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"In the dim and speculative future"

"In the dim and speculative future"

THIS YEAR–
NEXT YEAR–
SOMETIME–
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[Image: Postcard designed by Gladys Letcher of the Suffrage Atelier, contains an illustration of Prime Minister Asquith delaying the vote for woman's suffrage.

The…

Tags: Basket, British, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Flowers, Future, Gender Roles, Man, Middle class, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Sundial

"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

"Just by way of a Change": 3

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[Image: A fashionably dressed woman with an up-do decorated with a black hair bow is on her knees proposing to a man. He is dressed in a black suit and seated in a red, upholstered chair. His pose is feminized, with a hand at his mouth and the…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Chair, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, Flowers, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Man, Masculinized woman, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, PRIVATE, Romance, Unappealing, Woman

"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

"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"

"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"
"I'm going a-voting, Sir," she said.
"And who shall you vote for, my pretty Maid?"
That Duck in plus fours, kind sir," she said.

[Image: Illustrator Donald McGill's postcards proved hugely popular with…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Briefcase, British, EMOTIONS, Flapper, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Male politician, Man, Politician, PUBLIC, Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act, Surprise, Surprised Man, Umbrella, Voting, Woman

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"In the dim and speculative future"

"Just by way of a Change": 1

"Just by way of a Change": 3

"Just by way of a Change": 4

"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"

A Suffrage Problem

Ah' go lay an Egg

Ain't it lovely to be married?

Alimonially Inclined

Be My Valentine! Votes for Skirts