The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05
Wells NEVER BETTER.
A Department OF Dress Where Women
Make a Choice with Difficulty.

Make a Choice with Difficulty.
Wells have improved greatly of late.
not only in originality OF design and tinting
but also in the peculiar pliableness that
makes them suitable for their purpose.
As a veilmaker said lately, If some Of the
checks and quaint figurings in black and
white, gray and black, gray and brown
now popular for vei!ingshad been attempted
with the old quality Of texture. the effect
would have been the reverse OF beautiful.
| In fact no woman would have bought such
patterns. As it is, through the general
Improvement Of weave and the inlaying
all manner of novel designs are practicable
| The standard patterns Of wells are brought
ont for these who use q veil for formal
purpose, for keeping the hair In trim and
| for a finish to the street costume rather
than for becomingness. These are the
matrons and the firm sisterhood who wear
small bonnets or toques and would as soon
think of going without a veil as accom-
paniment as without gloves or collar.
The novelties in wells and those OF I'M
common tint and quality are for the darinEy
pretty or the very smart and fashionable
girls who like to get themselves up ar
tisticaly to whom veil is an indis-
peusable part of the picture effect OF hat,
hair and costume all in conformity.
Quantities of wells are now sold for nero
trimming purposes, for the floating
drapery on ready-to-wear hats and for
ruchings about the brim. A great con-
tingent goes TO protect compilations from
wind and sun.
A veil of blush tint so filmy and elusive
that it cannot be told three feet of and
designed to be worn under the obvious
veil is the most efficient beauty help that
the yeilmaker has devised for the smart
girl. Wells have 30 markedly improved in
texture that three relays Of the new style
yelling, worn one above the other as setoff
to a girls looks, do not hamper her vision
or breathing as ono thickness OF the old
yelling hampered the old-fGshioned belle.
Perhaps the most becoming wells extant
are those used by the exclusive milliners
when irving hats on customers, These
wells are of every texture, shade and design,
to suit the various compilations. When an
almost persuaded customer baiks about
prco or deliberatCs about some eccen-
tricity of trimming. the becoming veil
placed about the hat to tone and modify
effects decision in the milliner's favor,
The woman who makes a business of
dressing and of all that pertains thereto
trusts to no haphazard way Of getting a
veil. She will try dozen different meshes
before the mirror in order to decide on the
most becoming And even at that the veil
experts say that hundreds of the wells
bought are never Worn by the original
purchasers, because they are found un-
suitable or unbecoming when the buyers
get them home and try them in a familiar
light.
Bnrgains and special sales in wells are
ignored by enlightened shoppers. Cheap
wells, of every pretty design, are generally
so harsh that they cannot be arranged with
any grace or comfort until they are all worE
and hmsy, ready TO 60 into string OF split
Whenever creased.
Only the remnants of fine veilings sorle-
times put on special sale are worth bother
ing with And even then the customer has
no time to select as to pattern. Many
women who are veil devotees buy all the
wells they wear from one dealer. Others
habitually get veil of certain mesh that
has proved satisfactory.
The fine quality veil az made ~oy- has
the resisting, elastic property that .dmits
OF it's being tucked into a pocket all in
crumpls or stuffed into small chate!aiDe,
evon on damp day, and yet performing
seemly service when pulled out and put
on properly. A cheap veil would be I'm
wearable after such treatment Even a
slight wettins robs it of all beauty and
eluSveness.
A veil properly put on is sometimes
worn as defence, again as a challenge
again to stimulate the interest that comes
from batfled curiosity, A woman of strik-
ing figure who has a full face and good
color perhaps never appears to such adj
vantage as with plain dark chiffon veil
drawn about her face,
From her style and figure the face is
imagined more beautiful than II is. Be-
sides, that plain dark veil seems warrant
of reserve, OF the womanly desire net to be
stared at. AZ well a. deicacy of ccm-
plexion that must be protected even at
risk Of appearances.
The woman of thin. worn visaEe can he
made to look positively captivating by the
veil of mellow cream tint so soft and plant
the complexion. The dark-eved girl with
q fine, clear skin looks charming in almost
anv sort Of veil,
In fact, the type of woman whose looks
cannot be hsI ped out by judicious yelling
must be harsh and unlovely so the eX-
trsme The accomplished woman adjusts
her veil in such fashion that the orr ameptal
objects in the design serve her just az the
black patches or beauty spots serve
court beauty, TO enhance fairness and
emphasize some specially pretty point of
contour. The smart girl practises adapt
Ing the special veil to the special hat, so
that she can put il on or remove it in pub
lie without struggle or awkwardness.