Scarves need a date

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worth-a-peek

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These came from the same estate sale.
A friend picked them up.

Probably will keep the Mexico one since I seem to recall I bought
a few souvenir scarves at the VFG Yard Sale.:clapping:

Anyway need date help on both as I'm not a big scarf person.
They aren't silk. No tags.

Love the graphics!

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Love all the cool sayings on this one!

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Thanks!
 
The 'hepcat' scarf is BEYOND great...please tell me if you list it....I am totally lusting after it!
 
Love the second one! Huba Huba?!?:hysterical: Somehow that calls to mind an image of some hepcat playing the tuba while using a hula hoop.
 
hee hee. I love the "generic" cola brand on that one.

hmmm... slang. You "Boogie Woogied" in the 30s and 40s, You got "In the Mood" then, but didn't get "In the Groove" until the 50s. You didn't "Dig" you, me or anyone really til the 60s, but I guess a few real trendsetters could have said it in the 50s and it just wasn't in the american psyche yet(???) Cutting a rug goes back to the 20s/30s I think, but was definitely in use in the 40s. I am wondering if the scarf isn't just a hair later but unless there is an earlier reference to some of these terms. i assume the most cutting edge slang wasn't printed on scarves as things don't have the immediate "i heard it on the bus/now i am going to create a shirt about it on cafepress when i get home" like today.

just a thought - even though the look may evoke 40s - could it even be just a few years past the decade?
 
GRRRREAT scarves, Karen! :singing:

i'd guess 40's for sure on the first, and the 2nd one could be too, but as Chris says, possibly COULD be a later tribute to earlier cool stuff, love love LOVE the colorway on it!!!

no matter, they are both crazy cool!
 
I see where the terms on the 2nd one might date it a bit later.

I associate the word "dig" with 50's beatniks and musicians.
Came across a Cole Porter song in High Society 1956 of Louis Armstrong.
"Just dig that scenery floating by"

found this too
From "20th Century Words: The Story of New Words in English Over the Last 100 Years" by John Ayto (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999)

: : : : groovy (1937) adj. In the groove (1932) performing well.

: : : groovy adj. 1 In a state of mind or mood conductive to playing music, esp. swing music, well; in rapport with the piece, esp. of swing music, being played. Orig. c1935 swing use, by musicians and devotees. Some resuurrected cool and far out use since c1955. From "in the groove."

Do you think I'm safe saying late 50's? early 60's? or just that I'm :clueless:
 
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