Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-30

Toned it will be borne to the would
be purchaser and she will understand
its possibilities as she never would if
she saw it only on lay figure. A
good model, one who really under
stands her business, can sell any
amount Of gowns that might be I'M
noticed and passed over otherwise.
The importance or the model as an
eauJunct 10 trade is not recognized SO
widely here IN America as 1t is
ABROAD" he went on 10 say. AT
RCuffe's and other famous outftters in
farls and London Inere are models
not only Oh one type of beauty but OF
ali me varying types-blonde, brunette
ana intermediate compilations. One
mUuei Will be tall, slender and will
Iowy in form; another VIII be plump
ana peu,e; announcer Iau ana OF Juno
IKE proportions, all styles 10 suit a
Varying type or customer. The would
ur purchaser Is shown into a room that
GEARS no outward sign OF the nature
oI me business 10 be transacted. A
lew gooQ pictures, hover or Two,
OUT everything very PLAIN in furnish
ing and appointments. What style of
gown does madame require? a tacto-
tum has asked at the door; and &C
coruing 10 the kind OF gown ordered is
ING special room into which madame Is
shown, one apartment being devoted
10 the purchasers OF bail ana reception
toilets, anotner TO street suits, yet an
UCner 10 outing gowns and costumes
Lur the house. Mauame. waits In the
empty room and soon model, in ap-
pearance somewhat near her physical
type, comes in ana wakes quietly
ABOUT that the customer may see the
gown she wears in every aspect, side
WISE, back, front and Ihree-QuarterS
view. That gown having been sur
yeyed the model wlIndraws and an
otner OF The same type, but wearing a
dluerent gown, takes ner place, and
so the toilets are shown unul madame
selects the one she hikes.
This, of course, is IN 1astidious es-
ADJUSTMENTS, where the artist Will not
make cape Tor snort, stout woman
OF oCnerWlse violate his principles. The
n4odels abroad have a much harder
LlIne in some ways than they have on
THIS side OF the water. A moderately
good figure Will command a good price
III New York, put in Far. S and London
tney demand absolute perfection.
1nere the models are required TO wear
COrsets that, IN the ugId nature OF
! II n
comfortable, and a model who has
made reputation for shapeliness dare
not relax her laclnss even when off
uuty, 1or lear she might spoil The en-
vIable taper of her waist. In some re-
speCts, however, even although the
wages there are smaller, the foreign
models have Inc, advantage over those
mere. Very handsome toilets are fur
nlshed them that they may always ap-
pear in keeping WIN their luxurious
surroundings, and in many cases they
ave In the house Wnere Lnelr work is
carried on, free OF charge, good accom-
modations and good service being fur
nIsned Aor them
In the matter of education and gen.
Il dl 0lIlClCuCy, liz COuIluuSu, 4 Iuluh
me American models are OF a higher
type. The foreign models have good
luanners-have quite an air, in tact,
when addressing customers and the
strangers with whom they come in
contact, but it is just the sort of patols
I of their trade. 1t is considered an in
rlngement OF good breeding for them
TO use any but the third person in
addressing a stranger, and they tall
readily into the rut OF observance and
custom, making really an excellent ap-
pearance. The majority OF them have
very little education. Here in New
York they are fairly intelligent, we'll
spoken girls, and are models of pro-
priety as well as of physique, though
l do not mean that their foreign
sisters fail in propriety, either.
Many models are women of refine
ment and intelligence, but neither at
tribute is essential to their calling. A
young person possessing the requisite
physical development may be a most
acceptable model and yet have no
mental cultivation whatever. The
models for the pictures to be used as
advertisements by the house sit to ar
lists employed exclusively for that
purpose. They don the handsome hats
and gowns and make charming sub
jects.'