The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
CAMERAS FOOLED BY WOMEN.
MADE TO SNOW BEAUTY WHERE
NONE REALLY EXISTS.

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woman photographic who Takes Pie
lures Of women -Rulcs for Being Pretty
~ have been having troubles OF my own, :
said the woman photographer, dropping
into the woman's club for her afternoon
gossip. Thank heaven, il il a cloudy
Day. Cloudy days are q blessing to tho
photographer. They give him a chance "a
rest.
Il am one OF the women photographers
who take pictures OF fashionable women.
We make women look prettier h they
really are, and our business 10 a paying
one.
Il nave a studio up under the sky. That
10 the fashionable thing to do. You take
q sky top studio, hang out your sign, and
send cards around privately to people. In
q little while you build up your trade.
But you must always keep it small.
Fashionable women do not want crowds
in the studio when they are posing.
my business il to take a plain woman
and make her ideal; and l succeed per-
fectly. All my customers are beauties.
Sometimes 10 comes pretty high, this be-
ing transformed into a beauty.
Fashionable women like womes pho
R~ographers better than men. 1t is this
way. They are ooquettish, they struggle
desperately to be prettier, and they don't
want a man to witness the struggle.
Il used to have q man operator. One
day I vent In under the skylight and there
stood a woman crying. She was dressed
in an evening gown, n on her head rested
n diamond tiara. Yet she was miserable.
81 don't want to hook pleasant, said
she.
4 dismissed the operator and focused
the camera.
Tell mo about it, l said.
AT this she smiled sweetly and began
The recital.
1t is ridiculous said she, but l feel
sensitive when a man stands staring at me
like that. l simply can't look natural
And then she smiled a dazzling smile
ut me. OF course I caught the smile. and
the sitter was delighted.
Il have some rules which l give my
clients. They are these:
Don't get photographed the days you
feel blue. The picture will have a blue
look. Choose one Of your best days.
Don't put on a new gown. 1t will have
a certain stif look. Wear a gown that
has become moulded to your figure. The
better it fits you the better you will look.
Don't go to a hairdresser the day you
are to sit unless the hairdresser il a very
artistic one. You will want your hair put
I'D loosely, and you will want countless
little Ourls around your face. That is. il
YOU are going to look your best.
Plain hair is becoming to the classic
beauty, but unless you are classic don
attempt it.. A hundred little ringlets should
veil POUR ears. n temples and your fore
bead.
only one ear in ten Thousand is pretty.
The chances are that yours are ugly.
Don't run n risks.
1T in the same with your temples. Cover
them with little ourled wisps Of hair unless
they are very classic temples.
Il tell my sitters 10 dress in pale blue
or in pink or something light. II will take
almost white.
Il tell them TO have some detail upon
the gown. My bcst effect lately was in the
case Of a woman who wore q pale violet even
ing gown, with a touch OF black in the make
up. The black set oil the picture, yet there
was not too much of it.
As n rule I have my sitters wear gloves;
hat is. unless they are the owners Of some
art rings. By art rings I mean the inn
mensely effective things worn by BeTnhardt
and Leslie Carter in their photographs.
These rings are big enough to show off
well in a picture. A small ring, OF one
with a moderate sized stone, looks simply
like q blemish in the picture.
Gloves are always becoming and always
graceful. and a woman's hand looks very
pretty in gloves At the same time they
plump out the arms and conceal the blem-
ishe$.
-wom en- sometimes come to me with
rouge upon the face. Now, as every pho
tographer knows, red takes black. And the
result is an ugly dark skin that is admired
by nom We don't like makeup az a gen.
erai thing.
when it comes to taking the picture, We
like to use a little red paint upon the lips,
n the lips are thin. I like to draw a line
around the mouth, bringing out the Cupid's
rhad a woman come into my studio some
time ago. She was dressed In a purple bro
cade that she had brought from France:
Her neck was high and she had q choked
iook; Her hair was ar dres SEQ SO ssli''y 'ha' 1t
Mercy I said to myself, when I saw
a'My husband said she, with a wistful
amile, is travelling abroad. and would
like to send him a photograph OF me.
these. He Bought them in Belgium
"OpeninG an envelope, she drew out a
package OF photographs and spread them
out before me. There was Camille Clifford,
dressed in one OF her wonderful White gowns,
fitting her like the paper on the wall.
There was Cleo de Merode in a black lace
gown over white, a chic creation, which
makes her look like a dream. And there
were others, ever 80 many Of them, exquisite
women, all photographed and perfect.
my husband, said the woman, with a
sort Of apology in her voice, likes pretty
pictures and he sent me these. wish-I
Wish and she hesitated a second, I wish
] could have my picture taken to send back
20 him-like theseP
AS she was forty, stout, not at all pretty
and with scanty hair, l had my doubts.
But I resolved to 70 to work. Here was a
chance for the home missionary.
Come tomorrow, l said, and wear a
white princess gown. Don't have a particle
of trimming upon il. Let the neck be low
and bring a string Of pearls. Choose the
Sirst pleasant day. II Is hard to photo
graph on a cloudy day, because the exposure
4 too long. Choose a bright. nice day,
and wear a white cloth or a white silk prin-
ceas, II you have one
well, she appeared clad in her white
princess gown. It had a trailing skirt and
the neck was low.
Around the throat there hung a string