Things have changed since the days when extended make-out sessions with the captain of the football team meant you’d be wearing your whale-patterned turtleneck the next day.

Specifically, nowadays you wouldn’t be caught dead in a whale-pattered turtleneck.

So what to do when circumstance requires that you cover up? Get a cashmere scarf from Lorraine McCue. With the Scottish Borders countryside as her classroom, she creates lightweight, luxurious winter accessories that we can’t wait to wrap up in.

Her knits reflect her natural surroundings with textures like ripples, bumps, furrows, and bubbles. The fuzzy pom-pom style ensures cheerfulness throughout the winter. And the rich cashmere will prove to everyone that your morning-after tactics have grown up considerably.

Even if your night-before ones haven’t.

Available online at virginthreads.com.