Life, 1923-09-13 · page 10 of 36
Life — September 13, 1923 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page combines beauty advice with fashion satire for different body types. The top article by Rose Lief addresses women with underdeveloped knuckles, offering exercises to improve them—reflecting early 20th-century beauty standards that valued perfectly rounded knuckles as an aesthetic requirement. The bottom two cartoons mock fashion and body consciousness. Both feature heavyset women: the left illustration shows a woman in striped clothing with a corset advertisement (Bethlehem Steel corsets), satirizing the fashion industry's promise to reshape bodies. The right cartoon depicts a woman in sports attire, mocking how athletic wear claims to flatter unfashionable figures. Together, these images satirize the fashion industry's exploitation of women's insecurities and unrealistic body standards through corsetry and specialized clothing.
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LIFE THE DRESSING TABLE INTIME LOVELY KNUCKLES y . ea z Tore and HOW to GROW THEM By ROSE LIEF O woman can account her- self truly beautiful unless her knuckles are perfectly rounded. If yours are insignificant-looking, do not despair. They can be devel- oped. By exercising them night and morning and snapping them constar ily between times you, too, can have knuckles that knuck. And when the glad moment arrives and He slips the engagement circlet upon your finger, you will have blissful assurance that it cannot be removed. There is sonie- thing to guard it. See that hump! He is hooked for life. A little knuckle is a dangerous thing. Maribel Rabies, the _screen-star, celebrated for the shapeliness of lier knuckles, says: “I attribute my won- derful success in the silent d hinges. Howev sel ssed I may be by villainy, I never knuckle | sen Ee r ese - ~ under. Milady’s little secrets, to which she devotes hours of every “So be persevering, and your hopes day. These quaint appointments, which give glow and will be realized to the full. You will fragrance, bespeak the true booseoir achieve the summum bonum.’ FOR SPORTS AND STOUTS For the full-fashioned woman whose career is Sport demands a striking costume de chasse. in the home there is something substantial about This overblouse of mouche-color Jersey Netting this creation which Bouillon calls “Bauf a4 la flaps freely down over a tanglefoot skirt deco- Mode.” Corsets by Bethlehem Steel. rated with button ganglia and dingbats comicbooks.com