Life — October 9, 1913 — page 43: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily an advertisement for a new magazine called "Dress & Vanity Fair," promoting its October issue. The elegant Art Deco illustration depicts a fashionable woman in 1920s style—wearing a white beaded dress, dark headband, and long pearl necklace—gazing at herself in a crescent moon mirror. She holds a compact or hand mirror, emphasizing vanity and self-regard. The image embodies the magazine's focus areas: fashion, society, and the arts. The stylized, sophisticated aesthetic appeals to upscale readers interested in contemporary style and culture. Rather than political satire, this functions as lifestyle advertising targeting women concerned with fashion and social standing during the Jazz Age era.