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I have never met anyone who wears scarves, I cant understand why anyone would. Why do scarves even exist!
@DinkaChica I think I mean a neck scarf, I'm not sure what a head scarf is unless you mean muslim-type head coverings, but I've never called those scarves, I would call that a burka.
@freemo a lot of (I think all of) himalayan women wear head scarves too(and it's not burka)
Neck scarves just look cool I guess, I wear them sometimes ๐คท
@DinkaChica Sorry you're right, I meant Hijab, not Burqa.
@freemo yeah that too๐
But I meant something like these pictures. Himalayan women(majority) are not muslim, their head scarves is more because of low temperatures prevalent in the area. It's now a part of their traditional wear.
@DinkaChica Ohh they look lovely of course :)
Yea there are many cultures with different sort of head scarves that go by different names, not that I know what those names are. Older russian women wear it a lot too.
@freemo russia is cold too. Even I don't know the names of these scarves, I just know they wear them๐
@DinkaChica Head scarves make sense to me. Especially in regions where you may not be able to buy a jacket due to poverty or just cultural norms or something..
Its mostly neck scarves I dont understand. Not sure what role they fill that a heavy outer covering wouldnt
@freemo so you're wearing a sweater and a jacket. But still a strip of your neck is exposed to the cold ruthless air. How do you cover it?
I'm talking about women apparel here because they have low cut necks mostly for fashion and all. Actually neck scarves are also for fashion mostly, people wear them in summer too
@DinkaChica I dunno all my jackets cover my neck when i zip it up
@freemo I don't zip up because how will my beautiful sweater be visible then? :p
@freemo to keep neck area warm/well sealed from cold... can also pull it up to cover face... what's the alternative? some complicated face mask hood collar? scarf is a simple modular component everyone could knit themselves if they had to... or are just awesome and like to knit.
@namark I dunno, like I said I never met anyone who felt the need to use one. My jacket covers my next just fine and even in arctic weather I personally dont feel much need to cover my face unless its really windy and negative. But at that point I'd use more than a scarf.
Nothing wrong with using a scarf just never actually met someone in real life who uses it.
@freemo well, I haven't met many people of any kind either, so maybe I'm just making it up... that said I'll be extremely disappointed to find out that people who spend significant amounts of time in sub 0C temperatures don't use scarfs.
They seal up a loose collar that might let the wind inside your clothes. The rate of heat transfer from your skin into air scales with the temperature gradient, which is reduced by keeping cold air at a distance.
I also wear one while motorcycling in the winter because exposed skin gets very cold at speed (high speed = thin boundary layer = steep temperature gradient). As a bonus, the scarf tucks over my nose and beneath the pads of my glasses to direct my breath away from the visor.
@freemo In the early times, people could only weave or knit rectangles. Those people promoted scarves and created a market for them.
@freemo Bro, they are warm. Try it. It's like wearing an entire extra layer.
I dunno maybe I'm weird but my neck is usually good, especially if i zip up.
@freemo Its not that my neck feels cold. I just feel way warmer in general with the scarf. Its probably just the result of extra insulation in an area with high blood flow.
@mandlebro Makes sense. My jacket has a high collar plus I wear a wide brimmed hat in the cold. End result is that I'm pretty well covered up.
@freemo
You've gotten a lot of responses already, but here's another practical one.
If you sweat under your coat and wear a scarf, you only have to wash the scarf. Much more practical than washing the whole jacket.
@freemo My aunts have gifted to me one this xmas. It is the third one, and i never have put it on my neck...๐
@mikelga lol I hope they arent on the fediverse :)
@freemo the most modern communication device they have seen it is a late 90s mobile phone, and they think
that it is sorcery!
@mikelga They arent wrong :)
@freemo especially when this very old fashioned but reliably phone gets suddenly reseted and the lenguage setting turns back in its original German option. ๐คช๐The phone is a SIEMENS. In that case they ask to me for changing the lenguage setting back to spanish. And i do not know nothing in german lenguage more than saying Hallo, hilfe, atchung, ja and nein. But i understood that sprache is lenguage by navigating every single menu option recursively... It was so grateful to learn the word sprache! ๐
@freemo do you mean head scarves or neck scarves?