Or consider the widow whose husband died of cancer and who then started a business of knitting intricate scarves.
Those with houses still standing returned to gather valuable belongings which they tied in scarves and carried on their backs.
To this was added the cost of silk scarves for the captain, lieutenant, and serjeants, and the cost of their meals.
Married women covered their head with (yasmas /scarves) which were fastened around their buns or knotted at the forehead.
It is not just a shirt, but there are pants, socks, boots, badges, holdalls, scarves, hats— everything.
The temperature was minus 10 degrees and pupils were sitting wrapped in coats, scarves and gloves.
It is not a football stadium to which people come with scarves and rattles to support their side, come what may, right or wrong.
That was totally irrelevant to our needs at the time, except that the longer uteruses were quite useful as scarves!
