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Copy of Green Gander Don King Illustration 

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The Green Gander was a men-owned, campus humor magazine issued from 1915 to 1960 in Ames, Iowa. This 1920 issue contained a handful of vibrant, eye-catching section covers and illustrations. One illustration that caught my eye was an illustration of a woman in a chair with a patterned background. It contains a jingle at the bottom stating “There's sox for men and sox for wimmen, But it ain't so much the sox as what comes with-in 'em”. 

 

Illustrated by Don King, the illustration is stating that socks don't matter, the people who wear them is what matters. I think this modernist design represents stylistic illustration styles from this period as well as the depiction of women. 

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