Comments on: Speaking of scarves

By: Earle Martin

Earle Martin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:05:00 +0000

Keffiyehs are /all/ over London at the moment. People clearly don’t know what they actually mean. My wife, being an Arab, was kind of pissed off at first, but now just rolls her eyes whenever she sees another fashion victim wearing one.

If you go to Urban Outfitters they sell them in a range of garish colours. (I mean, honestly, neon pink? Why?) I’ve also seen t-shirts printed to look like you’re wearing one. Sigh.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:34:39 +0000

It doesn’t look remotely Palestinian to me– more like general artiste. I’m from Boston.

By: Philip Newton

Philip Newton — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:32:15 +0000

Just a look, and I’m from Germany.

Oh, and wearing them as a scarf was fashionable over here about ten years ago, though not really mainstream… it went with a certain, I don’t know, hippy (perhaps) look.

By: Batshua

Batshua — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:37:25 +0000

I would probably just be baffled.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:08:18 +0000

Just a look, I would think unless I knew the person and knew that they were into the politics. And I am from the UK :)

By: Abe

Abe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:46:29 +0000

Oh, durr, your question. No, I’d take as as just a look, nothing political.

By: Abe

Abe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:45:55 +0000

(I live in Chicagoland, but I’m of Middle Eastern descent.) When I see people wearing those, I kind of just sorta roll my eyes — I kind of take it in the same vein as people who are all, “I WATCH ANIME, I’M SO JAPANESE!!! ^_^”.

I don’t personally think it’s offensive in any way besides “hey, someone’s appropriating something from ‘my’ culture”. But it does kinda strike me as tacky.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:26:21 +0000

I would probably just think of it as a look. (And not a good one, I find they look somewhat goofy. Sorry if it’s a cultural insult, but I am sure there are many in the world that think I look goofy, too.)

I’m in the DC suburbs, which you’d think would make me think political statement first, but I try hard to tune most of that out around here.