Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-26
A PHOTOGRAPH FAD.
YOUNG WOMAN TO LOOK HER
PRE1TIrsT SHOULD POSE IN HAT.
Many Try n Gainsbog OUgh-If Miiady
wishes TO Appear Particularly
AristocratIc. Let Her Don Evening
Dress with Her Large Headgear.

Correspondent Of the Dspatch)
NEW YORK. September 2.-Young
ladies'. would you be both artistic and
fashionable? Then have your pictures
taken in large hats This is the latest
positively. the very latest, and 1t is as
fetching as II can DO. 1t is sure to be
q popular idea, for what young woman
would not favor any legitimate plan that
makes her look pretty?
The hat should be Of the Gainsborough
order or something akin thereto, and
this years styles give one SO much lati-
tude that 1t is entirely possible to COM
ply with the latest demand Of the smart
set and still look as If one were dressed
for some ordinary event, instead OF so
momentous occasion as facing the
camera. 1t used 10 be the way that al
most any ono who could master the
technical knowledge necessary TO utilize
tho suns rays In picturing human
being was fully equipped as a photo
grapher, No one expected TO look well,
particularly, when their picture was
taken. Il being considered amply efficient
II the resemblance TO ones features was
fairly excellent.
But nowadays il is altogether different
The photographer must not only be an
artist so far the appearance of the
word on his sign Is concerned, but he
must also be a bona ide affair, capable
OF posing. and, II necessary, causing his
sitters TO alter the arrangement of hair
or apparel. in order that the very best
result be secured. 1t Is the advent of
persons capable of these things into
Photography that has brought about
matters like this new fad. for none but
q photographer and born artist would
have ever conceived so quaint and charm
ing a thought as this one is proving 10
be- one has no idea OF the unsupported
beauties which may DO developed in a
very plain young woman by the use
Of what has come 10 be known as the
picture hat. The trouble often is with
4 feminine whom Nature has given
ample proportions. both of face and body,
that she insists upon wearing a small
hat, close brim and OF shape altogether
about as fitted TO her particular style
OF humanity as green and blue are TO
form fetching combination.
Now comes the artistic photographer,
The young woman goes TO him 10 have
her likeness immOrtalized, and mourns
the fact that she "never looks well in a
picture" The sharp-eyed artist needs no
observation-glass to discern the reason.
The young lady has said she wishes to
be "taken with her hat on" Ye gods.
what hat! This is where the new hat
comes In II the artist is really clever.
He tells the sitter that the very latest
way 10 have ones picture taken Is 10
pose I'm as large a hat as one can com
fortably appear in. IL takes. The large
hat is secured. and when tho young
woman sees the proofs OF her pictures
she declares that the photographer Is a
dear" and Is the only man who ever
succeeded in taking a picture OF her that
resembled her in the least. Victory for
the new fad.
The facts in the case have only lust
come out, 80 far as the general adoption
OF the ldea is concerned. We have hearc
rumors OF the popularity OF the plan for
some time, but the butterfly cf beauty
has only just emerged from its crysalis.
so far as the public is concerned, and
now we may look for lively fight
thereof among the flower OF the feminine
population
Another fact which contributes some
what 20 the popularity OF the combina-
ton OF beauty and photography is that
the best artists OF to-day are those who
can best pose their patrons. Posing is
rs much a gut az painting. lhere are |
many photographers who have eyes that |
are artistic enough. goodness knows but |
their pictures are always stiff. There is |
something that makes the observer al |
ways think: what Is there about that |
picture that gives you such an unfavor- |
able impression? II is pretty, and yet |
II Is ugly as we'll"
Dame Rumor has Il that |; is to a new /
woman that the development OF the /
picture hat fad Is due. The lady Is Miss
Alice Hughes. young American who
went 70 London. England a year or two
age with the idea that she would there
una better fe,d for new idea she
haa man The United States offered. That
Idea was TO pay especial attention 10
posing. 10 make every sitter TO appear
y the photograph as IL she was taken
ktom painting. The result was delight