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[The "sic-transit" gown, for a presidential candidate (should he contemplate "retiring from the world")]
Summary
Caricature of former President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), dressed in a nun's habit and kneeling before an altar.
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Signed, lower left: -O.C.-.
Title from Life.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1539)
One of several drawings that accompanied a satirical article entitled, "Style Rules the World: Life's Fashion Reform League Now Has Control of American Women Better Be One of Us Before you Grow Any Older." The article promoted a fictitious school for style-conscious people. The inscription on the altar, "Ora Pro Taftis" ("Pray for Taft"), is a comment on Roosevelt's intention to run against incumbent President William Howard Taft, whom he had practically hand-picked as his replacement four years before.
Published in: Life, May 2, 1912.
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