THE VEIL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 2 January 1912, Page 9

THE VEIL.

A recent visitor to Australia, recounting his racy experiences in the page's of a London contemporary, says that the. (lowing veil is the only quite distinctive fashion he met with in Australia. This graceful and useful appendage, protecting as it does the .neck and shoulders, .that stand in much'need of protection!.is unknown anywhere else in the world. 'You moot _ it" first,, he'says; in Perth'. . 'The idea is more pronounced in Adelaide.. In Melbourne it is 'well emphasised, but it reaches its highest in Sydney:'". This was written many months ago, but could the same traveller go. into am- of. tho..best Sydney cafes at afternoon "tea. time .jjist. now he would'find his statement :miitfti more than confirmed.. The display' of ninon, chiffon, and aeroplane, veils, thrown hack over low, broad.hats and falling in graceful folds, often as far as the hem of the skirts, makes for. a' display of colour that is nothing, short.of marvellous. Tho. fact is gradually'.beihg. recognised that all.shades of red are most restful whore veilings are concerned, and among hundreds, of. blue, mole-coloured, and green veils ,arb',jiiost wonderful. ones in flame colour, vermillion, rose, and every degree of scare't: . Accentuating all this colour are black .veils, and the sight of a big crowd of women, c-ach one. of whom represents a not;; in a remarkable scheme,, is something one is very unlikelv to forget. .There.is undeniable'charm about diaphanous material at -all ■ time's, but s:-eiiig it in these.quantities,' supplementing almost invariably a white lingerie frock, you.feet our one "distinctive Australian-fashion" is .something, to be proud of. ,