Clean scarves and shawls are more exotic than "face masks". That's what they wear in places where there are sandstorms.

If you walk around wearing those cheap, dispensable "face masks", you will only manage to look like a pretentious Chinese tourist who cannot stand the smell of Philippine streets.

Or a manikurista taking a break from an atchay beauty parlor.

Or an underpaid food server subcontracted by a stingy caterer.

Or a hardware-store paint mixer.

Or a lab extra in a B-grade Godzilla movie.