The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20
Veil PhdntdSieS
For Spring and
Summer Wear
The Summer Girl of 1904 Will Resemble the
Yelled Woman of the East-Tuxedo Mesh
Wells the Correct Thing in Dotted Wells.
BY HARRIET HAWLEY.

The wheel of fashion has taken a
turn in the direction of the Orient.
The summer girl of 1904 can claim
kniship with yelled women of the
East, for, like the Salomes of Biblical
days, her veil floats nearly to,her feet,
! and is as many colored as the shadings
of a rainbow.
The American girl first developed a
penchant for wells several seasons ago.
French promenaders of the Paris
boulevards spoke scoffingly of the
American and her inevitable veil. But
from scoffing they learned to initiate.
The French magazines de la mode
have this last winter been full of de-
scriptions of wells worn by this or
that beauty and unstinted in praise of
their grace and charm.
1t is distinct a triumph for American
taste in fashion.
1t is strange that the astute French
women have not been quicker to rec
ognize the possibilities of the veil.
Have they not read the stanzas of the
Eastern poets eulogizing the pearls OF
the harem? Eyes never flash so be-
witching or lips burn with so vivid
a scarlet as behind the shimmering
folds which half reveal and half con-
ceal.
The American girl must be better
read. Or. perhaps, it but another
display of her vaunted powers of intu-
ition.
Whatever may be the cause, her
pechant for wells has been growing
for the past three seasons, till now 1t
promises to reach it's zenith.
The Auto Veil.
The woman who would go automo-
billing finds her veil as much a neces-
sity as an ornament. In fact, some OF
the automobile wells are anything but
ornamental. But their fine mesh keeps
out the flying particles of grit and dust
which are ruinous to the complexion,
while the isinglaSs eye pieces allow
clearnesS of vision.
There are various methods for fit
ting the automobile veil to the hat.
Small steel hoops can be had to mt
snugly around the crown. But these
are a trifle unwieldly, SO some ingenl-
Gus milliner happened upon the idea
of using a thin flexible wire in their
place. The woman who is not so
particular, or the one who has hat
with an odd Snapped brim, finds a silk
cord sufficiently suited to her purpose.
Whatever the means of fitting the
wells to the hat brim, the general
method is the same. Enough is al
lowed from the center of the length
of a three or four yard veil to abund-
antly encircle the edge of the br1m.
This is fitted with a casing, and the
hoop, wire or cord is run through 1t.
The two ends thus left are crossed
over in the back and brought around
to tie in a bow under the chin. The
head of the automobilist is thus per-
fectly veil enclosed.
Like Women of the East.
But the automobile wells have found
favor with women who, either from
fear or from lack of opportunity,
never so much as set foot in one of
the horSeless vehicles. 1t would in
dicate that milady is becoming more
retiring in her disposition. ut indi-
Gates the growth CT aristocracy in this
country" one philosophical milliner
declared. MANY Of my patrons will
protected from the gaze OF the
canaille."
This opinion may seem a trifie ex-
treme. Yet the heavy chiffon wells
certainly afford a world of protection
to their wearers. A bit of rose color
ed yelling will give an artificial glow
to the cheek of the girl who has been
dancing to the small hours of the
morning; while the woman who sighs
over a complexion the color of a
peony finds that a discreet black or
gray veil has a wonderous subduing
effect.
Complexion Protectors.
The dotted mesh wells cannot be
vaunted as complexion protectors. The
oculists even say their worst about
them. But these complaints have little
weight with the fashionable world.
Dotted mesh is the fashion, and milady
wears ii on all occasions. Though dot
ted wells are no invention of this sea-
son, the patterns decidedly are. The
size of the chenille dot varies from a
point as large as a French knot to d
bunch of silken fuZz a half inch or
more in diameter. These latter are
naturally incorporated in the veil bor-
ders only.
The medium sized dots are used in a