Every woman knows how the scarf-makers tried. They snipped everything from chiffon to cotton to sensuous silk into triangles, trapezoids and squares. Givenchy and Balenciaga dappled the shapes with abstract slashes; Emilio Pucci colored them with wildly vibrant designs that looked like stained glass; lesser lights tried everything from polka dots to reproductions of Botticelli paintings. But even when the Mona Lisa was pulled flat over the hair and reefed under the chin, the result was strictly Ellis Island—that flattopped look, with a tail either drooping forlornly at half-mast or sticking out behind like the flight deck of the...
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