Calaveras of the Cockroach | Calaveras de La Cucaracha
The New Calavera of the Servant Class | La Nueva Calavera del Morrongo
Detail from | Detalle de: El panteón de las pelonas, 1924
The Graveyard of the Short-Haired Women | El panteón de las pelonas
José Guadalupe Posada & Anonymous (illustrators) | Anónimo (ilustradores)
Anonymous (author) | Anónimo (autor)
El panteón de las pelonas
[Ciudad de] México: Tipografía de la Testamentaria de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1924
In this 1924 broadside La Catrina illustrates a rather sexist satirical love poem that ridicules one of the most transgressive fashion statements of the times: short hairstyles for women. Addressing the women, the speaker laments: “Your determination to enjoy yourselves / And to cut your hair, / Made your souls pass / From Earth to heaven. / Your being lost its charm . . . / And you lost therefore / The joys of your love.”
En esta hoja volante de 1924 La Catrina ilustra versos satíricos y sexistas que se burlan del cabello corto de las mujeres, una de las modas más transgresoras de esa época. “Vuestro empeño por gozar / Y por cortaros el pelo, / Hizo vuestra alma pasar / De la tierra para el cielo. / Vuestro ser perdió su encanto . . . / Y perdisteis por lo tanto / Los goces de vuestro amor.”
: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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