Judge — March 11, 1916 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "After a Fashion" This cartoon by Chester Gould depicts a well-dressed gentleman in a top hat conversing with a fashionably-dressed woman wearing an elaborate fur coat and feathered hat. The title "After a Fashion" appears to be a satirical commentary on social pretense or superficial adherence to fashion and etiquette among the upper classes. The woman's ostentatious clothing—particularly the large fur and elaborate millinery—suggests wealth or aspirations to wealth. The man's formal attire and cane indicate similar social standing. The cartoon likely mocks either empty social interactions, pretentious fashion following, or the hollowness of upper-class "polite society." Without additional context, the specific social critique remains somewhat ambiguous, though it clearly targets fashionable society's vanities.