The Best Men’s Scarves Tie Every Cold-Weather Fit Together

A red scarf not only brightens your day, but everyone else’s around you. This one was carefully designed by Lands’ End to feel like cashmere, at a noticeably non-cashmere price.

That minty green shade would’ve been enough for inclusion, but when you add two large pockets, all for less than $50, you make yourself undeniable.

If you don’t love the feeling of excess fabric falling down your chest, spring for Our Legacy’s much warmer take on the neckerchief.

Another bandana-shaped option from a fashion-guy approved brand, Margaret Howell’s 100% lambswool scarf covers every area you need it to and none you don’t.

As the two picks above show, shopping for scarves allows you to enter the luxury realm for much less. Here’s another example: Legendary London tailor Anderson & Sheppard sells practically nothing else for under $100. Plus, those dots are sophisticated as anything.

Or keep it patriotic with this all-wool stole from Polo—some extra horsepower’s never a bad idea.

No shade to the M, but I had to double-take when I saw that Madewell made this. The color blends here are so subtle, but so special.

True cashmere is hard to find at this price point, but sometimes weaving just a little of the stuff into your wool—as Barbour has done here—softens everything up just so.

Want to go bright red, but with real cashmere this time? Banana Republic has got you. (And in five other colorways, too.)

100 percent cashmere, woven in England, and in a color that will never lose its royal associations? Right this way, sir.

It’s not cashmere, but it is understated, versatile, and accompanied by mfpen’s fashion-insider bat signal logo patch.

It’s always nice to find a plaid print that doesn’t stay too loyal to muted Scottish patterns. This green is almost neon, but see that pink, too? It calms things down just enough.

And now for something completely different: Nanamica’s scarf is basically a tiny down puffer. That’s right, this scarf has feathers.

Pitch-perfect with or without a suit to match, I see this as the more serious alternative to the Barney-purple scarf above (from the same collaboration.) If you can spring for both, you’ll never need a third.

We now enter the world of exquisite, stare-at-all-day designs. Before Drake’s was the menswear behemoth it is today, it made its name from the intricate patterns of its silk scarves. This Mughal print has been a brand mainstay since the late 1970s—you’ll be wanting the print on your rug next.

I’d wager that in the last decade, Acne’s tasteful checked mohair print scarves have been the biggest thing to happen in the scarf world. There are now countless colorways—including color-blocked bright ones you’ll spot from a city block over—but I’m a little more into this peaceful arrangement these days.

Handwoven in Tibet, with a loose weave developed by a master weaver who thought to use only two of the four pedals on the loom—at this price point, we’re now in the territory of magical pieces and textures you really can’t really mass produce.

So you liked that purple up top? Here it is again, except this time, it’s faux-fur, satin-lined, and huggable.

With the kind of dense weave that only Scottish mills can promise, this full cashmere scarf comes in tones that are close to the Madewell blend I loved higher up—except this time, they’ll feel like butter on your neck, for all time.

One of the biggest names in Scottish cashmere, with a history going back to, yep, 1797, Johnstons of Elgin scarves are the ones I wear. Though I’d trade in all my darker ones for this baby blue and gray masterpiece.

Missoni’s iconic zig-zag motif debuted at its Autumn-Winter 1967 show—and wearing it today will mark you out as a true fashion respecter.

Speaking of designers who made a particular type of pattern their own, no-one blends tiny stripes together more satisfyingly than Sir Paul Smith.

The always contemporary-feeling Elder Statesman has actually been perfecting its cashmere knowledge for over 25 years. And now, they have a scarf that doesn’t just feel like butter, but… you get the idea.

Few of us ever get to even feel cashmere this thick, let alone own, wear, and use it as a pillow on long journeys. Thanks to Uruguayan luxury designer Gabriela Hearst, all three are now possible, if you have the savings.

Burberry could easily have rested on its laurels and stuck to its classic prints. But it’s nice that they didn’t—the beautiful, newly-revived logo is a rare case of one deserving a patch that big. And the glowing green wool is almost an engineering feat in itself.

A design from the Japanese fabric masters that says I take care of myself, but I still see the world.