THE VOGUE FOR VEILS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20785, 21 April 1939, Page 3

THE VOGUE FOR VEILS

Veils have returned to favour. They are to be seen everywhere and make a romantic and useful mode, for with one length, or twist, of gaudy, frothy veiling a hat can he transformed. The new autumn hats are discreetly draped in soft tulle or chiffon, which is then brought through a hole, or slot, in the crown to serve the dual purpose of a scarf. Veils can be fine and transparent as a spider's cobweb or meshed coarsely as a Cornish fisherman's net. They can be paterned or plain, and form amusing and gay colour-links with dress accessories such as handbags, gloves, and jewellery. Some veils are spotted. Large or tiny, flat or blobby, they decorate a thin mesh or open, coarsely strung ground in every variety of matched or vividly contrasted colour. One kind of spot, golden and fluffy, resembles mimosa or chicken fluff; another, multicoloured, covers a veil in a confetti-like shower; a third variety is made up of single, large chenille blobs in fuchsia, plum, indigoblue, or glossy black. For the evening, to wear with sequined turbans, or Juliet caps, there are charming little circular veils whose transparent edges are often worked in a design of sequins or in gold ami silver thread. Revived from that far-off, slightly absurd, but romantic time when veils simply smothered the vast outlines of a monster garden-party hat is the latest use of taking two lengths of_

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contrasted coloured net such as pale pink under royal-blue or pale yellow under snuff-brown and draping them becomingly round a bat. Edwardian straw boaters lend themselves particularly well to veiltreatrnenl. One seen lately was draped with a coarse wide-mesh filet net through which was slotted velvet ribbon to tie in a bow just under the wearer's graceful knot of hair. There are many ways of tying a xoil and each style should be studied in relation to the wearer’s hat and personality. Above all, the question of height is important. Because veils arc fashionable. Ihe small woman or the woman with too full a figure, perhaps, should not overload her appearance by Ihe indiscriminate use o£ veiling. There are many hats, too. that a veil, however pretty, will simply disfigure. They should be worn severely plain. On the other hand, veils can be used nil hats to add both to their colour effect and warmth, while a well-chosen coloured veil can enhance the natural glow of any good complexion equally well as a wrongly cnosen one increase any sallow or For the I rue blonde type. all shades of purple, from vi.da to tulip noire, besides aquamarine, scarlet, and bright green, are good: for Ihe brunette with a clear pale skin, the plums, reds, crimsons, and olives jtl winter.