Peki-Chien by de Vaudreuil

This page from Gazette du Bon Ton pairs fashion illustration with satirical prose. A woman in an elongated gray coat and striking blue accents stands beside a small black poodle—the titular "Peki-Chien" (Pekingese-dog). The accompanying text mocks the fashionable affectation of keeping toy dogs as accessories, suggesting they are pampered "luxury dogs" perfumed with Golliwog cologne each morning. The illustration technique—pen line with watercolor wash—typifies the magazine's elegant Art Deco aesthetic. Yet the satire targets real class anxieties: the text ironically laments how such beloved pets are forgotten when their owners encounter important gentlemen, their small paws trampled in distraction. Fashion magazines inherited the caricaturist's tradition of social observation, using visual wit to expose vanity and pretension among the wealthy.