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Birdcage veils — from time to time called net or face veils — have lately become more popular, partially due to movie and celebrity brides wearing them. Most recently, in 2007, Katherine Heigl wore one in her real-life wedding and Jessica Alba’s reputation wore a birdcage veil in the movie Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer. While it’s possible to buy birdcage veils, brides on a budget may prefer to make their own. This veil is very short — normally just long sufficient to frame the face but may also be eye-length — and specifically worn alone, without further and added tiers or a discerned blusher. You may choose to attach a established veil in the back, to a bun or mass of curls. The birdcage is made of coarse-weave French or Russian-style netting rather than typical fine-mesh veil fabrics. Historically, the veil was attached to a hat. The modern bride, however, often times alternatively chooses to wear her birdcage veil without a hat. Today, most brides attach this short, circular veil directly to their hair with a pin or comb, so that it hangs down around the head. The front serves as a blusher over her face. Making a Birdcage Veil Because of the short length and because netting is stiffer than tulle, creating the effect you want when making a birdcage veil may be trickier than when making a regular veil. For this reason, buy extra netting and plan to make one or two trial runs before the veil is perfect. Also note that the width of the netting will be the length of your veil (from the point where you attach it to your head to the where the veil falls in front of your face). Materials You Will Need: - Up to three yards of Russian or French netting. Step 1: Cut 36″ of 9″ French / Russian netting You may make a comparatively full birdcage veil, with a lot of gathers, from a yard of netting. These instructions are for making a comparatively full, accumulated veil similar to Jessica Alba’s in Rise of the Silver Surfer. Cut the netting shorter for a veil that lays closer to your head, with less gathers. If in doubt, cut the piece long at first. Then shorten it if you find that the veil is too full. The short, cut ends will be the sides of your veil and the long, finished edges will be the front and back. These instructions explain how to gather the sides and attach them to clips as well as gather the back more loosely than the sides. Step 2. Sew on two clips, one at each end of the long (finished) edge of veiling. The clips will go at the front corners of the veil, with the teeth facing the finished edge. The outside, short side of each clip must be parallel to a raw, cut edge. Position them so that, when worn, the clips’ metal bars will face outward, but stay under the veiling. The clips will have to curve versus your head when closed. Step 3. Gather the cut sides of the veil and sew them to the clips. Using a slipknot, attach thread at the corner of a cut edge opposite a clip. Weave the thread in and out of the diamond patterns along the cut edge amid the attached end and the clip then thread it through the hole in the clip. Pull the thread tight so the entire cut edge is collected versus the clip. Secure to the undersurface of the clip (the non-bar side, which will be versus your head) so the thread will be concealed when you are wearing the veil. You may want to tidy up by clipping off the frayed pieces of netting. One entire side must now be accumulated and sewn to a clip. Repeat on the second side, gathering and sewing the raw edge versus the clip. Step 4. Make the back gathers. Attach doubled or heavy button thread to the inside edge of a clip. Weave the thread in and out among the diamonds or holes in the netting. Do not secure the thread to the second clip yet. The length of the thread determines how full the gathers and how closely the veil hugs your head. You will want to adjust the length of the thread so the veil looks perfective on you. Step 5. Experiment with dissimilar veil widths. Looking in a mirror, adjust the thread length amidst clips. When you are happy with your veil’s width and fullness of the gathers, secure the thread by looping it through the inside holes of the second clip and tying it off. With 8″ – 9″ netting, you will need to attach the veil near the top of your head for it to hit just beneath the nose. Attach it further back for a shorter look. Leave time to exercise attaching the veil precisely as you want it, and you will look like a star on your wedding day!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Katy is hired by the company, not because she knows anything about pharmaceuticals, but because she is a babe. However, Katy is not really comfortable in a corporate world where making money is the bottom line and her boss prefers that she wear panty hose is she is gong to wear a skirt. On the other hand, when they hired her they gave Katy a company car and that is nothing to sneeze at. Then Katy meets Zach Danner (Lucian McAfee), who is the antithesis of the world in which she lives. Zach’s goal is build his own house and this ideal makes up for the fact he does not look like your typical leading man in a movie. Still, Katy is committed to their future together and circles the date on the calendar when she will quit her job so they can go built their home in the woods. At that point “Side Effects” takes an interesting satirical turn because Katy decides that instead of following the company’s scripts for selling durgs she is going to tell doctors the truth (to wit, their product is not any better than comparable products by their competitors, just more expensive). I thought Slatery-Moschkau was going to take more advantage of this approach, like they did in the Dudley Moore movie “Crazy People” did with its hysterical shtick of telling the truth in commercial advertising, but it becomes a minor yet ironic joke as her unorthodox approach makes Katy successful and gets her on the management track. That means a nicer company car and as her unscrupulous company gears up for the release of the new anti-depressant that they want to turn into a billion dollar blockbuster, Katy finds herself being led into temptation and putting her future with Zach in doubt. Although “Side Effects” is clearly a work of passion and personal commitment for Slatery-Moschkau, she clearly wears too many hats in making this film. After all, this is her first film and her objectives would be better served by a writer and a director with more experience. What she does have going for her is that she has gotten Katherine Heigl to play the lead role and even persuaded her to do a couple of semi-nude scenes (the term now being defined as seeing the side of the breasts but drawing the line at coming close to seeing a nipple). Heigl has the babe part down and her winsome personality makes up for a lot of the flaws of this film. However, I fully admit that in the end I round up on this film simply because while I would hope that the idea pharmaceutical companies are interested first and foremost with making profits is not news to anybody, it never hurts to be reminded of the fact and to take a look behind the curtain. Slatery-Moschkau does a filmmaker commentary that offers an inside look at the making of the film, but also a medical commentary where she explores the medical issues brought up in the film, based on her decade working for the pharmaceutical industry. So you can regulate how outraged you want to be by what these companies are doing as you go through the DVD’s special features. Slatery-Moschkau followed up this film with a documentary this year, “Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety,” which is obviously compatible with the position of this 2005 film. Too bad the film does not offer any solutions to the problems it details beyond the basic belief that drug companies should not be doing what they are doing. 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. ‘Side Effects’ is eye-opening without being the least bit didactic as it follows new-grad Karly Hert’s career trajectory as a pharmacutical rep. She masters the tactics her employers encourage her to use to peddle her wares to doctors, enjoying increasing financial success even as she questions the ethical implications of her work. With a feel-good ending that I won’t spoil, ‘Side Effects’ succeeds as both a post-college coming-of-age story and an investigation of the sales tactics of the pharmaceutical industry. Katherine Heigl is fantastic as the wide-eyed and increasingly jaded Karly, and don’t miss Dorian DeMichele as Karly’s unscrupulous boss. A must see. 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Katherine Heigl takes on a much meatier role than her current model/doctor-in-training in prime time. Dorian DeMichele, who plays the ruthless yet seductive Jacqueline, is incredible. I didn’t know if I wanted to boo her or woo her! It was a terrific and important movie for everyone to see, I cannot believe it was made so fast and with such a small budget. Katherine Heigl was fantastic and I loved the chemistry she shared with Lucian McAfee. Not only was the story fantastic it was scary to realize how true this movie is. Congratulations to Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau on a great movie, one I hope everyone will see across the country. |
A satirical but not quite scathing indictment of the pharmaceutical industry
A ‘fun’ expose of the sales tactics of the pharmaceutical industry