Glamour Girl
Well, after waiting all these long months and pining for period detail, Glamour Girl finally got her belle époque fix (though the époque in question is admittedly of a later vintage)—the premiere of Season 3 of the fab AMC series Mad Men.
At last! Elegance, precision, subtlety, nuance, beauty, gams, and glamour for 47 minutes every week! I can rest my weary eyes from the daily onslaught of baggy T-shirts, dumpy shorts, pot-belly-stickouts, unkempt hair, and tramp stamps that are these modern United States, and go back to a time when women looked like this:
And men looked like this:
And they all had the same flaws, foibles, and fumbles as in any era!
If you’re a fan, you’ve probably already scoured the hundreds of articles written about the series. If not, you can take a look at the current issue of New York Magazine, which has oodles of articles and assessments about this breakout, now-iconic show. The AMC website, of course, also has tons of information, though none better than this behind-the-scenes fashion file. And let’s not forget the latest issue of Vanity Fair.
As if all that weren’t enough to set the most vintage-loving hearts aflutter, now Janie Bryant, the crackerjack costumer designer for the series, is coming out with a clothing line all her own (for souls too timid to dip into the rich vaults of vintage on eBay). The question is, Are you a Betty or a Joan?
For those of us (men and women) who thrill to the sight (for different reasons) of a buxom, highly curvaceous actress playing a major role on screen for the first time in, oh, about a hundred years, here’s an interview with Christina Hendricks, complete with photos.
There are so many more links I could offer, but you all have Google handy. Besides, I just want to sit in my Eames chair, cross my stiletto-tipped legs, and knock back a cold martini. (No cigarettes, though. That’s a period detail too far.)
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