Snood for Thought

(Image via Times Online)

I know how you feel about a snood. But I have to say that I am becoming more and more inclined. And flicking through the Times Style magazine this weekend I found this and it sealed the deal. Look how awesome that girl in the middle looks. OK, so it is warn more like a scarf than a snood per se, but there is no denying that it rocks.

Unless you want to deny it, of course. But wouldn't that just be churlish of you?

You Snood, You Lose

Oh Good GRIEF! What fresh hell is this?

(Image via Net a Porter)

Whizza mailed me yesterday morning and kindly reintroduced me to the snood. She said they made her feel 'funny' and I presumed that wasn't funny ha ha. You get me? And then here you all getting all snooded up. I am firmly rooted in the school of thought that in the cooler, winteresque months a hat, a scarf, and an up turned collar will suffice but perhaps that is my Northerness asserting itself. The snood just seems too tubular. And the word tubular is odd. Now I feel funny.

She alwso sent me pictures of dogs in snoods. Which is funny ha ha. But why would a puppy need a snood? Has the world gone soft?

In the Snood for Love

I once had an American boyfriend. Inevitably his name was Ryan. He was something of an intellectual but surprisingly (for most intellectuals I know are depressed and disconsolate) he was also an unabashed optimist. His favourite phrase was "it's all good!" and he genuinely meant it. I also used the phrase but it was always laced with irony and a grimy hard won cynicism and I rather suspect it might have rained on his parade somewhat. I think the good people at Net-a-Porter have been hanging out with him, because I assume that is where they are going with their headline, even though it doesn't rhyme. Or am I again being terribly English by assuming it rhymes with booed?

But honestly the question at hand is, is it all snood? I remember my mother had a mint green snood in the 80s that matched a mint green ski jacket. I coveted both of them desperately. And I'm sure that on the slopes she was quite the envy of every snow bunny in a five mile radius. But it was the 80s and things have since moved on.

When the suggestion of a snood was first touted a few weeks ago I thought it would take some feat to convince me of its merits, but with this little Burberry number I actually could imagine myself giving the trend a bash. Is it a mistake to even dally with such a suggestion?

(Images via Net a Porter)

This Missoni version, however, makes me think that the poor mannequin, maybe after a heavy night out, has mistakenly wrapped a damp bath mat around its head and the musty aroma has not yet aroused its suspicions as to the severity of the situation.