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The Swedish kid glove is now much more in vogue, and the silk glove is made with such neatness and with such a number of buttons that it is equally stylish, and much cooler and more agreeable. That most iconic item of mourning dressthe widows veilremained a classic representation of deep mourning for decades, even if it was, as noted in Godeys , known to cause certain injury if kept too long over the face due to the poisonous chemicals used to make and set the dyes that created the deep matte black color considered most desirable