CAN YOU POSE?

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 47, 22 November 1890, Page 15

CAN YOU POSE?

YOUNG WOMEN WHO CAN ARE IN DEMAND IN DRAWINC ROOMS.

The posing young woman is very much to the fore, and, as fashionable drawing-rooms are furnished with a view to aiding her in her artistic desires, she is happy. You see a tall slender girl in some sort of soft frock draped in Greek fashion, with fillets of gold about her hair, standing in one corner of the room under a tall palm tree. You think what a good background she has and how lovely the entire effect is, and if you are a man you believe it is an accident. If you are a woman you give her an admiring glance and say to your chum : * She has her pose.’ You see a tailor-made girl, who is calling, with her hand clasped behind her, standing up in a very erect way against the side of a mantel-shelf, and it all seems to harmonize—the natural wood, the straight lines of her figure, the somewhat decided way in which she is speaking, the polish on her patent leather shoes and her smoothly braided hair. She has succeeded ; she is posed there. There’s another girl who has come in in a lingering, dawdling sort of a way, enveloped in a long, soft, full cloak, and with a picture hat laden with plumes, crowning a mass of fluffy, disorderly hair, and after she has said her good afternoon to the hostess she half sits, half recline- against a pile of cushions ; one of her adorers brings a footstool to her, and her small foot, in its Louis Quinze shoe, shows to best advantage, and she drawls as she talks. She’s got her pose. It’s the semi-lazy, semi-serpentine effect of a woman who looks awkward in a tailor suit, whose angles are too many for her to pose against a palm tree, but who is filled in and rounded by her full draperies and her soft, many-coloured backgrounds. They do study it out, and there is no reason why one should dislike it. If a woman looks the lietter for being well posed society is the gainer rather than the loser bv it.