Vintage Scarves Part IV

Continuing my occasional series featuring my vintage scarf collection:- here are the pale-medium pinks.

Rialto - 70cm Cotton Charm from SS09

I really like this design by Perron and have 3 versions of it - 2 in cotton and one in silk:-

This particular scarf was a special edition for the Venice branch of Hermes and has written on it "Hermes Saluta Venezia" and "2008"

The design looks nice when worn, shown here using a scarf ring in two different ways:-

Flower Knot

Basic Fold and pulled through the ring.

Cotton Charm in a Cowboy style.

Another favourite design of mine - Kelly en Caleche from SS07 by Cyrille Diatkine.

I had to watch Ebay for MANY months to find this scarf!!

Worn Cowboy Style

and here worn simply round the neck to keep warm on a cold winter's day!

Finally my pale pink Expeditions Polaires Francaise which was from the AW09 collection.

Worn simply knotted around the neck similar to a cowboy style and a basic Fold pulled through a scarf ring.

So that concludes the pale -medium pink collection!

Tulips from Amsterdam

Last weekend my travels took me back to Amsterdam for a very quick visit to see the brand new production of Don Quixote at the Dutch National Ballet - it was very good, and very very funny, although my favourite version still remains that of the wonderful Bolshoi Ballet from Moscow.  No trip to Amsterdam would be complete without a trip to the street florist near my hotel!!  I plumped for some lovely pale pink and green roses (Kenyan though!) and some bright and cheerful yellow tulips with a tiny red splash of colour - as the tulips have opened up they look like tulips from one of the Dutch Grand Masters paintings!!

You must excuse the brown paper but the florist said I had to re-cut the stems then put the tulips in cold water as soon as I got them home, leaving the paper wrapped around them for an hour - this helps the tulips take up water and stops them flopping.

The Singel Flower Market - one of my favourite haunts!

Fabulous bulbs!

A grey day in Amsterdam looking at the back of the Singel floating flower market - you can see the backs of the shops floating on the right of the canal.

Venice & The Rialto Market

While on my trip to Venice I could not miss a visit to the Rialto Market. Anyone who knows me will know just how much I adore fresh food markets because they just do not exist in England in quite the same way as they do in Italy, France, Germany etc....there is just something so wonderful about seeing fresh produce beautifully displayed and the only sad thing is that being on holiday I had no need to buy anything!! Anyway here are some photos I took at the Rialto...

Fabulous fresh vegetables

Beautiful colourful fruits!

Artichokes carefully prepared and kept in water.

Anyone for beans?

Cute round zucchinis!

Amazing fungi - very uniform!!

See what I mean about presentation?

 

Fabulous fish.

Pass me my sword......what a spectacle this sword fish was!





         Octopus, crab and whitebait(?)

I hope you enjoyed this little trip around the Rialto Market - ciao!!

Venice & The Venice Carnevale 2010

I returned from my little trip to the Venice Carnevale a few days ago.  As usual there were so many wonderful things to see and fabulous Carnevale characters to see that I ended up taking over 1200 photographs!  Good job my camera chip is BIG!  So what I can share here really is the tip of the ice berg.  A lot of Venice is covered up again and undergoing renovation work, which is a pity for sightseers, albeit very necessary.

The weather was lovely when I arrived in Venice but being the first Sunday of Carnevale the city was really crowded. 

Plisse & Pleats Day

We are having a Plisse and Pleats Day on TPF today so I am wearing my new plisse that I was lucky enough to find on my trip to Venice this week.  The design is called La Legende du Poisson Corail and is by the designer Christine Henry.  The pattern represents a coral atol and lots of fish hiding in the reef - the shimmering water is represented by flecks of colour and each corner features a flying fish to symbolise the relationship between heaven and the sea.  I was not very fond of the desing in the flat but when I asked if the Hermes boutique had any pink plisses this is what the SA showed me and I loved it!

I am wearing the scarf in a flower knot today (first picture) but I tried out some other looks which I show below:

Friendship Knot

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
You can wear the plisse as a lovely shawl if you are going out in the evening - I fixed this again with a scarf ring in a small flower knot.  This shows of the circular design of this plisse really well too - IMHO!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And another flower knot - just to show how the knot never looks exactly the same each time you do it!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you found some inspiration!!

Amsterdam

I went to Amsterdam to catch a final glimpse of the At The Russian Court Exhibition at the Hermitage

- it was crowded and too busy to really enjoy it properly, but at least I got to see the fabulous Court dresses again with their amazingly intricate embroidery in silver and gold thread. 
(Photo credit  www.thoughts.com and Reuters)

Beautiful evening gowns were displayed in circular cabinets 2 of which rotated every now and then when a clip from the ballroom scene in the film Russian Ark was shown on the walls.  Some of the dresses were by the Paris Fashion House Worth - I adore dresses by Charles Worth they really are something special and the dress below left with the dark green velvet bodice and cross over bow is Worth worn by the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

(Photo credit www.15minutesmagazine.com  /Roger Webster)

Amsterdam was a bit grey and it rained a lot!

I was glad of a cup of tea at a restaurant and they had the cutest mini tea library I ever saw from which to choose my tea! 

I love Amsterdam's flower sellers and I bought some lovely tulips and roses to bring home - the tulips are so bright and cheerful!

My new Plisse!!

I was up in London last weekend and was thrilled when the SA at Bond St opened a drawer of plisses only to see a taupe Passage au Moscou starring at me - a colourway I had passed on twice before, so this time I made sure it came home with ME!!!  I have played around with it and here are some ways to wear a plisse:-

Simply wrapped from front to back, crossed over brought back to the front and tied in a Half Ascot knot  http://mylittlescarfblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Half%20Ascot%20Knot%20Video








The Friendship Knot
http://mylittlescarfblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/friendship-knot.html

Then a "knot" which I tie in the middle of the scarf then fan out to create the rounded bit at the front, take ends around the back of the neck and bring forward and tie in a knot inside the rounded bit.  It has no name as far as I know!

Short Flower Knot - take scarf from front to back, cross over at back and bring ends back to the front and use a scarf ring to create the Flower Knot effect.

Flower Knot - do one single knot, then just take a scarf ring and pull the edges of the scarf mid way down through the ring and pull to achieve this great look!

Then I did a Flower Knot without a single knot to start and just used the scarf ring alone which gives a bigger effect.

And finally if it is really cold out you can thread your plisse through a fur collar and tie with a flower knot/scarf ring as above!

Vintage Scarves III - The Purples

Here are my purple vintage silk scarves

Coaching AW09

Worn cowboy style it really sets off my favourite pink sweater!!  The colours in this scarf are really great.

Rythmes SS09

This is a very strong red, purple and yellow scarf!!  None of the colourways on offer from Hermes really grabbed me but I like the design a lot so I plumped for this strong colourway.

Looks great against black - here just folded into a triangle and draped around the neck and tied at the back - nearly cowboy style!

Here worn in the basic fold and pulled through a scarf ring