I find reading fashion advice manuals entertaining, while also a way to do research for this blog. Those from the the early twentieth century sometimes advise older women to consider veils as a way to disguise their wrinkles. Perhaps this is not what the authors had in mind, since to my eye Mrs. A. E. Fish has made herself look ill in addition to old.
The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a wonderful repository of news and society photos from the first decades of the twentieth century. It commemorates Mrs. A. E. Fish’s charitable contribution to a school for disabled children.
