Narrated Safiya bint Shaiba:
`Aisha used to say: "When (the Verse): "They should draw their veils over their necks and bosoms,"
was revealed, (the ladies) cut their waist sheets at the edges and covered their heads and faces with those cut pieces of cloth."
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 282
Arabic reference: Book 65, Hadith 4759