MODERN SILHOUETTES TO BE POPULAR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 2

MODERN SILHOUETTES TO BE POPULAR.

With present-day fashions many things have been revived, including the bright coloured embroideries, , tho draped robes, ami th-p short dance dross, bnt nothing is more likely io get a hold of modern society than the silhouette portrait, which; shico tho exhibition of a remarkable collection in South Kensington recently, is bring reverted to by a groat many fashionable women in Groat Britain. It is now the mode to liave a silhouette portrait cut in tho old approved fashic-n of the early 18th century, and those delightful pictures, cither plain or tipped with gold, arc providing a lucrative employment for a ■ number of hitherto struggling artists, men and women, who find mors money in tho cut figure than in.n hundred oil or wnlcMolour pieces. "Tho silhouettes (says a .-writer in tho "Gentlewomen") Skis come, to mean for us. the tout ensmnblo, tho contour,.the volume oi' our turn out, and wo liavo a iipiv appreciation of.thn lines of tlio figure as a composition. Curiously enough it,is only in K'cnnfc years thai the artistic conception of prpscntnhle'fcirin has dared tho slendor upright note." Hence tho silhouette has a special advantage in the portraiture of to-day. , f Long ago, tho family without either these black pictures .or a collection of daguerreotypes was a family without history, and, therefore, without interest, and it looks as if we, ourselves, after a generation of laughing nt the queer shapes of our ancestors,, will be handing down blacks of ourselves, to raise the laujjli 'against ourselves in turn, when exhibited somewhere in the region of 2201.. After all, they ought to be popular, for to our faults they arc "very kind," and the art of leaving out has never bewi tho least of 'successful picturcmakiiig. True, th<s fat woman and the hero of "full habit" will still loom over large upon the picture, but many a faeiaf blemish will be capable of being discreetly hidden, and many a good point revealed. So far we lack a silhouette artist- in tho. colonics, that , is, doing it professionally, and there is every possibility of the first young man or woman to nut out a sign making a very good thing out of it. Olip of the ablest workers in Great Britain, C. Hamhi|>, finds his time fully occupied, and many another young straggler is blessing the solar system of fashion, w'hich has brought tho quaint conceit back again into our visible horizon. ' Miss Roberts, tho inventor of the'lmperial system of dressmaking, is now in Gisborne, giving a series of free lectures ajid demonstrations of her method. : * I i Mrs. J. K. Kirk sml family, of Gin-1 I home, who hn.vc.bcen -motoring through [ Central Otago, are now staying at i Oamaru. The f-calp was pirorl yon to grow hair, make it to'its work. MISS'MILSOM, Hair Physician, will diagnose your ca?e (free of charge), and prescribe the necessary preparations, and teach you how to uso them; whether your hair be too dry, too greasy, srey, thin, dandruff, irritation, etc. Th*re is not a preparation existent in itself that will make hair prow, but long experience, study in science of hair, and successful treatment, with the pembiu-ation of proper preparations, Las solved the secret. All treatments, sham- , ! pooiss, face massage, clipping, nianicuring, hiurdressing taught. Hair-work of every description. Natural Hair, Parisian Rings (used instead of hot twls.) Advice' gratis by mail. Miss Milsom, King's Chambers, Willis Street, Wellington. I Telephone 81-I.'