What is that?!

    There is a belief held by people of the theatre that nobody over the age of twenty-five should allow themselves to be photographed from below. Here, the camera had evidently been half-a-flight beneath the diva, who therefore appeared to be richly endowed with chins and more than slightly en bon point. The Governer-General, by some momentary accident, seemed to regard her with incredulity and loathing.

(from Photo Finish, by Dame Ngaio Marsh)