Judge, 1912-12-14 · page 4 of 26
Judge — December 14, 1912 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The page contains two distinct sections: **"Fashions" Editorial**: Discusses women's fashion trends, particularly the emerging "spring maid" style featuring straight, hipless silhouettes that were becoming fashionable. The author mocks fashion's constant eccentricities and notes that studying past fashion trends reveals how arbitrary current styles appear. **"Session" Cartoon**: Shows a large wicker basket labeled "EXTRA SESSION" with a figure (appearing to be a politician) gesturing helplessly. The caption reads "A magazine to the New York World" and "The Expectant People—And is this ALL we get?" This satirizes what appears to be a Congressional extra session, mocking its limited accomplishments or output—the basket being ironically full of nothing substantial. The "Brief Decisions" section offers cynical aphorisms about society.
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Fashions. HE DETAILS of fashion in dress absorb the attention of many persons. Ofcourse fashion is mostly concerned with the attire of women, who, in spite of their growing inde- pendence, still cherish fasbion as a medium to enslave man, and practice its variations for that purpose and for theirown amusement. The dress of men changes so little in essentials —although your dandy can point out particulars of this month that mark the ‘‘good dresser’’ and matters of last month that are obsolete—that it is hardly worth while to consider it. But it must not be riods man’s vanity was also excessive, if his fashions then meant anything; for he dressed himself extravagantly as to cost and grotesquely as to ap- pearance. An analysis of women’s latter-day fashions will, Jupce thinks, suggest that the sex is attired in ways that relate to woman's great- er freedom and more diversified ac- tivities. Advance information as to the appearance of women—and especially young women—next spring is inter- esting. ‘‘The spring maid,’’ accord- ing to authority, ‘‘is to be straight front, straight back, hipless and curveless as a figure one. She will thought that what are called eccentricities of dress are solely cha teristic of this time. Those who think present fashions are strange shotld refresh their knowledge by ldoking at the fashion plates of for- mer periods. A study of the modes of ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred or even a thousand years back will afford amusement and make the student immune to any odd notion that may be projected by those who make the fashions and those who expose them to public view. A suggestion to the New York” World.” S look like a straight line, with an oblique line at the top, the oblique line being her hat. Skirts are to be so’ narrow that a slash will be re- quired for easy walking.’? One ac- count says that a fashionably dressed woman ‘‘will look like a tipsy T."’ Well, the world of man has in some measure been prepared for this by present fashions. It is a logical de- velopment. And it may be said that the gentler sex—if nowadays it is the gentler—will continue to domin- ate the stronger—if it still be the stronger —for reasons not wholly related to dress, though dress has its potencies. Brief Decisions. The dregs of folly often ac* medicinally. A man who can be bought can be sold. A reputation for hospi- tality costs something. Reputations are made and lost by publicity. Anuntidy damsel never yet made a tidy wife. The ‘hurry’? ways shows in the seams. job al- Sympathy, like advice, costs nothing, but it is In the more remote pe- The Expectant People —And is this ALL we get? more comforting. comicbooks.com