Judge — January 7, 1911 — page 1: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is the cover of *Judge* magazine from January 7, 1911. The caption "A Sketch of the Show-Fur Girl" refers to a contemporary fashion trend: young women wearing elaborate, showy fur garments and accessories. The silhouetted illustration depicts a fashionable woman in a large feathered hat and heavy fur coat or stole—typical of Edwardian/early 1910s high fashion. The exaggerated, somewhat grotesque rendering satirizes the excess and ostentation of this trend among affluent women. The joke likely critiques both the vanity of fashion-obsessed women and perhaps the waste involved in such conspicuous display during an era of economic inequality. *Judge*, a satirical magazine, frequently mocked contemporary social pretensions through such caricatural fashion commentary.