That veil, known to its hot occupants as "a meat-safe," was very necessary when twenty-four sturdy hairpins and a kind of loofah-sausage were necessary to the erection of the hair, in its loops and whorls; and when a heavy hat, with a load of heavy trimming (not exactly fish, flesh, fowl. and good red herring, but velvet flowers and -rosettes, garlands of leaves, clumps of fruit, and clusters of feathers united in nodes of gathered silk), had to be fastened to this hair with steel spears. It was th: Office of the veil to look like a gossamer, yet hold straight, with iron grip, this heavier-than-steel skyscraper from the wanton fancy of a gust that could make the dullest duchess look dissipated, by altering its angle in so little as a hair's breadth.
It was so much a necessity of the period that is to characterize the fashions of tomorrow, that more than one firm, now making laces and openworks, then existed entirely on hat-veilings. And bonnet-veilings. It is going to be great fun when daughters of women who gingerly moved from bonnet to toque to hat, see their daughters gingerly move from hat to toque, while their -younr hussies of granddaughters start in on bonnets.
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