Lives by Being Photographed.

Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1892, Page 3

Lives by Being Photographed.

• ■ ■ • ■ +- : 1 The most curious occupation heard ]pf lately is that of a young woman ,who earns bread and butter by being photographed. Not for her face and, not for her .figure, except in so far as by means of those she may the vbetter [display a pretty gown. It ■has been a -business occupying a .small number- of women in Paris Jftgulairly for some years back to pose, ior- sketch artists, or before the Wineya.for the composition, of the j&shfori plates sent out with the more expensive French fashion Magazines. Nothing of the sort has Jeep done in New York until lately, American fashion publications either copying their pictures from French and English periodicals directly or tojanjn,g t oiit gowns yjith fancy head piece's—a very barren and insane lancy commo^iy—or calling the first girj. who oamo in sight from the workro' jm to be immortalized. ..'Latterly, there has been a demand fp.V. fashion pictures which looked !dfe like and not wooden, and the utmost 'difficulty has been experienced in getting a better class of art work in them. Women with pretty faces are beginni ng to be appealed to to lend their features and their figures for the purpose. A dimpkd blonde, ■whose husband is at the head of a large publishing house, was in the very act of yielding to the charms of a new tea grown one day recently \yhen her husband interfered lest the magazine readers might recognise the model. The professionaLfashion model will be an institution shortly. The girl spoken of is already in the field. She poses on a divan as carefully as for an Academy picture to DKJjagiOut her own best points and those- of an evening gown ; she plays tennis, she poises an alpenstock. Just now she is skating for next winter's out door gowns. Fashion illustrations have lagged so far behind all other pictures that it has been ruin to a wood engraver who aspired to, anything better to Work on. them. The standard is going to^be raised now. - New York OommerbiaV Advsrtiser. \