Queston Re: Number 2's Scarf

[evilawyer]

Hello. I quite like the 1960's TV show "The Prisoner", and wanted to make a knitted scarf based on the scarf worn by Leo McKern's Number 2 for my partner. I wasn't able to find any actual patterns for the scarf on line (apparently it's a school scarf), but I did look at stills from the show that featured various Number 2s and their scarves. Everybody's but McKern's seems easy enough to recreate in some fashion, but the striping on McKern's looks different than rest, and I can't quite figure out why from the pictures. Does anyone out there possible have/know where I can find a pattern or a diagram of McKerns' scarf? Thanks.

Comments

[astro_noms]

I made something similar for a fictional university scarf, if you want to see what I did - St. Simon's Pride. It looks to me like Wyngarde's is one white & one yellow stripe and black stripes in between, and where it looks like there might be more than one white/yellow stripe is either the scarf wrapped around twice, or the shirt peeking through (see this picture for example, the part that's on his should lies too flat to be more than one layer.

[dhae_knight_1]

Wow - that's gorgeous! <3

Now I feel bummed we don't have scarves like that for the universities in Denmark... :-(

[astro_noms]

You could start a trend! Take the school colors and make some scarves/hats/whatever! :D

[dhae_knight_1]

Don't have school colors, either. :-( We're so boring! :-D

[astro_noms]

LOL. Take them from you university website? Or a sports team if you have one? The colors from graduation robes? Banners? Or just make them up! You could have some fun with it. :)

[evilawyer]

The more I look at different pics, the more I'm thinking that McKern and Wygarde are wearing the wearing the same scarf, but McKern is wearing two that have been overlapped at the ends to make for a longer scarf. That's why his scarf, in some photos anyway, looks like Wyngarde's on the end you can see on his chest and like something with more white stripes than one up around his neck.

Thanks for that big Wyngarde pic --- much easier to see (I agree; it's one layer. I don't want to do a knit version of it in the round to achieve the vertical stripes; lengthwise is the way I'm going to do it).