Spratters and Jayne is a Brooklyn-based knitwear company. The company uses only Peruvian highland wool sourced from the Andean mountains to create its signature chunky, wearable knits. The line is sold in high-end boutiques around the world, including at Opening Ceremony. Given the Midwest’s extremely harsh winters, every fashionable Chicago woman owns an assortment of cold weather accessories.

Yesterday I took the Spratters and Jayne black Infinity scarf out for a test drive with my friend Benjamin. It was cold and rainy outside, hence the chucks. My neck remained incredibly warm in spite of the blistering wind. I wore it both over my head and around my neck.

The scarf is quite long and reaches down to my ankle when worn without looping it. As you can see in the photos below I wrapped the scarf twice to create a looser feel, and three times to achieve the perfect cold weather insulator. The scarf also weighs over a pound – both an indicator of its quality and of its warmth. This scarf is the perfect layering piece for those bitterly cold days when the wind blows ice daggers off Lake Michigan.

[FCC Disclosure: scarf provided by Spratters and Jayne. Photographs by Benjamin Bradshaw.]