Judge, 1886-02-20 · page 5 of 16
Judge — February 20, 1886 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct elements: **"Woman and Dress"** (left column): A satirical essay mocking fashion conventions and women's body consciousness. The author criticizes how thin women will wear vertical stripes (which elongate the figure) while fat women wear white (which broadens appearance), suggesting women are slaves to fashion's impossible standards. The piece argues this vanity is absurd—comparing it to people jumping from the Tower of Pisa—yet women remain obsessed with dress despite the futility. **"Child's Cent Per Cent"** (right): A cartoon and accompanying advice column where a father scolds his son for lacking "sense," and the son replies he was never given any. The accompanying letters appear to be humorous advice from public figures (Lillian Russell, Prince Henry of Battenberg) on matters of dress and marriage. The overall satire targets **Victorian-era women's fashion obsession** and **rigid gender expectations** around appearance, ridiculing both the impracticality of fashion trends and women's internalized pressure to conform to them.
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JUDGKE. WOMAN AND DRESS. THIN WOMEN AND STRIPES“FAT WOMEN IN WHITE Stripes are to be very) prominent in the spring suit nid it does not need a profes: sional satirest to tell us that all the 1 thin women will wear them, If a woman have a bust measure of thirty inches and a_height of five feet ten, and offer to the scientifie ;publ bulating study in anate all your mortgaged property. 01 she will take upon herself the suj f look even lor than she is by arraying herself in longitudinal stripes, It seems as if in dress wo pred by that same dark : action which makes people w themselves over “and jump from the tower of Pisa, just Talk about won ina while much talked as in leaving undone those thi those things ve done to her clothes. Fatuer—* You do pm to have d the high serenity of a box, Sox" "Canse you er ve me any.” many hopelessly fat women re - who were not a Pf] fresh stock, and is so situated as to interfere | receive corroborative evidence with respect t Th she be told every day ie year that | much more seriously with the inalienable right something as to which you are possibly p it needlessly increases her resemblance of the ped 5 ay. | tially informed . mountain, the fat woman isas faithfu Then think of the property that will stand a) Lilian Russell—The matronly amplitude of woman with collar-bones is to bare | chance of being restored to its rightful owners, | form of whieh you con does you honor, or the one with hands to fa nd the va articles of domestic life and you earry it as if it belonged to you by gloves, or the one with a large fac rion from the path of | right—which it does. Don't fret about a little bonnets, The woman with the se ’ k | duty, will « rmitted to undisturbedly thing like that. Grace and beauty are well has now less exeuse than usual fe fulfill their lawful functions; for the one | enough, but don't we all know that they. can't in their full enormity, her deficienc failure of the mechanical genius of the age has | last always? the d less spectator, for it is at present | been its inability to make a bustle bi Selina Delaro—You think it’s “much easier particularly the thi yourself up | to meet the requirements of the di to drvss one's self ina great deal than in ith some sort of dressin Eve, who have, therefore, always been fore “do yout Will you kindly explain ot that you wear your evening dresses h nt this deficiency byan unserupulous | furt It has always seemed tous that the s the prejudices | ; tion of newspapers, sheets, Insbands’ | Tes te eo and there was ne of civilization will permit if you like; but just | shirts man so happy or so rich as Adan at his period ar chin, jar fashion, 9 ar | pressing ent; and as it) when his wife presented herself in the una nted_ piece of velvet ribbon, « is usually within these exigencies that the | dorned beauty of the chorus girl of this », ora veritable dog-collar 1: newspaper shall be the last one, sheets | Prince Henryof Battenberg—You go to the Ttoge: : ‘ off the bed, and the shirt the only ele: Marquis of Lorne and consult him. He } you are young pretty q and the sealskin a sister-in-li had a pretty long experience and knows all an exquisite to your cheek that neither polities nor reli about the ways of her majesty. Don't, how will consent to hide a very small proportion of | thropy ever broke so many eternal friendships © value your connubial happiness ’ isin this way. But if you are old | or destroyed so much domestic happiness as and thin and have a j ne that looks pow- | the predatory bustle erful rival apon of attack that Samson used, in such case it isaltogether probable that you will declare a noble inde By all means let the newspaper be restored to its original humble but honest paths of in dustry; the sheets and the shirts and the seal skin Steques left to their uneventful but pr destined careers, and let us depend alone upon Edward E, your supposition that the less aw wears the sheis. Wi look upon a etely dressed person of that sex pendence of enslavi m, and deny us such slight relief as a dog-collar might afford ited States mail, While it Uthat such a woman may per ae haps mean well, we loathe and despise her for THE JUDGE'S LETTER-BOX. the ignorance which brings about her brazen conventionality R. Conkling—Therw are plenty of back seats, General Crook—Give the Hon, Mr. Geron we think, and if your are quite anxious per: small quantity of kuidanum and put him ones who decide ‘1 »| ingenuity of man has so far been able to t tournieres, boutfant d el evolve, unin ing ats t may be ptelligent slang, " YL. CHRISTIE. grow less. rat is the present development that they should grow bi by the Spencerian law of the instability of matter to get smaller, just as the poet sings that it is the darkest hour before the dawn and the wisdom of the ages declares it is a long lane that has no tnrning. Dion Boucicault You are right in your haps the boys ‘IL let you occupy the whole of He is suffering from over exertion and the needs rest. The killing of half a hundred per sons is no slight job, we can tell you, to xuy i ol he labor ee lo escape thi supposition that John Brougham wrote “Lon. | 2othing of the labor ny ¥ bo escapo th don Assurance;” but we must ask you te mit that Augustin Daly wrote all the comedy which has superior excellence. And how much more room there will be in the world when we get around the corner of this particular lane and these enormous. pos hand of a considerable populace. When the Hon. Mr. Geronimo awakes feed him on spoon vietuals and as he shall be amply protected |, in effect, add three feet to the width of | Arthur Richmond —Nobody knows, my boy; | strong enough to be the streets; for a good sized bustle takes up as | but if you were to address a note to W. TL you know, dear : only possible much room as the toy balloons of aman with a | Hurlbert and another to Mr, Dana you might way to settle the Indian question additions to lovely woman are reduced. comicbooks.com