Judge — May 17, 1913 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# "Summer Breezes" - Judge Magazine, May 17, 1913 This illustration depicts a whimsical fantasy where a woman in an enormous, billowing white dress and decorative hat floats upward, carried aloft by giant clouds. The caption "Summer Breezes" plays on the literal effect of wind lifting her voluminous skirts—a visual gag about the impracticality of women's fashion of the era. The satire likely mocks both the absurdly exaggerated silhouettes of 1913 women's clothing and the vulnerability such fashions created in public settings. The image suggests that the fashionable woman, weighed down by elaborate hats and massive skirts, becomes almost comically uncontrollable when exposed to natural forces—poking fun at the tension between genteel femininity and physical reality.