Judge, 1912-02-10 · page 9 of 24
Judge — February 10, 1912 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct pieces of satire from Judge magazine: **Top illustration**: "The Tipping Question Solved—The Waiterless Restaurant" depicts a futuristic automated restaurant where mechanical servers (appearing as robot-like contraptions) deliver food, eliminating the social awkwardness of tipping waiters—a contemporary etiquette dilemma. **Bottom content**: "How a Man's Clothes Look to a Woman" by Harvey Peake is a humorous critique of men's formal fashion. The accompanying caricatures show men at "Eight A.M." (presumably arriving somewhere) and "Five P.M." (departing). The text mockingly describes each element of men's clothing—hats, collars, vests, coats, trousers, suspenders—as absurd, uncomfortable, and illogical conventions that men blindly follow despite their impracticality. The satire targets the rigid, restrictive nature of early 1900s menswear fashion and masculine conformity.
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THE TIPPING QUESTION SOLVED—THE WAITERLESS RESTAURANT. The How a Man's Clothes Look to a Woman. VERYTHING that a man wears is silly and without reason. Begin- ning at his head, we find a hideous de- vice of silk or felt, that is so hard and tight that it leaves a red rim about his forehead when it is removed. If it should vary an eighth of an inch in any particular from the one in the haber- dasher’s window marked ‘‘New Model 1912,” it is out of style and must be instantly replaced by one built along the prop- er lines, no matter how unbecoming it may be. Just below the hat we encounter a four or eight ply band of cotton or linen, about which a string of colored silk is so tightly drawn that any use of the throat or windpipe is fraught with danger. Thisisacollar and cravat. Attached to the front of the collar is a stiff or semi-stiff layer of ma- terial, whose function it By HARVEY PEAKE. is to lie smooth and unperturbed, but which insists, upon the contrary, in cracking, breaking, rumpling, or rolling up in a puff just under the chin. This is called by courtesy a shirt bosom, but is really a perpetual cataclysm. Worn over this is a hollow sham called a vest or waistcoat. Its front is of rich material, but the back shrinks out of sight in a much inferior -stuff and be- comes a whited, grayed, or blacked AU_ REVOIR. FIVE P.M. Viewpoint. sepulcher, as the case may be. Out- side of this is worn a garment with two tails (which is one more than is allowed any other animal). Above the upper terminal of these tails are two ridiculous buttons, for the purpose of fastening the wearer of the garment to any article of furniture upon which he may be sitting. This is a coat. Depending below the coat and waist- coat are two cloth stovepipes for incas- ing the lower extremi- ties of the he biped. They swing from the shoulders by decorated rubber straps that cause their owner to resemble, in appearance and feel- ing, a harnessed jackass. These are trousers and suspenders. The bottoms of the trousers fail to reach the shoes by about three inches, and this intersec- tion is covered with a section of colored silk half hose that does not correspond in the least comicbooks.com