Is there any difference between scarf and shawl?
What we wear in the western countries for winter is a scarf and the scarf kinda thing used by the people of India, Pakistan etc is know as a shawl. There is no much difference the only difference between scarf and shawl is the size, and most of the time differ only width.Scarf - Size of scarf normally varies from 10cm -40cm in width and 120cm - 200 cm in length. Among scarves also they differ a lot in size. Specially summer and winter scarves.Shawl - Shawls mostly come 80-110 cm wide to 180 cm - 210 cm long.(As you can see there is not great difference between size of stole and shawl. Traditionally shawl was popular word in India, Pakistan and Nepal. But now it has been widely adopted in west also. And in past shawl was used for winter only and were made from only pure wool)