Life — March 7, 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine shows three illustrations of horse-drawn vehicles depicting fashionable transportation styles. The top two panels illustrate "Coaching" and "Box Running" — likely references to popular upper-class recreational driving trends of the era. The bottom panel is labeled "Jaunting Car: Tandem Fashion." The satire appears to target the ostentatious display and competitive one-upmanship among wealthy society figures regarding their choice of conveyances. Each illustration showcases progressively elaborate vehicles and larger groups of fashionably-dressed passengers, suggesting mockery of how the affluent competed to own and display the most impressive carriages and coaching setups. The text fragment "For the seem of" at bottom is incomplete in this OCR'd version, limiting full interpretation of the intended message.