Judge — December 20, 1924 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Judge Christmas Number, December 20, 1924 This cover satirizes changing social customs for women in the 1920s. The caption "THE MODERN MISS HANGS UP HER STOCKINGS" plays on the traditional Christmas image of children hanging stockings for Santa Claus, but here a young woman does so—suggesting adult women now participate in holiday traditions previously associated with children. The humor likely reflects anxiety about "modern" women's independence during the Jazz Age. The woman's pose and contemporary dress embody the "flapper" stereotype of the era. By depicting her alongside traditional Christmas imagery (wreath, domestic setting), Judge satirizes the tension between Victorian domestic roles and the emerging independence of 1920s women who increasingly worked, voted, and socialized independently.