Life — March 29, 1923 — page 19: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a satirical sketch series titled "Impossible Adventures," with this installment captioned "Come just as you are, dear." The faint pencil drawings depict multiple figures in what appears to be a social scenario. The sketch shows several people in formal dress, with one figure prominently positioned at the top left. The composition suggests a social gathering or invitation scenario. The satire likely plays on the tension between formal social expectations and the casual, modern sentiment of the caption. The "come as you are" phrase—suggesting informality and acceptance—contrasts with what appear to be formally-dressed figures, creating humor around changing social conventions or the gap between stated casual attitudes and actual social pretensions. Without clearer visual detail or additional context, the specific social critique remains somewhat ambiguous, though it appears to address early 20th-century social etiquette shifts.