Life, 1895-12-26 · page 1 of 51
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# Life Magazine, December 26, 1895 This page features a single cartoon titled "An Ideal Device" with the subtitle "Prevents the necktie from slipping up the collar. Every man should have one." The image shows a man from behind with a woman embracing him from the front, her arms around his neck. The joke is a double entendre playing on Victorian propriety: the caption presents the woman as a practical "device" to keep a man's necktie in place by holding his collar area—but the real humor lies in the intimate physical contact itself, which would be scandalous by 1890s standards. The satire gently mocks both men's fashion concerns and Victorian social conventions around acceptable physical proximity between unmarried men and women.
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* VOLUME XXVI. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 26, 1895. NUMBER 678. 4 Emered at the New York Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter, Copyright, 1895. by Maroon. & Minus AN IDEAL DEVICE. PREVENTS THE NECKTIE FROM SLIPPING UP THE COLLAR, EVERY MAN SHOULD HAVE ONE,