The internal battle rages on as to whether multi-purpose garments are frightfully clever or just plain hellish. Coats with detatchable sleeves that somehow connect with the waist to make a belt with a thousands of poppers to help you do so. The American Apparel scarf dress video that puzzled my friend to no end when she questioned whether ANY of those 15 ways of wearing the damn thing looks good at all. Shoes that double up as purses. Is trying to do too much any good if it can't do the one thing it's supposed to do well? I think I'll continue being skeptical until I'm smacked with a dress that unzips and suddenly turns into the door to Narnia.
This Alpha 60 pleated accordion scarf isn't meant to be multi-purpose per se but as dear Melbournian Kat of Style Lines discovered a while back, it is superb for creating a multitude of shapes without doing much to it given that it posesses a razor sharp accordian pleat in a light fabric that seems to have a life of its own. You sort of prod at it and it snakes around in a different way, tempting me to give it some sort of a pet name. Sharpie?
Going back to the multi-purpose question though. I guess, if you haven't paid a humongous sum for some wonder garment that purports to do a multitude of things, getting ONE good way of wearing it out of the damn thing isn't really the end of the world. The scarf didn't come with an instruction booklet so I'm not exactly going to be waving my fist at them and reporting this to Watchdog. That it does do a few things is a Brucie bonus. I used a puritanical outfit consisting of a vintage dress dotted with flattened rosettes and a Margiela skirt for initial experimentation... not everything is a raging success but like I said, no Watchdog complaints necessary...
