The clothes are as much the reason for this portrait as the woman in them, in fact her face is nearly secondary in this pose even though there is no doubt she is attractive, elegant and quite suited to her fashion. The one flaw is that the photographer cut the image off drastically at the hem – either in the camera or on the print – which is inexplicable in my opinion. So many portraits from this decade were composed in extreme profile in order to show the details of the bustle (see others under the Vagaries of Fashion heading here), but the photographer is trying something different here, leaving us wondering where the subject's attention is focused or why she is not looking at the camera. Definitely different. Definitely interesting to look at.