Judge, 1930-06-28 · page 3 of 37
Judge — June 28, 1930 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# "We Give Up" — Judge Magazine, June 1930 This cartoon compares fashion and social trends between June 1929 and June 1930. The left panel shows 1929 styles: a woman in a short, patterned dress with bobbed hair and a man in a plaid suit with normal proportions. The right panel depicts 1930 fashions: the same couple now wears exaggerated, androgynous clothing—the woman in a longer dress with masculine styling, the man in oversized formal wear with notably broader shoulders. The title "We Give Up" suggests the cartoonist's satirical surrender to rapidly changing, seemingly illogical fashion trends. The joke mocks how quickly fashion dictates transformed clothing silhouettes and gender presentation in early 1930s style, reflecting contemporary anxiety about modernism's effects on traditional gender norms.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
wy 24 1330 Oc 7 5814 Jack Snurttewortu, Editor Groxce Jeax NatHan — Ricuaro J. Wats Sioxey S. Lenz, Contributing Editors JUDGING THE NEWS ins year it’s hard to tell whether they're beach pajamas or rented bathing suits. Av! dispatch announces that it rained mud in Oklahoma recently. The natives, however, thought it was just another gubernatorial campaign. A’? then there’s the affliction that they can't do anything about: athle brain. Boston man has, been sentenced to prison for 223 years. Which should get him out just about the tin the Red Sox win their next pennant, T" Graf Zeppelin recently made a new record. Half way around the world without a stowaw A’ the bootleg racket is getting so crowded in this country that a lot of the boys are leaving for India and going in the salt business. ] JUNE «1929 4 We Give Up 00 Bea JUNE 1930 JUDGE, Volume 94, No. 2539. June 25. 19. 1879. Additional ent jamaica, And copyrighted 1030. by It in the Secretary, 18 Fast 48th St. New Y tered $5.00 wy lar attention ts ealled ‘Visions of Section 3 of the Copyright Law of the U z ta econd: Clay Matter, October 21, TASH: at the Post OGice at Now Vor, WN, Britain: Pred Lo Rogan, Pres suey. Leas Vice Presents Verbal W. Dates. Treasurer: Joseph 1. (% reat Betain: Rogan. President: sidney ®. Lena, Vice President: Verna Partieul alled to the fact that every article pd pleture appearing in JUDGE Ws protected under the under act of Mareh 3, Fast sth Street, New York, ‘ooney, pro comicbooks.com