{"id":2491,"date":"2011-04-19T00:49:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-the-sca\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T04:53:00","slug":"rock-s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-the-sca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-the-sca\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock\u2019s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas: The Scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dashing!<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s finally starting to warm up, so I should have no business thinking about scarves for the next few months, but Robbie Robertson<\/strong> is showing up in the rock press to promote his new, certainly terrible album, and I’m finding myself thinking about the promise held by the silk scarf he wore in The Last Waltz<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I can’t stand wearing a scarf, even in freezing cold weather. They make my neck sweat and itch. I can’t get them to stay on my neck and shoulders. Within a few minutes of trying to wear a scarf I’m bugged that I can’t zip or button up my coat properly, and next thing I know one end of the scarf has slipped down and is practically dragging on the ground.<\/p>\n

When it’s really cold out my wife tells me I should wear a scarf. When I was a kid my Mom used to tell me to wear a scarf, too. I don’t get that cold, especially around my neck. Most fashionable accessories we cover in our ongoing series on Rock’s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas<\/a><\/em> are not regularly recommended by both wives and mothers, but the Rock ‘n Roll Scarf<\/strong> had the dashing mastermind behind The Band as an advocate.<\/p>\n

When I was 16 and running out to midnight showings of The Last Waltz<\/em> as frequently as possible I thought Robbie Robertson was so dashing in his silk scarf and velvet jacket that I briefly considered heeding my Mom’s advice and wearing a scarf the next time I was headed for the bus stop in sub-freezing temperatures. I actually bought a black velvet jacket and a Fender Strat. I thought that I might be able to break myself in on wearing a scarf in the winter and then eventually make the leap to the totally unnecessary, as far as I could ever imagine, silk scarf for indoor\/on-stage wear. Why not?<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you why not. No matter how cool I thought Robbie Robertson was, I continued to hate scarves. Rock ‘n roll scarves were a slippery slope, too easily leading to the\u00a0Bob Welch<\/a><\/strong>\u2013style cravat<\/a>. Or, worse yet, this <\/a>Rod Stewart<\/a><\/strong> get-up<\/a>. The pretentious indoor scarf is too much for me to fathom wearing.\u00a0Michael Stipe<\/a><\/strong>‘s the sort of irritating dickhead<\/a> for whom the indoor scarf was created, not me. Has any rocker “rocked the scarf,” as the kidz might say, or have they all ended up looking like the kind of person who might entitle an album Contact From the Underworld of Redboy<\/a><\/em>?<\/p>\n

As much as I desire the trappings of Edwardian-influenced<\/a> rock fashion, the scarf is not for me.\u00a0Last year, however, I finally did invest in a purple velvet jacket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s finally starting to warm up, so I should have no business thinking about scarves for the next few months, but Robbie Robertson is showing up in the rock press to promote his new, certainly terrible album, and I’m finding myself thinking about the promise held by the silk scarf he wore in The Last […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,344],"tags":[34,77,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}