IT’S an old-fashioned piece of Aussie garb that’s proving as popular as ever in the modern era.
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With summer fast approaching and after last week’s much-needed rain, those pesky flies are back with a vengeance.
Anyone who was out and about last weekend will have been busy swatting those blowies, but the team at Frank Smith Work Clothing have the answer.
They’ve decided to stock a traditional fly veil and they are walking out the door because of the demand.
Cathy Yeoman from Frank Smith said the hot weather and rain were the perfect recipe for flies, which are back in droves.
“The fly veil’s one of those essential summer items around Bathurst,” she said. “Really, anyone and everyone is going for them, from people who live to get out in the garden, those who like going for walks, farmers.
“If you are an outside person, it’s for you. And at $10 a pop it’s a cheap way to keep your sanity. Swatting the flies away soon gets on your nerves.”
Mrs Yeoman said they source the fly veils from a wholesaler in Victoria.
“We’ve stocked them every year for as long as I can remember, certainly long before Dad [Frank] retired about 15 years ago,” she said. “They are one of those items that if we don’t stock them, people start asking us to make sure we get them in.
“Along with the fly veils, our Aussie socks are also a steady seller all year round, as are the products like slippers and ugg boots from the Westhaven sheltered workshop in Dubbo. And another Aussie icon we have are the canvas water bags from Goulburn that you hang on the front of the truck.”
Mrs Yeoman noted with interest a photograph in Monday’s Western Advocate of Ben and Martha Gelin at the Inland Sea of Sound Festival at the Bathurst Goldfields.
“They were sitting there in their fly veils looking quite pleased with themselves,” she said.