Photo by facehunter
I’ve been alive for a while. I have lived through so many different trend cycles and seasonal weather changes. It is always fascinating to see how our global meteorological climate can impact trends. As the weather rides waves of chill winds to winter temperatures, humans must find a way to ’stay warm’, but more importantly ’stay in touch with relevant fashion trends.’ Just because it is mad cold, doesn’t mean u can sacrifice your alternative look.
It seems like the tube scarf is ‘gaining steam’ about becoming a solid option for alternative ppl who want to wear a scarf, but don’t want to seem ‘entry-level’ about it. The bro in the picture really seems to be protecting himself from the elements, while looking ‘like an interesting human being, based on the clothes he is wearing.’ I feel like the modern brand of the scarf is associated with a Jonas Brother/tween or something. Authentic humans must find a new form/function for the scarf, and you can see the flexibility of the tube scarf gives humans ultimate protection.
You can even bring the tube scarf over year head, so you don’t have to look like boring ppl who wear ‘lil beanies.’
Feel like I have read somewhere that humans want ‘options’/flexibility, which is why Coca Cola makes multiple products.
Tube scarves seem to be an interesting, flexible look for both men and women. Like a trend that only ‘bohemian consumers’ could/would implement. Like some sort of high level band that only people who ‘get’ the alt scene would even know about.
Scarves are rlly dangerous territory though. I really want to stay warm, but I don’t want to seem like I am ‘trying too hard.’ Feel like suburban tweens wear scarves to ‘look older’/seem like they are ‘from the city.’
I will never forget the altstreamification of the keffiyeh/Palestinian scarf. Feel like I watched this trend evolve, much like a proud father watches his son grow into an NFL player.
Sort of wish I could be a mainstreamer/attempted-’hipster’ who prematurely wore a scarf on a day when the temperature ranged from 59 degrees to 75 degrees.
Miss the era of girls learning how 2 crochet, then making ppl scarves as gifts.
Always start to ‘giggle’/’scoff’ whenever I see some1 of any age wearing a keffiyeh, the ’scarlet letter’ of an entryleveler.
It is important to note that ’scarves’ are simple items for manufacturers to make + get ‘huge margins.’ Really hope Target doesn’t start manufacturing them.
Worried that an entry leveler will wear his Am Appy hoodie, a palestinian scarf, and a tube scarf all on the same day in 2k13.
I am happy that the tube scarf has given me the opportunity to strengthen my personal brand, and distance myself from winter accessory trends that have outlasted their ‘useful livez.’
What do u use to keep ur neck protected from the elements?
Does a scarf fit in with ur brand?
Previous winter clothing coverage
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/02/are-palestinian-scarves-still-authentically-alt.html
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/10/the-pea-coat-mafia.html
Do yall think Old Navy fleeces will eventually ‘come back’ as an alt trend in a post-post-ironic way?
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66 Comments
first bitches!
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first.
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//////////Reply by Hobbs
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
@Hobbs, second….
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//////////Reply by Calvin
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
@Hobbs,
nigga where u been?
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//////////Reply by Hobbs
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
@Calvin,
Tax fraud bro.
third!
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can’t wear my keffiyeh ne more… worried abt the ‘tube scarf’. looks like a leg warmer on ur head.
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scarf rhymes with snarf
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//////////Reply by women's studies 101
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
@nrm, and also “this post made me barf”
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<3 snarfs
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The dude in the top picture has very big feet
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slowly losing my urge to buy diesel watches and drink hornitos…
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//////////Reply by Faisal
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@smith, lol
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Kinda want teh gurl form LIGHTS 2 soak a tube/scarf/old/navy/fleece via her piss and let me suck it all out.
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//////////Reply by anyomos
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
@teh, wtf
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//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
@teh,
just got real 4chan up in this bitch.
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
@generk witty cmmnt,
sory
just wanted to “express myself” but i guess i “went too far” and didn’t how well my words would coalign with the sense of humor of this site and it’s audience.
Anyone else remember LIGHTS? The girls was pretty hot i guess. Never actually listened to their music tho.
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//////////Reply by Jurgis
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
@teh, guess shes hawt for a chick and all, her music sux. mainstrm electro that thinks its indie. nothing moar gross that faux alt music.
shits played out. i’m on some 2074 shit.
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lolz
i hope the old navy fleece make an altironic comeback.
shit’s off the chain
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en route to old navy to get a fleece yall
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does any1 think the bro in the black scarf looks like a muslim broad in a hijab?
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//////////Reply by women's studies 101
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
totes what i thought but he still seems pretty chill
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//////////Reply by dc
//////////Posted January 9th, 2010 at 8:35 am
@Jurgis, that bro looks like a druid or one of the kids in the park that makes their own armor and sword-fights.
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Worried ppl will think I am entry-level for wearing my keffiyeh and peacoat…
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Oooooooh serious, can’t decide …. One half wants to mock and laugh… But another part thinks that its cold outside and just wanna be warm…. Always feel like a jonas-brodeur wearing a scafr , nervous about tube scarf making me feel like ______?
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Bro reminds me of the FL “Embryonic” cover, maybe that was the meme he was going for? That is a huge leather man bag protecting his left side from the elements.
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fore-scarf? makes you look like an uncircumcized peen… with the load being your words/thoughts/face-affectation… symbolic
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//////////Reply by jeege
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
@vlad, true dat
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 1:12 am
@vlad, ’so deep.’
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//////////Reply by pookie
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
@vlad, u win
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tube scarfs have been sold at am appy for ages. this is not a new trend. fuckin faget. carles i expect better.
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worried about the tube scarf
dont think it would work living in LA
fear looking like a douchebag wearing a tube scarf
in 90 degree weather
or would that be ironic?
dont wanna die of heat stroke
think the Krama would be more ‘relevant’ or even the tagelmust, u know 2ward off evil mainstream spirits.
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knit acrylic scarves from your “local football club” SG are the only alt scarves.
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european futbol scarf r bttr
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that 2nd bro with the black scarf looks like a Muslim terrorist
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my mom bought me a tube scarf for xxmas. she is pretty ‘freespirited’ and ‘gets my personal brand’ but feel like this is a sign that tube scarves are nearly mainstream.
still own a palestinny scarf that i bought at h&m 3 yrs ago. miss u, late high school/early college keffiyeh period. hope i can wear u again without ‘committing social suicide’.
sumtimes i wear it when i am home alone, and i sigh.
going to write a tmblr blog abt this.
peace out
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//////////Reply by dan-onymous
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
@chilisfan, “hope i can wear u again without ‘committing social suicide’.”
Chili’s def needs to be more of a judgment-free zone. But the great food is worth the risk.
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Why on earth did I put the main character of my short film in a keffiyeh? When I finally finish editing it, it’s going to look SO 2009. *sigh* – Love the Facehunter btw.
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//////////Reply by lykk
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
@Anton, it’s actually going to look SO 2kdouche
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//////////Reply by Anton
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
@lykk, Haha, true. Probably works for the character though.
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despite the giant tube scarf, this man is still poorly prepared for the elemnts. needs to ‘layer’ and properly equip his ‘entire body’ as well as his ‘neck/half head’
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Got over that flu hella quick
Kind of proud of my body’s germ warriors
Thnks b4hc and chilisfan for the support
Ready to face a brand new, shining Internet with a smiling(ey) face :0)
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 3:29 am
@apreludes, xxxx
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//////////Reply by apreludes
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 4:28 am
@b4hc, xx xx
one for me one for you
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Feel like ushankas are the keffeyah’s second cousin (or however u spell it), kinda went under the radar because they rlly cumfie.
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sleeping bags big in 2k11?
n e 1 else s000 over 2k10 yet? can’t wait 4 this year 2 b over.
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//////////Reply by smith
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
@flowers4alger-anon, was worried u had ‘passed away’
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
@smith, this bro is ‘played out’
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, i ran out of internetz!!!!11
//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
@smith, i’m never 2 far away.
‘my luv’s another kind’ – the grizzlies
‘absence will make your heart grow fonder’ – the impossibles
‘hi, we’re the impossibles from austin, texas’ – the 1MPO551BL35 from austin texas
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//////////Reply by d00dz
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
@flowers4alger-anon, OMFG ITS FLOWIES4ALGIE!!11!!!!11!SHIFTONE
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//////////Reply by chilisfan
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 12:32 am
@d00dz, sometimes wish flowerz4alg was the main writer 4 hipsterrunoff instead of crls
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That’s groovy !
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my granny made me a tube scarf
^_^
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
@TripStar, how authentic.
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//////////Reply by TripStar
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, must tell meemaw she is alt
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
@TripStar, h8 my fucking grandma [via shitty xmas giftz]
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From now on I will only wear American App. In a post-post-modernis society. Forecasting the irony of American Ap. Probably put me waaaaaay ahead of my time.
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carles
these new viralvids r creepin me out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrcQ1oZC9M0&feature=player_embedded
SHED SOME LIGHT
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
@cousins, ODDSAC
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Kind of makes your head look like a clit.
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Turtleneck-wearing = the new alt?
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//////////Reply by funky_rutabaga
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
@dan-onymous, AmAppy sells them in three colors, so they must be (in those three colors).
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//////////Reply by dan-onymous
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
@funky_rutabaga, Tricolor? must be an extension of the theme they established with “tricot”
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Tri-Blend Scarfs from AmAppy are significantly more alt than tube scarfs – don’t want them to go the way of the keffiyeh – AND it can be tied into a tube scarf.
http://store.americanapparel.net/tr445.html?cid=51
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i wore a tube scarf over my head last winter in the streets of toronto (high muslim population) and, as a young white male, felt vaguely funny/racist/too self-aware
but it’s canada, gotta protect from huge snow, right?
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//////////Reply by Tom Servo
//////////Posted January 9th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
@apreludes,
“and, as a young white male, felt vaguely funny/racist/too self-aware”
I think this is perpetually how all white male hipsters feel regardless of what they are wearing.
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never forget VagEYEna Man
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=fashion
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purple
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Lil fggy but acceptable in arctic regions/winter MurjNCz, robberies, and madCroosh Alt anon sex acts. IDK if I wnt 2B Ntrstng NEmore
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sixty-second
that’s alt, right?
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//////////Reply by a_nonnie_muss
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Make that 39th. w00ps, can’t count. that’s why i’m in college.
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looks like my alt peen (via foreskin)
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these have been around for a long time
feel sad that this website gets progressively less relavent as it gets older
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//////////Reply by d00dz
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@eliza thornberry, sometimes I just feel sad period
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ham happy
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Does any1 no the knit pattern for the green scarf?
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//////////Reply by d00dz
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@jjj, up up down down left right left right BA select start.. i think
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//////////Reply by Knobs
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
@d00dz, invincible knit [via contra reference]
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//////////Reply by pookie
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
@jjj, thot same thing. want pattern.
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FIRST.
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“protect ya neck”
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 7th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
@the wu, awww ima givitaya wit no trivia just lyke cocaine straight from bolivia
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//////////Reply by AstroCandy
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 12:09 am
@HJ, i’m the messiah, i set the microphone on fiya, rhymes that vary, and carrie like mariah
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 12:40 am
@AstroCandy, now u know nothin, before you knew a whole fuckin lot, yo ass don’t wanna get shot
//////////Reply by It's 4:20 soemwhere
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 9:19 am
@AstroCandy, rap rap rap rap rappity rap, have a sandwich and call my teacher, go to the mall and et some peanuts, lets do stuff under this chair, i dont care, im a player,
hideous
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I really hate to feel like I’m doubting you carles, but I am. this trend is so 2k9.7 and Target has been manufacturing those silly collegiate scarves since 2k8 back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth
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//////////Reply by Maxwell
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
@diggitydawg, agreeeed
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Just discovered the mobile HRO y’all, posting while eating a boutiquey sandwich at an alty bistro
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Also, is HRO the 4chan of the socially frustrated scene crowd? At last a non gadget blog that interests me
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//////////Reply by chilisfan
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 12:34 am
@Knobs, h8 4chan. plz don’t post here nemore. thnx.
~*~ChIlIsFaN~*~
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//////////Reply by poseur
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 4:22 am
@chilisfan, h8 femposer-carles HRO rip off blogs, plz don’t post on your blog nemore, tanks
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It’s called a ‘cowl’
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WRONG it’s called a SNOOD
http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/trends/2009-2010-autumn-winter/091022-snoods-fashion-trend.aspx
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//////////Reply by Lola
//////////Posted January 8th, 2010 at 2:25 am
@Goody, WRONG it’s called an infinity scarf
via everyone, and sheer obviousness
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The girl in the last photo [via 'glum' look] is s000 hot.
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I keep my neck warm with a dickie.
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Satin Scarfs Are Best.
Best Are Satin Scarfs.
Best Scarfs Are Satin.
Yup!!!
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jesus, can you learn to spell noramlly?
it is hrd 2 rd when u spll lyk this.
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When will writting/spelling like Carles become an outdated trend?
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I wish that I hadn’t missed the palestinian scarf trend, I’m seeing some people wear them now and I really wished I had done that years ago, they are really nice. Now I feel like desperately perusing etsy for an equally nice tube scarf, while muttering “fashion whore” under my breath.
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facehunter rules.
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bro. scarves in general are lame. around here theyre all worn by chicks and emo/scene kids who want to be fancy. i go scarfless all day
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Can’t believe no one mentioned his bag lol
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“This thing is a Thneed.
A Thneed’s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!
It’s a shirt. It’s a sock. It’s a glove, It’s a hat.
But it has other uses. Yes, far beyond that.
You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets!
Or curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats!”
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i’m getting all sad abt this kid i used to have a graphic design class with [via state college]. his personal brand was jason-schartzman-in-rushmore and he wore knit scarves in the summer.
miss u, schwartzman bro.
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keffiyehs are so 2k4 but I feel that even scarves have now been ruined by scene tweens. h8 u internet.
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//////////Reply by Chris
//////////Posted January 10th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
@ThatsnotAltbro,
agreed
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Muslim chic – The new thing? Burkas in for next winter?
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The tube scarf is actually too versatile to be just a scarf i.e ‘ways 2 wear’ [via am appy]. It can transform into other coherent clothing items.
Btw carles, I need u to make HRO mobiles’ keyboard lateral so I can actually type from iPhone. And great job on the mobile thing.
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