Different ways to tie and wear a silk square scarf

How to tie and wear square silk scarves in different ways

Square silk scarves are classic, chic and ladylike. They can look beautiful and stylish if you know how to wear them. According to scarf manufacturers Hermes, there are over 100 ways to wear square silk scarves. For example, you can wear them around your head to keep your hair in place, through belt loops on jeans and trousers to give a colourful belt look, tied around the neck for warmth and also tying them around the handles of your handbag to add a splash of colour.

In this article, using clips from You Tube, I will show you around twenty different ways to tie and wear a square silk scarf, including a very creative clip from Hermes. I hope you find these stylish tips useful.

Three tying tips.

All of these ways are quite formal and ladylike.

The first tip shows how to use the scarf as a headscarf, which is very chic.

The other two ways are idea to use over a jacket of top.

Two ways to wear a scarf with a work suit

These tequniques are quite formal and ideal to wear with your suit to work.

The first way shows you how to use a scarf to fill in the empty v-neck area when wearing a jacket.

The second way shows a pretty way to fold the scarf and wear over the top of the jacket.

 How to make a rosette with a scarf

This tecnique is really simple and the result is very pretty.

You could wear this style with your suit to work, but I think it is a little bit fussy.

Instead, I think it is a great style to wear either to a summer garden party if the scarf was a floral print, or if changed to an evening fabric, would look great when worn to a party.

 A cool, casual way to wear the scarf

The way that this scarf has been tied is a little bit more casual and would look great when worn with a shirt or sweater with jeans and boots.

 The Bow Tie

This is a clip made by Liberty of London.

It shows how a scarf can be tied into a bow tie effect.

Very effective if worn with a Jacket or evening tuxedo.

 A simple way to wear a scarf

This is one of my favourites, it is very simple to do and looks really chic. It is ideal to wear with both work and casual wear and would definately keep your neck warm

You can wear the ends hanging out as shown or you could tuck them away to make it look neater.

 How to tie a scarf in a butterfly wrap

This is a very simple and pretty way to wear a scarf.

It looks lovely when worn over a party dress as shown in the clip.

It would also look nice worn casually such as over a poloneck or v-neck jumper.

Now for something really creative!

In this clip, Hermes show 7 ways to wear a square silk scarf.

It is really amazing.

They show how you can make a halterneck top from one scarf, an idea suitable for both day and eveningwear and also how to create a top using two scarves together.

Ingenious!