Vultuseide

  It does not protect you from the cold, but rather from the heat. Locomotive and engine room stokers used it to have a cloth on hand with which they could wipe away sweat.

    This simple way to wear a scarf needs no knot; it is generally used with evening gowns, partly out of habit and partly to not ruin a starched collar or bow tie.

  Giuseppe Verdi wore it and many pictures depict him with a scarf tied in this manner. To create this style you need a silk scarf of good consistency.

  This is a brilliant, if haphazard, way to wear a scarf, typical of a person who has to leave in a hurry, for example a tenor acclaimed by his public of admirers.

  A very useful knot, if one has a shirt with a detachable collar and has lost the special button; in fact, here the collar becomes an integral part of the knot’s structure.