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Caption continues: Head Cutter. "We're cutting it very fine, Madam - you must either diet yourself, or submit to tight lacing."
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for a political cartoon for publication in the London weekly, The National news, 1917.
Signed and dated at upper left, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1917"; on verso in pen, "Cutting the Coat According to the Cloth. Head Cutter. "We're cutting it very fine, Madam - you must either diet yourself, or submit to tight lacing."; in blue pencil, "National News," followed by specifications for the printer.
Drawing shows Britannia, with helmet and shield, standing in a tailor's shop where she is being fitted by Food Controller Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport, who appears in the likeness of a tailor; on either side of them stand corseted mannequins labeled "Dernier cri," and, "The Devonport Waist."