Fashion Plates.
The spirit ot reform has extended itself, it appears, even to the milliners' and dressmakers' fashion plates. Somebody has asked why the ladies in these pictorial representations should always be persons of insipidly regular features, when it would be so easy to employ for this purpose photographs from the life of pretty women, with faces that have some meaning in them 1 Bnt this was only the suggestion of an outsider. " The costumier," the ' Photographic News' tells us, "knows better." A proprietor of a fashion magazine thus explains the philosophy of the question:—"l tried photographs once, but never again. A photograph may do when yon want to show a bonnet or a hat only ; but for a cottume, where the full-length figure is wanted, the dumpiness which the camera gives is fatal. Our fashion ladies must be 'divinely tall,' but in photographs they are always short and squat. After all, ladies don't buy fashion plates for the faces, and, if the waists which our artist gives the figures are impossible, everybody knows they are so, The whole thing is conventional."
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Evening Star, Issue 8614, 7 September 1891, Page 4
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182Fashion Plates. Evening Star, Issue 8614, 7 September 1891, Page 4
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