Judge — November 26, 1927 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine presents "Studies in the Naive—II," depicting "The flapper who waited under the mistletoe to be kissed." The cartoon satirizes the "flapper" archetype—young women of the 1920s known for their modern, liberated behavior and fashion. The multiple scenes show various social situations in what appears to be an upscale interior setting, with figures in formal attire and casual poses. The satire targets the contradiction between flappers' reputation for boldness and independence versus their supposedly naive expectation of romantic gestures (waiting under mistletoe). The scenes appear to mock both the flapper's behavior and the men's responses, suggesting the gap between the flapper's self-image as sophisticated and worldly versus the reality of their social interactions.