NEW MANNEQUIN TYPE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1935, Page 15

NEW MANNEQUIN TYPE

FACES ARE CHANCING

Faces, as well as figures, frocks, and furniture, .have gone modern, states a writer in the London "Daily Telegraph."' You can see this strikingly exampled if you consider the type of face being chosen for the model of the fashionable dress designer -and. the .modern .artistic, photographer. Particularly is this true in the direction of fashion photography. The pretty, face has disappeared, hot only from the chocolate boxes, but from existence. Bone formation is what counts most today. ; , It is as if, following in the footsteps of streamline frocks and furniture devoid of every scrap of unnecessary ornament, faces must rely solely on the structural formation for their interest, . i THE WAY WITH COIFFURE. Faces are, as it were, shorn of un-1 necessary detail. The model's hair, if not reduced to a minimum by skilful thinning and moulding to the shape of the head, is trained well away from the face in chiselled waves, or a classic cluster of curls or knot. Artistic untidiness is• out, of date. The model of today has a look of race, of breeding, and an expression of extreme assurance and sophistication. ,;■■■■.• . She would be horrified if. an oldtime photographer asked her to "look pleasant." Nevertheless ' her austerity has an allure of its own exceeding her predecessor's coy- sweetness.