Mad Men costumes - discuss

[J. Cogburn]

Preachy and obvious ... an early scene has Don & family on a picnic. They get up to go and, with some flourish, toss their empty wrappers, bottles, and whatnot all over the field. As they leave, the camera pauses and surveys the scene for what seems like forever. Good God - enough! I get the point(s)!

Just a minor example, but that scene stuck with me. Others I recall are (happily) fading in my memory, but others in my office who've watched the show offer their own vignettes in the course of making the same criticism.

 

[Montauk]

How about:

"Sally! The clothes that were in that dry cleaning bag better not be wrinkled!"

An example of how a potentially funny scene was lost to clunky writing. Matt Weiner is a VERY VERY lucky man.

BUT I still look forward to Sunday night at 10:00.

 

[Beetleything]

Originally Posted by Montauk

How about:

"Sally! The clothes that were in that dry cleaning bag better not be wrinkled!"

An example of how a potentially funny scene was lost to clunky writing. Matt Weiner is a VERY VERY lucky man.

BUT I still look forward to Sunday night at 10:00.

uh ?

I think it highlighted how Betty is not a great parent - letting her kid run around with a plastic bag on her head- potentially very dangerous.....

 

[fwiffo]

Back to the costume?

Campbell is wearing a collar pin in yesterday's episode and an interesting shade of blue that I really didn't think would be something you'd wear shortly after new year's. Cosgrove also dresses like he hasn't changed either so I guess 1965 is not that big of a change for some people.

 

[TheButler]

Originally Posted by J. Cogburn

Preachy and obvious ... an early scene has Don & family on a picnic. They get up to go and, with some flourish, toss their empty wrappers, bottles, and whatnot all over the field. As they leave, the camera pauses and surveys the scene for what seems like forever. Good God - enough! I get the point(s)!
Reminds me of this commercial in Canada they used to have for the WWF

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[landshark]

The return of the pocket square in this most recent episode. Almost everyone had one at one point that I can remember.

 

[MBreinin]

Originally Posted by landshark

The return of the pocket square in this most recent episode. Almost everyone had one at one point that I can remember.

Not Don, nor Pete. Pete did have a club collar with collar bar going though.

Mike

 

[nexus]

Originally Posted by fwiffo

Back to the costume?

Campbell is wearing a collar pin in yesterday's episode and an interesting shade of blue that I really didn't think would be something you'd wear shortly after new year's. Cosgrove also dresses like he hasn't changed either so I guess 1965 is not that big of a change for some people.

Remember that Cosgrove has been bouncing around at a couple of firms. He's had some success but he gives the sense that he's a bit of a small wheel in a big machine, drifting along. It would be incongruous for him to look noticeably different.

 

[MrDaniels]

Interesting:

http://blogs.amctv.com/videos/player...d=589142816001

 

[MBreinin]

I have been looking hard for a vintage blue suit akin to the ones that Pete wears. Have yet to find anything.

Mike

 

[porcelain monkey]

Originally Posted by MrDaniels

Interesting:

http://blogs.amctv.com/videos/player...d=589142816001

I guess interesting in the word, although it's kind of distressing to see Janie Bryant shill for Banana Republic.

I had not heard the term "cloverleaf lapel" before, but I had noticed them on the show.

 

[BigPoppa]

I was recently an extra on Mad Men.
Thought ya'll might be interested:

 

[MrDaniels]

Originally Posted by BigPoppa

I was recently an extra on Mad Men.
Thought ya'll might be interested:

Cool...was your role "Guy Getting Lapdance From Betty and Joan?"

 

[VladimirS]

T-shirt with a shirt - that you think? Somewhere read - that it is a "mauvais ton". But Don - almost always in a T-shirt, but not in a vest.

 

[fwiffo]

Originally Posted by porcelain monkey

I guess interesting in the word, although it's kind of distressing to see Janie Bryant shill for Banana Republic.

She needs them for the male designs but I know she has her own brand now for the women's stuff.