When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a designer.
And I always played dress-up with my mother's clothes.
I always took her jewelry and broke it all up, which she didn't appreciate a whole lot,
but I still always took her jewelry and I would take the little stones out of her jewelry and I
would put it on different things, especially on paper dolls. I love to play with paper dolls.
I never could draw very well, still can't draw very well,
but I am wonderful when it comes to a pair of scissors and paper. I can sit around and
cut out shapes and designs and that's basically where all of my designs come from. My girlfriends
would come over and I would make the dresses for the paper dolls and then we would take the stones
and we would stick those in their ear and we'd make necklaces. So that's why I've always enjoyed
designing and it's just more or less a hobby to me. It's really not work, it's a pleasure.
I remember years ago, my mom used to always wear scarves and I would make dresses out of the
scarves. I would just meet things with scarves. So now, since scarves are really a big trend,
I'm still getting to play in scarves and today I really want to show you some wonderful ways
for you to be able to wear your scarves because every lady that I've ever talked to, the first
thing they say to me is, oh I get the scarves home and all I do is just basically wear it one time and
I stick it back in the drawer. Well that's not what we really want you to do. We want you to wear
your scarves. It's time to get them out of the drawer and let's start wearing scarves again.
I hope today that this is going to teach you how to wear scarves and have fun with them. You do
have to practice on wearing scarves. You can't just, the first time that you tie it around your
neck, expect it to look right. I had to practice, you're going to have to practice, okay? Basically
there is two shapes of scarves. There is a square and there is an oblong. That's all you need to
worry about. There is different sizes. I find whenever I'm working with scarves, the best sizes
to work with is size 32, 36 and 48 inch square. Now if you're working with an oblong, there's
lots of different size oblongs and today I will show you different looks that you can get with
an oblong if you're using an oversized oblong or if you're using a small oblong. First of all we're
going to take and we're going to fold the scarf into a triangle and as you see I don't fold it
into a perfect triangle because we don't want the ends showing on the other side when you get it on.
Place it around the neck. Also all of the clips work exactly the same. They work like a pair of
earrings. They just clip open, okay? The clips should always be next to the chest.
Here we're going to take and we're going to push
this through. This is going to give you the size of the bow that you're going to get.
Take and clip it down, open it up just like a butterfly and you get a perfect bow every time.
We're going to take a square scarf and we're going to fold it in half
and then take opposite corners, place it around the neck,
get your ends nice and straight, then take your clip,
pull it up through. Here you can get that triangle collar effect. Bring it straight on up
and you get a square collar. Then to get that wonderful jabot look, take both edges at the same
time and pull straight down until your corner pops through. Do the same on the opposite side,
clip it down, fan it out. It gives you that wonderful jabot look. Now we're going to take
a square scarf, fold it over about an inch and a half.
We're going to make a great blouse to wear with that suit. Take and you tie a small knot in the back
and at the waist just tie a small knot. If the scarf isn't large enough, that's okay. Just tuck
it into your pants or into your skirt. You can also take a nice belt and you can belt it as well.
Here what we're doing is just pulling it until it fits you.
Put the jacket on.
That gives that wonderful blouse. A lot of times you don't have the right collar
to go with your suit jacket. This way you always have the right color. You can always
get the right shape of your scarf also. We're using a square scarf again. I want you to take and
pleat the scarf.
The first time that I ever tied a scarf I certainly didn't do it this fast so it does take practice.
You can't expect to take the scarf, put it around your neck and it's in perfect shape that time.
It's sort of like your hair. You've got to touch it, you've got to fluff it, you've got to work with
it. So have fun with them. Don't be intimidated with your scarves. Here we're going to take the
ends and pull it through. Get your ends nice and even. Once again clip it down.
Fan it out and it gives that wonderful fan effect. This is real good also
to wear underneath of the jacket.
Now I'm going to start showing you some different oblongs that you can use. I'm going to take it.
This is an oversized oblong. Take and fold it. Just keep pleating.
By the way this is Dina. She's my model today.
Bring it around. You've got your clip all open. Take and pull it through and then this opening
right here. That's where you're going to take the rest of your pleats and you're going to push it up
through. Also you know when you're working with a scarf you have to realize what texture you are
working with also. Not all textures work the same so just play with it and see if you can get the
effect that you're wanting. This time we're going to use an oblong scarf again and we're going to
fold the oblong in half. You're going to take and place the folded edge next to the neck
and get your end straight. This is basically the same way that I did a while ago with the square
when we were using an oblong this time. The way that you always get the bow is from the fold of
the scarf. Take, pull it and then open it up. That gives you that wonderful bow. Also you can take
and wear it to the side but if you want that same look
and you want it a little bit closer up you start a little closer up. A while ago I started down
here. Now we're going to start here. This is a great way to wear this with a jacket.
It more or less makes a wonderful blouse for you again.
So you really can't see that she doesn't have a blouse on or whatever so you can use it for a
blouse. Of course you can always use your scarves around the waist as well. Just take this oblong
scarf. You can see that I really like to use a basic black dress or a basic off-white dress.
No collar is real good just to have a jewel neck because then you can accessorize yourself.
Just take your scarf. Once again we're going to show the little bow here. Just take and pull it
through. This is a great look for holiday. You can put on a wonderful necklace. You can change your
earrings. Today we really don't have time to change every pair of earrings and all but you
definitely want to you know use large earrings is always good because if you're putting scarves
around your neck they're a little bit overstated. You don't want to wear a little small pair of
earrings so make sure that you totally accessorize yourself. I know a lot of you ladies out there
have had your collar done and you know if you're supposed to wear gold or you're supposed to wear
silver and the scarf clips and the scarf magics they all come in gold or silver so that's not
going to be a problem for you. Also if you've had your colors done and a lot of times you find a
dress and it's the wrong shade it's the wrong color it's very easy to buy a scarf that goes
with your color so don't go out and just always buy that new outfit just because you've had your
collar done and the colors are all wrong buy you some scarves put them around your face that's
where your color you've got to get your different color from is by the color that's close to your
face not what's down past your waist. Here we're going to take and do the old cowl neck. Why I
have this tag sticking out here by the way make sure after you purchase your scarf cut the little
tag off nothing looks any worse than to go around with your tag hanging out you can just take and
clip it then it just sort of feathers out all of the little strings will just pull right out so
make sure you cut those tags off. Take and fold the square scarf
you can get that old cowl neck look bring it on around and you get that bib look
just take and pull your ends through
just fan it out once again get it in place so that you look great
I've been showing you all the different ways that you can use a scarf clip now I want to show you
how you can use the scarf magic this is the item that I designed and manufacture in our plant
each one of them have a pin on the back side of them so that you can attach it after you
want to pull your scarf through they're the simplest thing that you can possibly use in
tying a scarf so let me show you all the different ways here once again we're just going to take and
we're going to fold the scarf into a triangle take both ends
and pull it through and you can't get much easier than that now can you just take it and just drape
it once again you would just pin it in place now I'm not going to be showing you and I'm not going
to pin each one of them but that's the way that you should look here we're going to take a shally
which is a 48 inch scarf fold it into a triangle place it on the shoulder
here you've got a large opening all you do is you just pull it up through pin it in place
that way you don't lose your scarf you don't have to belt it down you see the beauty of the scarf
there's two ways that you can use your circle also by taking and folding the scarf
basically you're going to be folding it into a bias scarf you want that little bit more tailored
look just take
pull it up and you're ready to go to work
I've had so many people to say to me oh why didn't I think to make these scarf magics well let me
tell you how I come up with it I was one of you I used to put on a scarf I would tie it in a knot
there'd be a big old knot sticking out here I would get it up on my shoulder and I'd look good
the time I left the house my knot would be down here I just put it back up so I really got tired
of it so one morning I was getting dressed and that just kept happening to me so I went over
to the office and I got out my paper and my scissors going back to my paper doll days
and I cut out a shape and I took it back to the metal shop and I said hey guys I want you to
shear cut this out and then I took a hammer and I sat there and I started hammering on it
and I said this is going to be wonderful for scarves we put a pin on the back side of it
and by the way this is the first design that I made on the scarf magic so I ran over to my office
I put my scarf on it looked great I was so pleased with it so that's how I basically come up
with the scarf magic designs because I couldn't wear a scarf either so don't be intimidated
because you don't know how to wear a scarf because not everybody out there does that's for sure
okay here we're going to take and we're going to fold the scarf
I'm going to bring it across the shoulder
instead of tying that big old knot just take it
run it through your loop and each one of the loops work the same way
either if it's a circle or if it's one of the two whole ones
okay here we're going to show you how to use the twin hose we've showed you the loop we showed
you the circle and every one of them basically work the same way whether you want to wear it
around the neck or if you want to wear it at the waist this time we're going to show you at the
waist this fold you can of course use an oblong scarf or a square scarf with this
this just take both ends and you would want your hose up at the top not at the bottom
okay so that it will lay right take and push it through and then take it back through the other
hose that gives you that wonderful waist wrap
when you're wearing a scarf you really don't just have to wear a scarf and a scarf clip
you can also wear jewelry with your scarf here we're going to show you
that you can get that nice chunky look
she has her earrings on and she has her necklace
and you can still wear a scarf as well
this is one of these hard ones again so all you do is just pull it through
and you would pin it in place and as you can see how i'm standing here and i'm padding this
this is what you've got to be able to do too stand there get it in place make it look good
before you go out when i'm out doing these scarf demos people are always asking me well
what size earrings should i wear what size necklace or should i even wear a necklace well
i feel like that you can wear basically anything that you feel good in but i will say this if
you're going to be wearing an item of this size you don't want to be wearing a small little
earring you do want to portion yourself out so keep that in mind also also whenever you're
getting your scarf clips keep in mind if you have a pair of earrings that will go with that
because you do want it to match you would want your finishes to match whether it's shiny or where it
is a matte looking finish you want it to be gold or you want it to be silver just get that total
look you know if you look good or not right here we're just going to take them we're going to fold
the scarf again into that little triangle this time we're going to put a little collar on her
we're going to show you the tuho a while ago i showed you how to use it on the waist
now we're going to show you how to use it at the neck or just take it and pull both ends through
tie it one time you don't have to tie it in a knot it's not going to go anywhere
take these ends you don't want these little rabbit ears sticking out so just take it
push it back through on each side
now don't you wish you had come up with this idea since it's so easy
once again you would just pin this in place
when you're selecting your scarf you need to make sure that you're picking the right color
you need to know what size that you're wanting to wear what look are you really wanting i think
after you've seen the tape today that you'll be able to realize that what size scarf what
look you're really after so if you're using a scarf clip you need to either buy a silk scarf
a cotton scarf or a poly scarf those are lighter weight scarves so the clip works much better
if you're going to be wearing a shali scarf you need to be buying the loop that's what these
loops are for and there's basically only three shapes in the scarf magic you have your loop
you have your two hoes and you have your circle and each one of them does a different function so
i think you've seen though today it is easy to use the scarf magic i have met so many of you in
the past years when i'm out doing demonstrations in the store and the one question they always say
to me oh i i can't do this when i get home yes you can do this this is why that i have made this
video for you so that you can set home get in front of the mirror and practice remember practice
makes perfect you won't learn it the first time so just keep on practicing and everyone
keeps saying to me oh i wish you could go home with me well here i am
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