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Outlook Creative necking Wrapping up the latest scarves THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday March 1389 Page 17 way to solve that knotty iashion twist how to give any outfit a new enterprise Ity This season fashion experts and en thusiastic shoppers agree that the se cret to a wellaccessoried wardrobe is i srarf They utter the word with the confidence of a stockbroker with a solidgold investment tip They rhap sodize about its powers until they bring to mind those latenight TV ads for Vegomatic It slices It dices But the promise that a scarf is an allseason allpurpose fashion tool has solid backing In its January is sue Vogue previewed the fashion news for declaring The most versatile item a scarf Giantsized knotted and draped like a toga it now becomes a blouse a halter top a wrapped skirt Vogues vision of the scarf requires some fancy folding and perhaps some breathholding most women who swear by scarves think along the lines of Lisa my friend the scarfwearer who says I see a scarf as a fast way to change my look When I wear a suit with a jewel neck instead of wearing a necklace I can wrap a scarf so it looks like a turtleneck Or I dress up a plain blouse by wearing a scarf camp style Sometimes I wear a- scarf wrapped around my waist like a cummerbund Lisa may experiment with a scarfs possibilities to add color and personal dash to her outfits but she is selective about the type Only Hermes scarves she says Theyre large enough to be worn many ways the colors are beautiful and they are made from a lovely heavy silk twill I bought my first one when I was 13 1 was flying home from Italy and the scarf was duty free Last year I treated myself to the scarf Hermes featured to commemo rate their anniversary I now have Hermes scarves but ones on loan to my mother The cachet of a Hermes scarf is un- When a French astronaut joined a recent Russian space mis sion one of the things he packed was a special Hermes scarf The Parisbased Hermes family saddlers since 1837 began making silk scarves in when Robert Du masHermes introduced the first woodblocked design Jeu Omni bus Dames Blanches depicting a popular game from the Over the last years Hermes has created 900 scarves Now it introduces six de signs each fall and spring and updates 25 classics Many of the distinctive designs have an equestrian theme but the spectrum is quite wide A popular QUALITY SYSTEMS ACCESSORIES FOR HOME AUTOMOTIVE RECORDS TAPES CD J ECHO has done a lot for the tradi tion of wearing scarves by creat ing a wide array of affordable pat- ferns This MatisseInspired scarf will torn any outfit into art The idea that a scarf is a piece of art appeals to both fashionable wom en and designers Louis Vuitton will introduce scarves created by artists including Sol Witt James Arata Isozaki The consum er investment for these artworks If youre looking for a scarf in spired by great art but not requiring a great deal of money check out the catalog from the Metropolitian Muse um of Art which includes moderately priced silk scarves with patterns in spired from their Oriental and other collections The Guggenheim has of fered Picasso prints and the Museum of Folk Art has used quilt and folklor- ic patterns Wellknown designers have put their imprint on the accessory market by creating scarf lines Dior Chanel Kenzo Ungaro Givenchy and Gian- f ranco Ferre have created patterns to accessorize their de signs Expect to pay at least 100 American designers have also squared off their business by translat ing their distinctive look to this popu- preparation makes a lavish product for Hermes Each one of their intricate designs is silkscreened Theyre a great way to solve that knotty fashion problem how to give any outfit a new twist new entry Flacon is covered with perfume bottles another USA vividly portrays a map of the states It can take over two years for a scarf to go from drawing board to store shelf The painstaking process may require 12 weeks to create the silk screen and then vegetablebased dyes are applied by hand one color at a time Some designs need as many as 35 screens since colors are never overlapped A secret process seals in the luster of these silk squares Many New Yorkers have artfully wrapped their squareyard scarves which Hermes calls carres the French word for square and gone to East Street where the Hermes boutique was hosting A Scarf is Born This exhibition includ ed a silkscreen demonstration an ex hibit of favorite carres and a col lage of the ways women wear their Hermes lar accessory Most department stores offer scarves usually from to 75 created by favorite designers Ralph Lauren Perry Ellis Liz Clai borne Ellen Tracy and Anne Klein Scarves are such big sellers that most designers cant afford to ignore the market This spring Calvin Klein will introduce some scarves as will Coach Leather Long before designer labels held so much prestige Vera and Echo were familiar names to women buying scarves Both companies continue to put out lines of moderately priced scarves This spring Echo which has been making scarves for years of fers floral bouquets fanciful geome tries and nautical styles The wrapup on scarves A OUR LANGUAGE by Jeffrey McQualn Stylet refers to a slender probe used surgery to explore wounds Youll discover theres a helpful clue for spelling stylet thats in style In Britain brolly means umbrel la This usage may sound all wet to some but brolly has kept the British dry for more than a century Q When people pronounce the word perfect some stress the first sylla ble and others the second Which shoulii it be A Emphasize the first syllable of the adjective perfect however em phasize the second syllable of the verb perfect as in Perfect your pronunci ation That way your pronunciation will be perfect Despise looks down on or scorns You may not like this strong verb but theres no reason to despise it The adjective intrinsic describes a part thats essential or basic to the na ture of something For an intrinsic spelling 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