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For those who have come to feel devalued, degraded, left behind, or shunted aside, being asked to hide one’s face must be the ultimate act of public cruelty.

The return of the hat, though young women couldn't agree on whether the point of a great hat was to hide one's face or to attract extra attention to it.

In his book about the experience, Lasdun described his experience in this way: it was an “agony” to go into work because he “felt the literal reality of that elemental attribute of shame, the desire to hide one’s face.”

It was a comfort to be able to hide one’s face, and besides, just between herself and the handkerchief there was a tear.

Her eyes flashed with unconquerable pride, and her square, firm chin she held very high; for now, indeed, she was filled with terror of what "folks would say" to this home-leaving, and it was a bright June afternoon, too clear for an umbrella with which to hide one's face from prying neighbors, too late in the day for a sunshade.