her looking glamorous, but that's the blog I go to for fashion inspiration. She is amazing and seems to have an unending supply of incredible clothes, shoes, handbags, and jewelry. And here's the best part, now you can SHOP her closet. She is selling clothes she doesn't wear anymore on her site, which gives me the same great idea. Sometimes I buy something wonderful and wear it like once. Or never. I hate to just give good clothes to thrift stores and am too lazy to post on Ebay (though not too lazy to shop on it). What a great idea! Thank you Karla for once again having the best fashion blog ever!

If nothing else you can use your new Spring scarf to blow your nose in because of allergies. Everyone around me is sneezing and weaving around in an pollen induced fog, so all these scarves have to be good for something.

Now go be fabulous!