MANTILLA AND SHINGLE.
A Spanish correspondent writes to a London journal lamenting the disappearance of the mantilla and beautifully carved comb.
" It is sad to think," she says, " that few of these graceful head-dresses are to be seen nowadays. In southern Spain very few of the women wear hats and in the streets and in church the ordinary wear is a lace scarf or veil thrown over the head.
Owing, however, to the fact that many of the women of modern Spain have adopted the shingle they can no longer wear the carved high comb as of old "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20768, 10 January 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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