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5 Ways to Wear A Silk Scarf | ft. “Adrift” from LHP Collection

posted on February 28, 2014

Ways to Wear A Silk Scarf


So I made this pretty scarf. I ordered the fabric in November for a customer, and it never arrived, and it had to be reprinted, so it was quite a while before I could get my hands on it, but eventually it was here, and it was gorgeous, and I made a scarf with it. I spent two days fighting unruly thread and learning my way through hand-rolling a hem.

I was thrilled with the result, and was ready to model and photograph it before mailing it out. (The entire reasoning behind building this collection on preorders is that I can’t afford (nor have room) to make up things and hope they sell.) So I spread it in front of me…

…and I realized I didn’t have the faintest idea how you’re supposed to wear a silk scarf. A square silk scarf, to be specific. Actually, a square cotton silk scarf, but the problem was the square bit. I have plenty of long, mostly knit and crochet, scarves that I can do super crazy things with (that I also learned on the Internet), but I’m not a silk scarf person — I wear scarves to keep warm and silk has always felt weirdly in between — too warm and too cool at the same time.

I have to say, though, after researching it? I could be into silk scarves as neckties. Every other way I included here, though, is just for show.

5 Ways to Wear A Silk Scarf — ft. “Adrift” from LHP Collection

The Scarf

Adrift Scarf

Cotton silk from Spoonflower printed with Adrift, a photograph I took of an autumn leaf floating on a fountain on the way up to my library. Handmade with a hand-rolled hem. Approx. 34″ x 40″ in size. Not yet available for sale — unless, of course, you reach out to me personally. Pre-order price is $75 for cotton silk and $110 for silk crêpe de chine.

In these photos, I wore it with a light gray long-sleeve top from C&A and my everyday black glasses from Zennioptical.

1. Loose Tie

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2. Triangle + Knot

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3. Neck Tie

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4. Head Scarf

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5. Halter Top

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Do you own any silk scarves? What’s your favorite way to wear them?

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16 Comments

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  • Brianne @ Lamm to the Laughter

    What great timing! I just added a beautiful new scarf to my collection that I bought at a horse show last weekend. I love to check out the Brooks Brothers scarf tying tutorials all the time, but once I decided to rope my pearls around my scarf into sort of colorful scarf/pearl necklace combo and I LOVED IT.

    There are some great videos here on how to tie them, too.
    http://www.brooksbrothers.com/how-to-tie-a-scarf/how-to-tie-a-scarf,default,pg.html

    I’m jealous that you can make these yourself!

    • Lix Hewett

      Ohh, that sounds brilliant! I love how mine turned out but I don’t know how convenient it is that I can make them since the custom fabric is so expensive, haha.

  • Sara Strauss

    That scarf is absolutely beautiful! The colors are so lovely!
    ~Sara

    • Lix Hewett

      Thank you!

  • Natasha Hoover

    Beautiful! I’ve always liked the way scarves look on the rack, as it were, but have never really figured how to wear one properly.

    • Lix Hewett

      Thanks! And yeah, same here – I got a few square scarves a while ago from a box of my late grandma’s things but I’ve never quite figured out how to wear them. Though actually I put one on as a necktie once for an outfit shoot! Mostly though I forget they’re there. /o

  • Lanas Art Studio lanasart

    Number four is my favorite… and your scarf is just fabulous! color choice just fantastic! I’m collecting scarves from everyplace I travel… I even have from London… little bit “cheezy – commercial” … but I love it anyway. Thanks for sharing!

    • Lix Hewett

      Thank you! I really love how it turned out. I don’t collect anything but I’ve amassed a number of scarves since I started selling on Etsy – trading will do that to a girl. :P My most recent acquisition was a super long dark gray stretchy cotton scarf printed with a Jane Austen quote. I love it.

  • Lix Hewett

    Thank you! It was a part trade/part payment thing – I love doing stuff like that because it means I don’t have to spend money on materials and I don’t have to keep the thing lying around hoping it sells, haha. I have a few square scarves in my closet that belonged to my grandma but I really had no clue how to wear them before I researched it for this! I really do love the loose tie and necktie styles so maybe I’ll pull them out sometime. :)

  • Jessica

    Love all of these ways to wear it! Especially the neck tie look. You look beautiful! :)

    • Lix Hewett

      Thanks so much!

  • stylehonestly

    Lovely scarf! I love how many options there are for scarves…these are all completely different than the ones I posted!

    Tiffany Ima
    Style Honestly

    • Lix Hewett

      Thank you! Yeah, when I went into your post I was surprised those were all head scarf styles! Which are awesome, but I maybe possibly didn’t want to mess up my hair too much when I shot this, so I only tried out a couple of ideas on my head. (The other one involved using it as a hair elastic, which might have worked with a thinner scarf… or longer hair.)

  • DemyBlackDesign

    I love all ways how to wera it! And great scarf I have to say!

    • Lix Hewett

      Thank you!

  • Emma Tilton

    Great post! I included it in my latest “Massive List of Links” post
    (http://itsemmaelise.com/post/78652228099/massive-list-of-links-part-10).
    Thanks again for sharing!

    ♥emma
    http://www.itsemmaelise.com

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