I bought a Dunhill scarf on ebay. I is supposed to be 100% cashmere.

What surprised me is that it was rather scratchy. It had many small white threads in the fibers, as if some dirt fell into the threads before woving the scarf.

I have a herringbones woolen cap from Lock that has the same style of small white threads.

May be it is because the scarf is a herringbones woving too ?

I removes all the white threads and now it is much less scratchy.

I was in a Dunhill shop and showed the scarf. First they told me "nice scarf".

When I told that it was scratchy, they told me that it was probably angora wool. I showed them the lapel telling that it was pure cashmere and then they told me that it was a fake and that I have been crooked. And she added that she never had never seen this scarf in a Dunhill store.

I told her that Dunhill was selling so many stuff made by different people that it was difficult to know all. I tookd the exemple of the Dunhill logo which sometimes has a doty on the i and sometimes not. SJe told me that she has been 15 years at DUnhill and that she never saw any dot on the i. I have many pairs of old cufflinks, some bought in a DUnhill shop and the boxes have a dot. So she seems rather not trustworthy eventualy.

My opinion :

1) Why would someone make a fake Dunhill scarf? WHo cares about Dunhill scarves? It would be wiser to make Armani or Cerruti fake labels.
2) Why would anyone make a scratchy scarf out of wool while it is easy to make very soft ones with polyester ?
3) The label looks very DUnhill, even the 4 stiches holding the label are well made and in a blue color while the label is brown (the scarf is grey and navy). If I was making fakes, I would use a black or brown threads in this case.
4) The clerk of Dunhill suspected that thescarf was from internet and she may have told me that to make me stop buying online

Have you ever seen scratchy cashmere ?