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1915. "Dog show. Mrs. Henry C. Corbin." Another entry from H&E's series showing matrons, misses and their mutts at the Washington Kennel Club dog show of April 1915. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Closely wrapped veils on ladies' hats, some transparent, some not, were part of high fashion for upper class women when going out in public from at least the early 1890s until the beginning of the 1920s. In her 1952 memoir "Remember and Be Glad," Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887-1960) wrote of her dislike for the elaborate and uncomfortable fashions of her youth, and mentioned in particular the constricting hat veils "that caught even in my short eyelashes, and made seeing difficult."
In the 1950s, when I was a little girl, my mother's "dress up" outfit included small hats with short veils. Often the veils would have beads which made them sparkle. They didn't cover the eyes, but they came from the same source as the full veil. Most women wore veils in public way back when, they just got smaller and smaller until they disappeared, along with the hats.
Veils must have been big back then.
This series of dog show photos was evidently taken for the Washington Post, appearing on April 13, 1915. The caption identifies Mrs. Corbin's Pomeranian as "Bubi Schneerisschen."
Henry Corbin was Adjutant General of the United States Army. Widowed after the death of his first wife in 1894, he married Edyth Patten in 1901. Corbin retired from the Army in 1906 and built a palatial home, "Highwood," in Chevy Chase, MD. He died in 1909.
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