Vintage St. Patrick's Day Greeting Card, Woman in Green

The proportions of that shamrock bouquet are absolutely comical—this woman is hoisting greenery overhead like she just won it in a bar fight, while a potted shamrock plant and a wall calendar helpfully remind you it is, in fact, March 17th, as though you might forget which holiday this 'Souvenir' card is for. The golden harp-and-shamrock emblem pinned to the upper corner adds a touch of official nationalism to what is otherwise a woman aggressively flourishing botanicals with the energy of someone who has made shamrocks her entire personality. Nothing says 'festive Irish heritage' like a corset-clad woman in an enormous green dress, and the embossed lace border frames the whole scene with Victorian respectability, which is doing a lot of heavy lifting given that this woman's entire look screams 'I will fight you about Ireland.'