The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18

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INU story told OF a famous London
NJ beauty, who, coming back to
town in August found herself In
j. y a sad predicament. Calling upon
the beautiful Lady Brooke, now the
Countess of Warwick. she threw herself
upon the shoulder of Lady Brooke and
burst into tears. Lady Brooke, much
alarmed, asked the cause of her distress.
MY dear friend she sobbed, pitifully
Il am disfigured. My face is covered with
blotches and sun spots. l shall die of
modification If l am compelled to exhibit
my complexion to the gaze OF the public.
BE comforted. my DEAR said her lady
ship. reassuringly. You can disguise your
complexion. Go at once TO your milliner
and order her to make for you a dozen
handsome wells. Direct her to distribute
large figures throughout the wells, and
when you go out TO drive wear figured
veil over your face When you go to walk
Grape a figured veil from your hat brim;
Meyer, appear without one OF theSe dotted
wells, and soon you Will nave all LONDON
wearing dots and figures.
The beauty took her friends advice and
by September the fashion writer's were
telling of the strange fad" which had
arisen in Engfands exclusive set, for the
wearing of wells with large dtsfguring
Whether it be for the. Disgusting of her
ruined complexion or for oddity's sake
the autumn woman has taken to wearing
the figured veil, and Ii is really surprising
to note in how many different styles so
simple thing as a veil can be made
Fancy very thin veil of the latest gauze
materials dotted with small animals which
look not unlike large bugs. They are sup
posed to be turtles, but they are sad mis-
representations of the hard-shelled deli
cacy.
one turtle hat and veil were so thor
oughly turtleized that the animals were
appliqued upon the crown of very large
pudding-bag hat, and the veil was freely
spotted with them.
This IS odd though
able as the endless chain veil, which con-
sists of circles, one outside of the other,
drawn round and round in never ending
chain of silk.
The endless chain veil is quite easy to
make. With a yard of yelling material
and a spool of coarse black silk any wo-
man can make an endless chain veil for
herself. The yelling should be stretched
very tightly before the work is begun.
are worked. The thread is carried round
and round until a figure about the size of
silver dollar is completed, The thread
is then cut without being fastened; and
another chain is begun, and so on until
the whole veil is figured.
But that Is not as strange as the rose
veil, which is, upon anything but, an ex-
tremely pretty face. actually disfiguring.
You can buy the rose wells, but they are
very expensive; and even to make one for
yourself costs a considerable amount, yet
for those who like oddly it repays ali.
One of the most noticeable of these was
made upon coarse net. Immense black
lace roses out of Nantilly lace were ap-
pliqued upon coarse black net. The effect
was most startling. but the girl who wore
IT was natural beauty; and so the veil
was pronounced pretty in spite of its ten
dency of disagreement.
To make this veil still more noticeable
the young woman wore a straw hat turned
up all around in turban fashion Directly
in the front there were two big roses, one
standing above the other: and above the
rose stood q branch of green with rose
tipping the branch.
1t is related that the London beauty who
consulted Lady Brooke in her complexion
dilemma was advised 10 wear the veil I'M
til her complexion had healed. Meanwhile
she used vigorous course of lemon and
sweet milk. Sweet milk heavily sailed is
excellent for ruined summer complexion,