How to Choose a Shawl or Wrap
This guide explains how to sort a shawl or wrap choice by setting and occasion, and what to include in an inquiry. It is a guide only: it states no claim about any item.
Shawls and wraps share searches, not lists
Shawls and wraps overlap in buyer searches, and buyers often use the two names for the same browsing session. In an inquiry, the two names should stay separate: shawls in one group, wraps in another, with the setting and the occasion named for each group. A combined list with no grouping makes the questions harder to place, because a question that belongs to a wrap can sit beside a shawl item by mistake.
The same applies to the wrap shawl groupings on this site. Cashmere wrap shawls, silk shawl wraps and wool shawl wraps each have a family page, and each page gives the same inquiry shape: groups first, requirements beside the items they belong to.
Sort by setting and occasion first
A shawl or wrap choice starts with the setting and the occasion, not with the family name. Evening occasions, daytime outings, outdoor settings and travel days each point to a different grouping of the list, and the questions beside each item follow the grouping. Name the setting and the occasion for each group, so the list reads as groups rather than as a single undifferentiated set.
When the choice between a shawl and a wrap is still open, name the settings and occasions first and leave the grouping question open beside the group it belongs to. The grouping question belongs in the inquiry, listed beside the items it belongs to.
Colour, shape and size requirements
Colour, shape and size words appear in buyer searches for shawls and wraps, and buyers often arrive with a colour, a shape or a size in mind. This site publishes no colour, shape or size claim for any item. Name the requirements in the inquiry, beside the items they belong to, and ask what applies to each item.
Putting the inquiry together
A finished inquiry carries the item list, the quantities beside each item, the destination market for the list as a whole, and anything to settle in writing beside the items it belongs to. Add the setting and the occasion for each group, and the colour, shape and size requirements beside the items they belong to.
- The setting and the occasion for each group of items
- Whether each item belongs in the shawl group or the wrap group
- Colour, shape and size requirements, beside the items they belong to
- Quantities beside each item, and the destination market for the list
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Send an inquiry
Send your item list and quantities for a quote. Include setting, occasion, colour, shape and size requirements beside the items they belong to.