Judge — July 17, 1926 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis **Top cartoon:** A young person (likely a son or daughter) lounges luxuriously while writing to their father, complaining that $200 monthly allowance is insufficient. The satire mocks entitled youth and parental indulgence during what appears to be the Jazz Age/1920s, when $200 represented substantial income for ordinary workers. **Bottom cartoon:** Mocks fashion trends where women wear elaborate evening capes and silk suits to the beach. The joke suggests men are absurdly responding by wearing formal tuxedo bathing suits—satirizing how ridiculous it is when fashion logic becomes inverted or when formality invades casual settings. Both cartoons critique the era's consumer culture and fashion excess among the wealthy leisure class.