Scarves

Has anyone ever seen the film Le Divorce? It’s not a particularly good example of French life or culture or anything, it reinforces a few stereotypes unfortunately acually, but there’s a line in it that IS totally true. Glenn Close’s character is a writer and says that one day she wants to write an entire book about French women and their scarves. The different ways they wear them and the different types and all that. I like regular American scarves, but I’m positively in love with French scarves. They’re huge width-wise and so incredibly chic. There are approximately a million and one ways to wear them and they go with absolutely everything. I only have one right now, but something tells me that by the end of this trip I’ll have a miniature collection of them. You can wear them like a shawl or like a regular scarf. You can put them over your head to cover yourself in case of rain, or wrap it so your ears are nice and warm. You can elaborately fold it so that your hair is covered to adhere to your religion or to simply add a sense of mystery to your appearance. Over one shoulder, over both around the back, swept up and around to cover your shoulders and neck and chest… there’s really an endless possibility. Every time I go out I watch the other women on the tram and in the parc to see how they do it and I’m increasing my repetoire slowly but surely. So I guess the entire entry comes to the conclusion that the French ceraintainly know how to wear a scarf!! (Even men wear them, though not nearly as elaborately, they just wear it around the neck as an accent piece.)