O'Connell's

Check scarves all the way for me. I already look like I'm going to a fancy dress party as a 1950s professor - a college scarf would be overegging the pudding. But I'm sure some of you lot can pull it off.

One year J. Press was giving the school scarves away, I mean a serious discount, to $30 or something. I bought a big pile of them.

Sierra Trading Post sometimes has some nice wool scarves too.

Last winter was so mild I barely broke a sweat going in and out of overheated buildings. Didn't deploy a scarf until a late cold snap in January.

The only scarf of that sort that I have is a Balliol scarf. I believe it is my third. One was stolen while I was at Balliol. The second I accidentally left in a restaurant about 30 years ago, and the current one I bought not too many years back. I wore it a lot while walking my dogs on chill nights, but since I no longer have I dog, I have almost no occasion to wear it.

I rather have the sense that college scarves here in the States are mostly a northeastern thing, but I could be mistaken about that.

Getting back to Balliol scarves, when I was "up," you could wear a college scarf, a college necktie or a college blazer. You could combine two out of the three, but wearing all three together would definitely be considered (in contemporary American parlance) "dorky."

/\  there's nothing wrong with a cashmere scarf in a muted color, and there are no "Americans longing to be part of old Europe" ......

also, what is this "AAAC" you mention so frequently?

I like my Burberry, fits with almost everything. Like my J Press college scarf also.

I sense little enthusiasm, in England anyway, for the college/school/university scarf.  I love 'em and have just bought another, by Ryder And Amies (who also do nice, discreet ties).  This is between duck egg and sky blue and will be neatly folded away with the others until the autumn.  The first I owned was a kind of gift from my second wife, a graduate of Warwick University, and I've simply gone on from there.  O'Connell's do them and I don't think they have the same 'off' connotations as wearing, say, an Old Etonian or regimental tie.

I think they were being offered at Chiltern Street relatively recently. 
Didn't one of TRSs friends, either Mark Collins or Gary Isaacs, sport a duffle coat, college scarf, Argyle socks and loafers combo?  What could be more Ivy than that? 
I buy one whenever the mood takes me: at least a couple a year.  A bottle green/yellow stripe is the current favourite.