Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Novembre 1931, No. 135, 12e Année, p. 18 1931

This fashion plate appeared in a 1931 issue of “Art-Goût-Beauté,” a journal that epitomized the elegance of its time. Dominating the scene, the image presents women adorned in the latest sporting attire. The golf club, central to the composition, signals leisure and modernity—a symbol of the era’s shifting social mores, as women increasingly occupied spaces previously reserved for men. The gesture of swinging a golf club, however, echoes across time. Consider the dynamic poses in ancient Greek art, where athletes display a similar kinetic energy. This pursuit of sporting grace finds resonance even earlier, when we see the depiction of pharaohs wielding ceremonial maces—a symbol of power, transformed in the modern context into a symbol of leisure. There is an almost subconscious desire to emulate those who came before us, to grasp the essence of a movement frozen in time. It’s this tension between the past and present that gives such images their lasting appeal, forever engaging us in a visual dialogue across centuries.