DescriptionThe Trailing Skirt, Death Loves a Shining Mark.jpg
English: "The Trailing Skirt - Death Loves a Shining Mark." American satirical cartoon featuring the Grim Reaper following a maid brushing off a fashionable trailing skirt. The skirt, hung on a rack, is shown as a carrier of germs and microbes, including those causing typhoid fever, consumption, influenza. First published in Puck, August 8, 1900.
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American satirical cartoon against trailing skirts as vectors of disease. First published in Puck, August 8, 1900
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The Trailing Skirt - Death Loves a Shining Mark; American satirical cartoon taking part in the crusade against the trailing skirt, which was the latest fashion among New York City women in the early 20th century, but believed by its critics to pick up and spread deadly diseases by trailing along the sidewalks, Puck Magazine, c. 1901 | Artist: EHRHART, Samuel D. (1862-1920) | Photo Credit: The Art Archive / Art Resource, NY