I have posted this image here on Saint Valentine's Days in the past. I don't recall where I found the image, nor do I recall its history. I don't believe it's a fake, rather I think it's a genuine vintage greeting card.
That being said, what is the context of the card's message? My guess it was related to women's suffrage.
During that era, there was a genuine fear among males that if women got the vote it was the beginning of the end of the patriarchy. That fear was reflected in ephemera of the era.
The big question on everybody's mind 100 years ago was asked by this anti-suffrage postcard.
Another postcard answered the question.
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| Wearing Bebe (Source: Bebe) |
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| Faye's "bird" femulation |
It's 100 years on from some women first getting the vote over here, women now almost universally wear trousers yet the patriarchy is still going strong, of course some are happier about that than others of us.
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