Gloves, scarves, hats, umbrellas and socks.
These are the key accessories of the wintery season: details that are important to enrich the look you wear.
Both women and men depend on them. They are important to protect themselves from the freezing wind or, more simply, for pure habit. Functionality and vanity.
Maybe not everyone knows that even the Egyptians used to wear the gloves.
If the pharaohs used them to forge their ego, women wore them to protect their hands, applying precious unguents first.
Today there are many types of gloves: in leather or in shearling, with exposed fingers or completely covered. For the most daring, with bright prints and embellished with studs or other ornaments.
The scarf is the most versatile accessory: black and made by silk and cashmere for the night, in tartan or with stripes for the day, in wool or with shearling details. Many are its variations, often unisex, as the timeless skull scarf of Alexander McQueen. Kate Moss has worn it, as others fashion icons and for this reason, within the scarves, it is one of the most featuring of these years.
“He is not able to think without his hat”. Samuel Beckett wrote it.
This poetic vision of the gentleman recalls, in a certain sense, the aesthetics of the hat.
If the hat is not enough, there is the umbrella. An English accessory for excellence, brought to the arms of the men and women of the City even when the sun is shining, this product is the protagonist of memorable cinematographic scenes, as the one worn in Singin' in the rain of 1952 by Gene Kelly or by Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins.
To complete the list of the accessories for autumn/winter season there is the sock. For the women the range is almost unlimited: from the classic socks, in cashmere or in technical fabric, to the stockings or panty hose of Wolford or of Emilio Cavallini inspiration.
In lace, in plain colour or colourful, they are trendy if worn with ankle pants and leather moccasins, or sensual with a dress and a pair of stiletto high heels.
They are also within the proposal for men, save the white one. Long, short, ribbed or in smooth fabric, with dots or with micro patterns, the masculine socks reveal the person who is wearing them.
With these accessories, the winter season is livable, perhaps next to the fireplace drinking.
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