I talk a lot. A lot about how I am going to write all these exciting new rants. Guess I talk a little too much. Instead of dwelling on the past though, let’s get into yet another one of my pet peeves.
Can someone please tell me when the hell scarves became a fashionable accessory? I first started noticing this disturbing trend during the spring of my senior year in high school. This one girl who I already did not like at all, started wearing scarves every single day, even though it was now spring and winter (when scarves are usually worn) had come and gone. This girl however did not just wear any old scarf. Instead, she chose to accessorize her outfit each day with a matching scarf. I imagined her closet having an electronic tie rack only filled with obnoxious, multi-colored scarves. Why would someone feel this would be a good fashion movement? Yeah man, I wanna go drape cloth over my neck. Why? Oh cuz that will be cool, I can get some decent neck sweat going and show everyone how much of a giant tool I am that I actually spend time in the morning picking out a scarf, I’m wearing yellow today because there is yellow writing in my shirt, see it matches. PUHHH-LEAZEEEE
If this girl and her constant shuffling of scarves (how annoying is this word to write) not enough, I then came to Ithaca. There are about as many scarves here as liberals. But why, oh why, do I have this hatred for scarves. Do I associate them with the girl who I did not like and her scarf fetish? That cannot be the reason, I would never let one person ruin an entire peace of clothing for me. I think I don’t like that wearing and accessorizing scarves has turned into this fad that is now everywhere. (We can have a fun time on this site counting down the 10 dumbest fads of the last decade. Do you smell that? I think it’s a future article)
Back to the point at hand though friends, and that is the wretched scarf. I know that ladies think they are trendy and cool with their scarves, but I cannot disagree more. You aren’t trendy or cool, you’re just following. I allow scarf wearing when the weather calls for it (and hey, that’s a lot of the time in Ithaca, NY), but why do these girls keep their scarves on once inside the moderate temperatures of a building. That is what I do not like. Sure, wear a scarf when it’s cold out, hell wear two. But when you are inside (or when it is the spring!) what’s with the scarves? They aren’t performing their primary function, they are just there as window dressing.
No matter what though, I have accepted that this fad is not going away. I am only one man and there is not much I can do to rebel against the army of scarves I pass every day.
All I can do is rant about it. I guess that will have to do. Enjoy your scarves oh trendy ones.
