Ooohhh it’s nice to be making outfit posts again!  Yesterday I went with my classic favourite combination: teal and brown!  I highlighted it with a gold sari sash which just made everything feel so rich!  Whenever I’m having difficulty figuring out what to wear, teal and brown is my go to.  It always makes me feel great!  Props to my husband for seeing the awesome lighting on this wall and taking the photos even though it was the middle of the night!

This new sari sash is one of my faves… it just matches everything!

What is your “go to” color combo that always makes you feel great?  Let’s inspire each other!

All my love,
Andrea

Lots can be said about the effects of wearing a tichel in day-to-day life… but one thing’s for sure: people will say the darnedest things! Whether the real reason we cover is for religion, medical or personal reasons, it won’t stop people from taking their best (or wildest) guess at what we’re up to!

We asked Wrapunzel fans for the silliest or most unexpected tichel comment they’d ever had. Boy did we get some great answers!!!

 

Violeta: “An African employee at Costco always gives me a smile when I wear my tichel to shop. I’m hoping it reminds him of home. When I wore my tichel to school for one of my daughter’s events, one of the other moms asked me if I was dressing up as a fortune teller! D’oh.”

 

 

Robin: “My favorite happened in an airport when a man went running by me shouting, ‘I love your hat!'”

Susie: “I got asked if I were Buddhist in the market.”

 

 

 

 

Amanda: “Last week someone asked if I was from Sierra Leone. And a while ago, a stranger reached up and squeezed my shaper (!) and said, ‘You must have a lot of hair!'”

 

Naomi Rose: “I was recently meeting with an insurance agent at a Starbucks. He was taking a bunch of notes on our conversation. This older guy came up to us and asked if the insurance agent was a reporter, and whether I was from Bosnia.

Another time I was in a department store and a guy yelled, “Hey, are you from Holland?!”

One of the best was when an African exchange student at my university came up to me and said that my scarves reminded him of home, because all ladies wrap their hair there!”

 

Emily: “I’ve told this story a thousand times but I still love it–a little kid asked me if I was a pirate. His mom got all nervous, like he did something wrong, but it was cool. I told him I was, and that I would be hitting the high seas that afternoon.”

 

Alicia: “I’ve also been asked if I’m a pirate. Mostly people just ask if I know where they can get kosher food!”

 

 

 

Pauline: “I was in McDonalds when one of the staff sidled up to me asking if I was a medium. I was thrown a bit and said, ‘No, although I do pick up on people’s vibes and feelings.’ She said ‘I knew it, just by your look.'”

Su: “How about, “Look, mommy! A Genie!” while grocery shopping.”

 

 

 

 

Kendra: “This weekend (which was my first time wearing a tichel in public), a man approached me and asked if I was an aerobics instructor. (???)”

Zehava: I got, “Does your husband make you wear that?”
Potential answer: ‘No, did your mom make you wear that?’ [disclaimer: It is maybe not a good idea to actually say this. 😛 ]

 

 

 

Alana: “A man from Africa came up to me one time and enthusiastically pulled out his wallet and showed me a photograph of his mother in a head wrap. He told me he liked mine and that it reminded him of home, and that he felt it was so proper and dignified for women to wrap. He asked why I wrap, and I said: ‘Because it feels proper and dignified!’ It was a wonderful moment.”

 

 

Eliana Misty: “My favorite, the one that made me laugh out loud, is when I was asked if I were a Yogi.”

 

Chana Rivka: “I have a karate instructor who seeks to find new ways to describe my wraps. Last time he asked if I was a gypsy and could see the future. I said, ‘I knew you were going to say that.'”

 

 

 

Maya: “‘Where are you from?’ ‘No, I mean where are you REALLY from?'”

 

 

 

Shira: “At shul, a little kid playing with my son pointed at me and asked, ‘Why does your mom wear that big stuff on her head?’ My son replies, in a matter of fact tone, ‘That’s her crown. My abba is the king and she’s the queen.’ Meanwhile, the first kid is totally lost, because he knows my husband as the rabbi!”

 

Nechama: “The best one was at work today. A 7-year-old kid was looking at the back of my head (I was wearing a volumizer) and he said: “Do you have a baby in your head?” i.e., Are you pregnant? Boy, did we have a good laugh!!!”

 

 

 

And the award for best comment goes to:

 

Andrea Grinberg: “I was recently asked, “Have you heard of this website called Wrapunzel?”

 

 

 

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Thanks for sharing, everybody!!!

Have YOU had an unexpected or humorous tichel reaction lately? Tell us about it!

Hi Everyone!

I’ve been wearing some gorgeous tichels lately, but it’s been hard to get good photos of them because I’ve been all distracted with our yummy baby.  This past motzei Shabbat we had a pidyon haben, and a friend snapped this photo of what I was wearing.  It’s a sari sash, navy shimmery, and light blue 2 in 1… loved wearing it!  It went perfectly with this dress that I got in Israel.  Check it out!

It was an incredible evening… my father is visiting from Toronto and he cooked up a storm!  We had 60 people in our apartment yet somehow everyone fit!  Many people helped out and all in all we are just so grateful 🙂

I loved this outfit… I was able to combine many shades of blue together and it just made me feel so serene and happy.  Have you ever had a simcha (happy, often formal occasion) and you were super sleep deprived and short on time, but you managed to put together an outfit and feel fabulous?  Would love to hear your experiences!

Love love love!
Andrea

Hey everybody!

Do you have a favorite photography spot in your house? I typically take tichel photos of myself in my hallway (see below). Why? Well, the natural light is fairly decent and the hallway is usually much cleaner than my bathroom or my vanity.

Trust me. There’s no comparison between that clean, white photo background and the mess currently heaped onto my dresser.

And while many people go outside to take their tichel photos, I live in an area that has spent much of the last few months at frigid temperatures. If I happen to be outside and someone snaps my picture that’s one thing, but I don’t usually voluntarily do a selfie outside.

But, on a blog that I follow, readers were challenged to take a picture of themselves that stepped out of their typical “dalet amos” (an expression referring to someone’s usual habitat) and to take a picture near a city hotspot. The exercise was meant to reinforce pride in our individual communities, to foster feelings of belonging, and to help spread awareness.

And I thought that this would be an excellent idea to bring to Wrapunzel. On our Fangroup, posters sometimes lament their feelings of isolation from being the only one (or two) individuals in a particular community to wear tichels. I don’t think I’m just speaking for myself when I say that those types of emotions can drive a wedge between ourselves and our hometowns.

So let’s bridge that personal gap between our online community and our fantastic Real Life ones. What’s amazing about your city? What iconic area are you proud to have worn a tichel to?

Personally, I wore a tichel to the pier and in the background, I give you the Chicago skyline:

Signing off from The Windy City,

Tamar Adina

One of Wrapunzel’s first TRULY viral tutorials was the infamous Zig Zag Criss Cross.

It’s still one of our most popular wraps, but it takes some time and patience, and it doesn’t have any dangling tails. I love the effect, but sometimes I’m looking for something quicker, and so I came up with an alternative!

The wrap I’m wearing below is one of the product photos from the Carousel, a super-fun scarf from our 2015 spring line. It preserves the zig-zag effect of the original Zig-Zag Criss Cross, but it’s NOT the same – in fact, it’s much easier!!! You can see another version of it in the Flowering Desert photos. We had a ton of emails asking how to do this wrap!!

You ask, we answer! Without any further ado, here’s how to do the Half Zig-Zag! Enjoy!!!

Love,

Naomi Rose

You never know who you’ll meet when wearing a tichel…

We went horseback riding for chol hamoed Pesach (the intermediate days of Passover), a time of year when lots of Jewish families like to go out and have adventures in the beautiful spring weather! This is Copper, the horse I rode – he was saved from a tough life and irresponsible owners by a rescue organization, and now he enjoys more pleasant days of toting newbies like me around. 🙂

I wore a simple single-scarf wrap (this is the purple Peek o’ Spring), and the new Wrapunzel Signature Shaper – it’s a little more moderate-sized volumizer than the one I usually wear, so it squished down easily for me to fit a riding helmet over it. No safety compromises here!!!

What fun and crazy adventures have you had lately while wrapping?

Love,

Naomi Rose

It’s the new wrap craze!!  We’re all loving this gorgeous new tie that was invented by Liezl!  I just HAD to try it and do some variations on it as well!  This is a video that shows you tons and tons of options!

SEND US YOUR PICS to wrapunzelthestore@gmail.com !!!  We’ve already received tons and want to make a post with all your photos and creative variations!  Check out what these Wrapunzel ladies have already done!

It’s here!!  We’ve spent so much time searching out and designing the perfect one with the Wrapunzel velvet headband sewn in!  Get yours HERE!

And here is the video allll about it!  The behind the scenes story, and how to wear it!

Hello beautiful Wrapunzelution ladies!

You may have noticed that there have been a lot of posts from other Wrapresentative ladies lately and none from me!  Well there is a very good reason for this… I just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy!  This is our first child and he sure is yummy and we’re spending as much time with him as possible.  Thank Gd our wonderful Wrapunzel ladies have stepped in to do blog posts and videos while I’m offline.  Naomi Rose, Tamar Adina and Rachel, you rock!

His name is Shalom Yaakov (Ted Jacob in english) and we are just grateful beyond words.

I am still around, but cherishing this precious time with our baby for a little bit.  I will be back soon!  Thank you all for your beautiful berachot, and wishes.  I wish I could find more adequate words to thank you but… just… every single message means the world.  I love you all very much.

Wishing you all the happiness and blessings in the world ❤

Love, Andrea

Need to conquer the cold or beat the heat? Tamar Adina to the rescue! She’s back – with a great set of tips for ticheling to suit the weather (even when it can’t make up its mind). Enjoy!!!

Dear Wrapunzel,

Spring has sprung the grass is ris –
I wonder where the flowers is?

-Adapted by unknown

Pesach is less than three weeks away. There. I said it. For those of you that are making Pesach, I just gave you full permission to begin the full on panic. Pesach, also known as Chag HaAviv is the first real sign (at least for me!) that warmer weather is imminent.

But… some years the warmer weather is a bit more imminent than other years. I live in a city where we’ve had years where there have been two inches of snow on the first day of Pesach. Did I mention that on that particular Pesach, the 15^th of Nissan fell mid-April? We’ve also had years where it was a “frosty” 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius) in March…and we all prayed that the air conditioners were able to keep up with the demand of having an oven on during a cooking marathon.
So, what’s a girl to do when the weather runs the gamut?

Dress for the weather, of course!

Some of my favorite ways to wrap in cold weather include:

• Wearing a thick pashmina like Popping Bubbles, Woven Vines, or The Cranberry. I combine that with a metal headband like Gold Roses (if I’m in the mood) and that’s it. During the winter, I don’t often wear my sari scarves or my 2-in-1s. I tend to wear only one really thick pashmina during the winter. On warmer cold days (yes, that’s a bit of an oxymoron, but we’ve had -33 and 25 degrees F (-36 and -4 degrees C) here; the later is downright balmy in comparison to the former) I’ll wear my Signature or a solid pashmina with a headband, the occasional silky sash, or lace. Yes, I’ve seen beautiful pictures on the fangroup where Wrapunzel ladies have managed to wrap a signature and a sari, but since I have a larger head and a ridiculous amount of hair I prefer less bulk. I VERY RARELY wrap a solid style pashmina with a second full size scarf.
• Tucking my ears in. I cover my ears during the winter and I’ll keep a pair of earmuffs in my purse for extra protection.
• Wearing a volumizer or at the very least, a cap. It adds an extra layer of warmth against the elements without adding bulk on the side of my head.

 

When the weather is warmer –

• I bring out all of my medium and sheer scarves. In the springtime and fall I use and abuse my Shimmeries, saris, 2-in-1s and NY Brights. Those scarves all tend to go on hiatus during the winter.
• I pack away my pashminas. And I’m not just referring to Popping Bubbles. I know that there are people that will happily wear the Ronit or the Signature year round…but I’m not that girl.
• When the weather is somewhere between 40-75 degrees F (4-24 degrees C), I’ll often wear 2-3 scarves on my head (and frequently with a pin or second accessory.)
• I still wear a volumizer or a cap because I like having a smooth “base” for my scarves.

 

 

 

When the weather is HOT –

• I pack away the volumzier and just wear an oomphtastic scrunchy.
• I ditch the synthetic based scarves. Fabrics made of natural fibers (cotton, linen, and even wool) help beat the heat while man-made materials can lead to a sweat drenching experience. Although 2-in-1s seem like the best option for heat, since those are made of viscose (aka rayon), the Wrapunzel Israeli tichel is actually significantly cooler.
• I don’t wrap my ears.

 

 

But, what do you do when the weather outside…and the weather inside don’t match up? Although it’s annoying, there is sometimes anywhere between a 15 and 80 degree variation between the temperature outside and the thermostat inside. Like all good Midwest girls, I learned from a young age that sometimes you just have to layer. I’ll sometimes throw a second tichel into my diaper bag or briefcase and rewrap at work or after shul before walking a mile to lunch.

Whether or not you are making Pesach, I hope that you are able to take full advantage of the early sunshine!

Tamar Adina

 

[all photos belong to Tamar Adina]

The lovely Rachel is back with another awesome tutorial!  Wow this woman really knows how to tie her knots!

In the video, she’s doing the wrap with Layers of Love, and in the photo above she’s doing it with a Wrapunzel Signature!

The wrap is similar to the “Waterfall Rescue” tutorial that Naomi Rose did but with only one scarf and a variation… who would have thought that the original “Waterfall Twist“ tie would get so much attention!  Rock it, wrap stars!