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Monday, 15 August 2011

In love with Liberty

Posted on 20:59 by kumar

Mmm. Not the best pic to showcase my Liberty of London silk scarf collection, but you get the idea. Liberty is famous for its lovely prints, and though I have never found, say, a Liberty dress (my twin sis had one in high school that we lost track of over the years, for shame, as it was gorg), I have always been able to dig up the lovely (hand-rolled, I am quite sure) 100% silk scarves in the thrift shops.


I love the pretty colours and pattern on this one. I can't recall where I found it but it wasn't expensive. When I wore it one day at my former job, a colleague told me she had one just like it that she had acquired in maybe the 1970s, go figure!



The red one that was the first in the lineup was a gift from my sis, and it bears a cloth tag with the Liberty name on it. But more often than not, the ones I have found have the Liberty mark printed right on them - I am not sure if that indicates they are older or more contemporary, but I suspect the latter - anyone know? This one was a gift - in fact it used to belong to dear Minnie, who I have told you about in this little blog.



I found this one, a fave with gorgeous peacocks and flowers all over it - for maybe a buck at a junk store. It's in mint condtion though it lacks the registered copyright symbol - so is it a fake, I wonder? It doesn't have the same hand-rolled look to the edges, which makes me wonder ... but still, I love it.


I haven't washed or pressed this one as it's a recent buy, and it is the most costly Liberty scarf to date - $19.99 - but I loved the colours so much that I couldn't resist. Truly, it's not in the best shape as my others, but I have never seen a Liberty pattern quite like this (except recently, after I bought this one, on a fellow blogger's site, I did see some shorts in the same pattern!). I don't wear my Liberty scarves that often but I can see myself donning this one often as I AM a bit of a purple queen, doncha know ....
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