Life — December 2, 1926 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Life Magazine Cover, December 1926 This is a **Christmas cover** for Life magazine's December 1926 issue (price 25 cents). The illustration depicts a fashionable woman in 1920s style—short dark hair, bare legs, and a fur-trimmed white dress—striking a theatrical pose. The text "There IS a Santa Claus" appears on the left side, while the bottom reads "CHRISTMAS." The satire likely mocks **1920s consumerism** and the commercialization of Christmas. The glamorous, somewhat frivolous figure embodies the "modern woman" of the Jazz Age, suggesting that for many Americans, Santa Claus now means shopping for fashionable goods rather than traditional religious observance. The cover captures Life's characteristic irreverent humor about contemporary American culture and materialism.