Scarves
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Fashion Files wrote about the Palestinian scarves and about a shop that sell them in all sorts of colors. The original ones feel a little old to me as they´ve been everywhere for quite a while. Lately however I´ve seen some girls wear them in hot pink, and I wouldn´t mind one of my own.
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March 25th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I have two of those in red and teal! They kept me warm the whole winter. You can get something verry similar to those in the states at urban outfitters.
March 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I got into the shop on ebay and i bought the brown one and de green one (not this in your picture, the other green one…) I love them! I’ll put photos in my blog, it’s in Spanish, but you’ll can watch them.
http://sidney1978.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the suggestion!!
March 25th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
that scarve n e v e r can be cool fashion !
March 26th, 2007 at 1:26 am
ugh, everyone and their mom who shops at urban outfitters has one of those in the states.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:12 am
i agree- they are everywhere in the states..i’m soooo tired of them -people are even making jokes about “stupid cobrasnake kids with their neck scarves” ..they’re horrible. i like your style agatha, but am so over these scarves, but maybe it’s different where you are.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:14 am
i meant agathe, sorry!
March 26th, 2007 at 5:14 am
I have a green one and a pink and purplish one from urban. These are not supossed to be sold in the stores because they are offensive to arabic people apparently. Whenever I bought them and looked the reciept, I wasn\’t charged for them. Maybe the code isn\’t in the system anymore. Oh well, I like them anyway.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am
According to Carine Roitfeld, this scarf is THE trend of the next winter (cf Balenciaga show). You’re a forerunner.
xxx
March 26th, 2007 at 10:29 am
the keffiyeh (ghutra, shemagh) is a symbol of arab and palestinian nationalism/ solidarity with the oppressed palestinian people. once upon a time it used to be alost as charged as wearing say, a nazi swastika. what is offensive is kids jumping all over it as soo as it becomes trendy with no knowledge of where it comes from/ what it means when you wear one.
I’m used to seeing nyc crawling with hipsters wearing them (usually more consciously than your average trendophile) but I find these garishly dyed ones incredibly offensive. and no I’m neither palestinian nor arab nor muslim, just aware
March 26th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Det knallrosa er fint! :) jeg klarer ikke helt å bestemme meg for hvilken farge jeg skal velge, må tenke litt på saken.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
article about urban outfitter ridiculous “anti-war” scarves. http://jewschool.com/2007/01/16/oddly-familiar-anti-war-scarves-now-at-an-urbn-near-you/
March 26th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
“I find it offensive that you would assume that a so-called “hipster†who decides to purchase and wear a kaffiyeh is automatically ignorant of it’s origins. It may shock the Jewish community to discover this but there are a very large number of non-Palestinians who view the state of Israel as the terrorist organization and support an end to what they view as the victimization of the Palestinian people. It turns out not everyone believes the pro-Israel hype they’re bombarded with on televison and in the newspapers. Now I’m not going to delve into why this may be since this discussion doesn’t concern that. However, in the case of such individuals, the scarf represents their support of the Palistinian people and a position against a war that is being waged against them, making “anti-war†a very appropriate name for the scarf.” -
This is a comment from the above website link, which I happen to agree strongly with. . . I mean if we’re really gonna turn it into a political debate, let’s look at every side of the picture. . .
March 26th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
i like these scarves, and i see what the previous person is saying. it’s interesting how our fascination with ‘otherness’ seeps into fashion.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Facts are clear, history is wrote with people, no with scarves!
March 31st, 2007 at 4:53 pm
i love wearing palestian scarfs to show my support for palesian. i don’t see them as a piece of fashion.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Det suger når folk kjøper palestinaskjerf uten å vite hva det står for! Tenk på det, folkens!
(It sucks when people are buying palestina-scarves when they don’t really know what it means…!)
April 12th, 2007 at 8:34 am
[…] A prescindere dalle ideologie politiche, stando a ciò che dicono Style Bytes e BGlam, pare che la kefiah sia tornata di moda come puro accessorio glam e al pari di una qualsiasi sciarpa, tanto che i colori sono piuttosto quelli modaioli e non riconducibili ad una qualche fazione politica. Urban Outfitters, per esempio, la propone verde, gialla, rosa e viola, mentre un venditore Ebay, parecchio lungimirante, ne ha per tutti i gusti. […]
April 19th, 2007 at 12:48 am
i myself is a palestinian im proud to wear it everywhere because it represents me not for fashion i dont know why they put like them here in the usa if its meant for us.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
I agree with ohdear completely, and as amany, also have been proudly wearing this scarf for years to show my solidarity with the Palestinian resistence movement and to show that I support the right of Palestine to exist (you never hear that phrase, huh? If Israel has a right to exist, why doesn’t Palestine).
It’s wonderful if people wear these scarfs to support the Palestinian people. But I am afraid many do not. The way Urban Outfitters and other designers have marketed this scarf has tokenized a huge political and cultural symbol. More offensive still is the fact that people have been ripping at this trend by calling the scarf terrorist garb, when in fact it is a political and cultural symbol for Arabs and some Muslims.
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/02/20/70843
August 5th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
FUCK FASHION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEAVY METAL FOREVER……
KEFIA FOR ALTERNATIVE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Where can i buy em, i dont wanna get em online…does anyone know plzzz XD
email me eezee_5_girl@yahoo.com
September 13th, 2007 at 11:56 am
it’s not a big deal.
great if you wear it to show your support for palestine.
great if you wear it cos you like it.
My friend’s palestinian . she thinks it’s pretty awesome people love these scarves so much.
Yeah okay so everyone has their own opinion about it.
People aren’t wearing them to deliberately offend .. its no big.
I like them.
I like the Che Gueverra shirts too.
Andy warhol did a work of him, i have a print in my room. Looks awesome.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:48 am
i really agree with ‘miss A’! i really dont think some people understand the significance of this scarf. i live in the u.k so i’ve never heard of urban outfitters until i stumbled into this website when i was tryimg out online shopping. i can tell you that most people in the uk (especially young teen girls) see this scarf as a fashion item and even celebrities these days are wearing them. i am all about believing and having faith in everything you do and i think that if u dont know what it really symbolises dont wear it! there are plenty of fashionable scarves out there! and come on lets admit it Mischa Barton has no clue whatsoever what these scarves actually mean, neither does she support palestine!!
on the other hand i am quite happy that this scarf got so much recognition because it is a step closer to making teens more aware of this subject. i just believe that this symbol should be respected and not used like an ordinary fashionable garment. it deserves more respect than that.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:08 am
I wear the red Saudi scarf (shemagh) and I was asked by people if it was a political or fashion statement. The truth is that I lived in Saudi Arabia and it’s just a sentimental, nostalgic reason for wearing it. I don’t think people should snap judge what a person believes or supports by the things they wear - because there could be a valid deep meaning behind it.
I heard that the so-called “Free Palestine” scarf is worn more predominantly in Oman.
November 18th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
where can i get deseee i really wont 1 but i dont wanna buy em online?
i fink u can get em from punky fish in milton keynes city centre!
December 13th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
YOU GUYS ARE ALL FAGS
ITS A FUCKIN SCARF…AND IF U WEARIN AS A TREND THEN FUCK ALL U POLITICAL WHINERS.
i wear mine with a vintage tee, and flat boots..and p.s: i am for the freedom and equality of all people…
fuckin americanos…lol..
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
Hey, I wear the red shemagh as well!!I was born in Saudi (although not Saudi myself) and also wear it for sentimental/nostalgic reasons. The whole trend thing is just whatever but I f-ing hate it when people call it a keffiyah–it’s a ghutra or shemagh depending on the thread color. The keffiyah is the little skullcap thing under the scarf part. So if you complement me onmy keffiyah, I will laugh at you.
And yeah the teal and pink colors are atrocious. They’re not necessarily insulting, just dumb, and they make the wearer look shallow.
Lolita bitches: who’s a fucking fag? The well-dressed vapid princess or those “political whiners” who actually have something to say that extends beyond the realm of material items? Yeah, and you must be talking about cigarretes when you referred to others as fags…y’know being “for the freedom and equality of all people” and everythin. ;) Don’t contradict yourself, sweets.
But since you mentioned it, I wear mine with sweats, jeans, vintage tees, sweaters, coats, hoodies, flat boots, heels, sneakers, flip-flops, whatever the hell I feel like.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
how the heck do you style/tie these scarves up?
email me please ituason@hotmail.com
January 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
You can buy these at Forever 21. Personally I bought one and have yet to wear it. I will be wearing fashionably because that’s who I am. I also support palestine and will try my best to keep it classy and with respect.