Judge — August 12, 1922 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# "A One-Piece Orchestra" (Judge, August 12, 1922) This cover features a woman in a cloche hat and flapper-style dress playing a ukulele while striking a theatrical pose. The caption "A One-Piece Orchestra" is a double entendre: it references both the single-piece bathing suits becoming fashionable in the 1920s and the humorous idea that this one performer constitutes an entire band. The image satirizes the Jazz Age trend of women adopting more casual, modern fashions and entertainments. The ukulele was a popular, accessible instrument among young women during this period. Judge is mocking the modern "flapper" culture—women's newfound social freedoms, shorter hemlines, and participation in previously male-dominated entertainment—through playful visual wit about how one fashionable woman could seemingly replace an entire orchestra.