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"Just by way of a Change": 4

[Image: Two fashionably dressed women are leaning on a bar, drinking alcoholic beverages. A waiter is polishing a martini shaker with a cloth and looking down his nose at the women. The bar is elegantly decorated and there is red carpet. The…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Alcohol, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bar, British, CLASS, Drinking, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, Middle class, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Restaurant, Smoking, Woman, Working class, Working man

"Just by way of a Change": 1

[Image: At the top of the postcard a headline reads, "Just by way of a Change." Below that a fashionably dressed woman in a hat is cycling. In the attached wicker-riding carriage is an elegantly dressed man smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bicycle, Bicycling, British, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, Shoes, Smoking, TRANSPORT, Unappealing, Woman

HI MISS! YER TROWSIS IS A-COMING DOWN.

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Assertive, Bloomers, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, gender, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Inferiority, new woman, PUBLIC, Umbrella, Unfashionable, walking, Woman, Working class

Happy Easter

[Image: On the right side of this horizontal postcard is a young woman in a ruffled dress, white stockings, black dress shoes and an Easter bonnet with flowing ribbons. She is carrying a hatbox in her right hand (to denote that the bonnet is new),…

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, American, Chick, Chicken, Duck, Easter, FASHION, Feminine woman, Hen, HOLIDAYS, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER: 2

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN
THING AFTER ANOTHER

[Image: At the top of this vertical postcard is a bold headline that reads, "LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER" in block, bold, red font. Under the healine is a man on the viewers left who is…

Tags: American, Angry, Angry man, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Couple, Domineering woman, EMOTIONS, Feminine woman, Gender Roles, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Physical violence, PRIVATE, VIOLENCE, Wife, without children, Woman