A WIRED VEIL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 30, 26 July 1890, Page 15

A WIRED VEIL.

A veil is a necessity to the woman who cares for appearance. In the first place, it saves washing the face, and in the next place it keeps the dust and wind from the hair. Miss Hallowell, who spends six months of every year collecting art works from American and European studios, is never without a veil. ‘ If I didn’t wear one,’ she says, • I should waste all my time washing my face and combing my hair. As my time is very precious I put my hat and veil on when I get up in the morning, and keep them on until night.’ There arc veils and veils, of tulle, cr6pe, plain and dotted net, gauze, baize, knitted silk, mull and invisible tissue which oculists contend have been the ruination of American eyes, and are still productive of spectacled children. Be this

as it may, the veil is firmly fixed ami the consumption among women who go nlsmt a great deal averages fifty iier year. The Hading veil was shortlived, for the reason' that phenomenal beauty or pronounced |mint was necessary to peer through its gloom. The idea, however, suggested the wire veil, the novelty of the stock, which is nothing more than a semicircle of d’esprit gathered on a tine wire by means of which it can be adjusted to any hat crown or bonnet frame. No pins are needed. All one has to do is to pinch the wire and it stays where it is placed.