Veils still binding?

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No that is why there is a picture of it. They didn’t normally have camera’s at church back then. Both my grandmother and my great grandmother were veiled. The picture is taken after Mass out on the steps. Other but not all women are veiled. Some have hats.
My grandmother crocheted lace and made her and her children veils. I wish I had her skill. She was also Irish so it was not a hispanic thing as some people insist
1.) Why don’t you upload the photo and show us? I, for one, would like to see it.
2.) The lace crocheted by the Irish, then re-embroidered, is again different than the lace made in France, in Spain, or in other parts of Europe.
3.) Are you sure they are not Galway shawls? Galway shawls used for “good” or “Sunday” can be, but are not always, similar to heavy lace veils.

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Once again- if a woman chooses to cover her head, however she chooses to cover her head, when she is in church, at Mass, before the Blessed Sacrament, praying, or for that matter all the time- that is between God and the woman.

It is when other people try to staple a mantilla on my head, when it is not required, that I get upset.
No need to yell. I heard you.
 
We have these also. In our case we have hats, veils, snoods or whatever goes with what we are wearing and still covers our heads.😃 No crowns though that would require “formal” royal wear:eek: .
See if I had to cover I’d find it difficult. I definitely look terrible in pretty much any type of hat, ditto for lacy-type mantillas, but I couldn’t wear a ‘babushka’ headscarf either.

The material of those ‘rebozos’ is probably what I’d go for, but smaller - to just cover the head and the tops of the arms and shoulders, not to have swathes of material round the whole chest.
 
See if I had to cover I’d find it difficult. I definitely look terrible in pretty much any type of hat, ditto for lacy-type mantillas, but I couldn’t wear a ‘babushka’ headscarf either.

The material of those ‘rebozos’ is probably what I’d go for, but smaller - to just cover the head and the tops of the arms and shoulders, not to have swathes of material round the whole chest.
Must say this LOL. But your head wear that you seem to be using when swimming the Tiber would work for Mass. 👍
 
A rebozo is Mexican, Central American, even South American. It has a native influence. There are everyday rebozoes, and Sunday or “dress up” rebozoes. Some rebozoes are made of fine silk and other nicer materials.

A mantilla is Spanish, Castillian and Andulasian actually. It started in nobility, and was worn (and is today during the Easter Week festivities) with a comb to keep it in place. The lace is very heavy, and can extend from the shoulders to the floor and any point in between.

A Galway shawl can be, but is not necessarily, crocheted. It can also be woven or bobbined. The bobbined or crocheted shawls can be re-embroidered. It is is more the way it is made and what it has than what material. It can be worn with or without a hat (or as the old folk song notes, “a bonnet, with ribbons on it, and around her shoulders, was a Galway shawl”). I will haul out the books out of storage, even though it will take me a good deal of time, to give chapter and verse on this for authority’s sake. In the meantime, remember the movie The Quiet Man, and Mary Kate Dannaher placing her shawl over her head when she went to Mass of a morning? On Sunday, she wore a “bonnet”. She “put up her bonnet” as a favor at the horse race.

So, an woman of Irish extraction would not be wearing a “veil” prior to the late 1950s the United States. She would be wearing a “shawl”. By the 1950s, a lady of Irish extraction wore a hat, scarf, or whatever, her mother also; her daughter wore her school beanie, a chapel cap (not the same as a mantilla), or a scarf tied to look sporty; and her grandmother or great-grandmother wore the shawl to Mass.
 
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