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Show HAVING ONE'S PICTURE TAKEN. A Few Suggestions by One Who Has Studied the Subject. Generally ypeaklng, dark dresses should be avoided. Red, especially. Is a bad color to choose, as it comes out Intensely In-tensely black. Even for old ladles it looks much better to have something light and soft folded about the neck and shoulders. Sheer fabrics and good laco always look well In photographa If nicely arranged. Where possible a low-neck low-neck dress should be chosen, if one Is not too thin, since the lines of the neck and throat are almost the prettiest part of many photographs, say3 a writer In the Housekeeper. Where ono does not care to wear a regulation evening dress, having one Just slightly open at the throat Is infinitely preferable to a high stock collar. A chiffon or moussellne de sole fichu Is as artistic a thing- as one can find, unless one be fortunate enough to have some delicate piece of old lace which can be arranged In somewhat similar lines. Some faces look more attractive when framed, as it wore, by a large picture hat (ordinary hats arc- generally a mistake mis-take In photographs), and this, in combination com-bination with a low-necked dress, is not against the canons of good taste, though It might easily be so if the wrong kind of hat were used. An opera cloak (Klged with something light and fluffy Is pretty thrown loosely over the shoulders, especially if one prefers not to have too much of the neck and shoulders shoul-ders showing. Arranging the hair becomingly, so as to avoid any hard lines where It touches the face, Is very Important. The style of bringing a solid mass of hair low over the forehead is one that needs the most careful treatment in the world to prevent Its ruining the picture. Indeed, In-deed, it ,1s well to avoid extreme 'styles (which are always ephemeral and look almost vulgar when they are no longer fashionable) In a photograph not only of dressing the hair, but In what one wears to be photographed In. This is. of course, especially Important In a full-length full-length portrait, for. although we ull get to like what is fashionable, however outrageous we first thought It, an exaggerated ex-aggerated protuberance in sleeve, bustle or any lines which are not those of the natural figure, become distasteful later on, and we feel inclined to burn up the photograph when we see It in our friends' houses. |