Judge — March 16, 1929 — page 1: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This is the March 16, 1929 cover of *Judge* magazine, priced at 15 cents. The main image is an artistic illustration of a woman in partial dress with a fur stole, posed suggestively. The caption reads "The Wearin' of the Green." The joke likely plays on the double meaning of "wearing the green"—both the Irish idiom (meaning to wear green on St. Patrick's Day, celebrated mid-March) and a sexual innuendo about partial undress. The illustration's suggestive pose and styling were typical of *Judge*'s humor during the Jazz Age, when the magazine frequently published provocative artwork with cheeky wordplay targeting adult audiences. The artwork is signed by what appears to be the illustrator, though the signature is partially unclear.