NEW VEILINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7028, 17 January 1910, Page 7

NEW VEILINGS

Nobody can explain why some novelties "catch on" in fashion. There is nothing to recommend the new fashion in veilings, yet every smart woman seems to have found it in her mind to order them. They are known as "Chantilly veilings/' and their peculiarity is their thickness of design,> which comes as a novelty after years of wearing very clear light veilings. A spider's web seems to have been chosen, as the leading idea in design; the web is woven with open intervals, but the design is so closely repeated that it is ■ impossible to get the eyes clear of the pattern. The same statement is true of, most of the other designs in this heavy veiling—the vision must be constantly both-' ered by such heavy squares, diamonds, or other" geometrical, shapes set before the eyes. If these patterned- veils are| not very carefully put on, too, they produce an absolutely ■ ludicrous effect: the face look 9 awry, the nose has a spotted tip, or the eyes take on a squint. Some of the patterns are so * close that they act almost as a mask. Floral designs are supplied that are .particularly heavy, but these are less worn than the stiff line patterns.