Judge, 1926-08-07 · page 32 of 36
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This page contains a short story titled "What! No Clothes?" about Betty Barlow, a young woman with virtually no wardrobe who desperately wants to attend a prestigious ball at the Astor hotel. The humor derives from the era's social anxiety about fashion and status: Betty owns only worn, damaged, or outdated dresses and feels she cannot possibly attend without proper attire. Her dramatic friend Thelma commiserates until Betty decides to go anyway, joking that her bare appearance will force the venue to "turn 'em away"—suggesting that shocking audacity might succeed where poverty prevents respectability. The story satirizes 1920s-30s women's preoccupation with fashion and social standing, while also gently mocking the desperation some women felt about their limited wardrobes during economically uncertain times. The page also features contest winners for "Draw Your Own Conclusions" (a visual puzzle feature) and period advertisements for dandruff treatment and dietary education.
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What! No Clothes? TTY BARLOW had no clothes. Not that she was a classic nude exactly, but what she had is termed by the sex as “no clothes.” Her wardrobe consisted of two tricotine dresses, one silk dress torn in a critical location, one evening dress soiled and passé, and a blue organdie that might have looked nice at a ver; i Betty and her roomm that Betty, with an invit nicest stage gatherings of the season, was out of luck, “Oh, Betty, what a fool a girl who has no clothes is to be born!" said Thelma. “Oh, Thelma, if I ever get any clothes again I won't wear ‘em. They cried in each other's arms for a moment. Suddenly Betty said, “I'm going to that affair no matter what happens!” Any girl who goes to a ball at the Astor wearing hair like a golden bush and not much else is going to have to turn "em away! “Belly in Blue,” by Vita Delmas, in the current isgue of SNAPPY Stories. Now on all newsstands— 20 cents. FOR DANDRUFF GLOVER'’S exercises an antiseptic effect on the scalp. Cleanses, stim- ulates. Write for Free Book “How to Have Beautiful Hair and a Healthy Scalp.” It will tell you many things you should know: Write Dept. AC54. H. Clay Glover Co., Ine. 119-121 Fifth Ave. New York poche, HeRY, witbont health. Solvents, i PROPER CONDftic ONS blood clots, lime in joints {enabl- liminate catarrhal, matter from nose, hials, ete, PYORRHOEA. See reprint PREGNA! ae Delivery painless. Eat iT OCCUPATION, prevent in blood [basis of ail dlocase]. Educational Booklet 10c. BRINKLER SCHOOLOF EATING, Dept. 16-D, 131 West 72nd St.,New York nerve or muscle food ‘Undue retention of W. Winner of Draw Your Own Conclusions | Contest No. 50 C. G. Williams, 27 Twenty-second street, West New York, N. ¥. | Runners Up poo Crauford Benedict, Chatham, N. J. Guy B. Horne, Emery Mills Wm. A. Fritsch, Ridgewood, L. 1. W. R. Hanks, Cheyenne, Wyo. W. E. Garabedian, Nantucket Island, Mass. R. M. Blain, Toronto, Can. 30 comicbooks.com