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Life Magazine – September 8, 1910 (# 1454) – Women’s Fashion Number
$48.00
Magazine Condition : Good
1 in stock
Description
Cover : Woman in lovely diaphanous gown, great art by Henry Hutt.
– WOMAN’S FASHION NUMBER (much on style-related humor).
– Full page color ads for Oldsmobile cars (art by William Harden Foster), Victor Victrola (A corner of the music room in the White house).
– Full page ads for Locomobile (full page photo), Metropolitan magazine (half page : R U A FAN … “texting” in 1910), Packard Motor Trucks (with art of Wabash and Adams Pianos and Organs truck), Sturtevant electric ventilating sets (fans for telephone booth), Hupmobile (Hupp Motor Car, blue).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (doctors discussing a Duke, their patient, as he woes Miss Incum), George Barratt (A maiden Lady’s romance)
– Two page centerspread art by Wm. H. Walker, “Custom House Vaudeville,” naked people watching a show as custom’s officials go through their clothes and trunks.
– Very apt and cute comparison of fashion in 1810 (waistline just below bust) to 1910 (waistline at ankles, hobble skirts), by L. B.
– Some current events include : Relations of Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft, Aeroplanes, Airplanes and aviation, The new football rules are very gentle and urbane.
– “One of the attractions of the aeroplane at this stage is its impulsiveness. No one can tell what it will do. Every flight is something of a gamble, and there are so few lawful gambles left that a new one is appreciated.”
– And so much more! Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!
