Posted on 05/15/2015 1:04:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The final episode of AMCs Mad Men this Sunday heralds the end of a TV era. The shows seven seasons covered the turbulent decade from 1960 until 1970, dramatizing changing styles and social mores in the lives of Mad Men and women, or professionals in the Madison Avenue advertising industry.
For those who arent regular watchers: A lot of the shows male characters spent their time chasing young women around the office and a lot of the female characters spent their time trying to land or keep a husband.
Critics have consistently lauded the series, not just for its entertainment value but also for exposing the dark underbelly of a prosperous, conservative era.
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You can easily find commentary on that from the time that it happened. Eisenhower wore a hat. John Kennedy, inaugurated on a bitterly cold morning in January 1961, didnt."
Interesting...I didn't know that.
True, the shoes in the middle are bad, and they make her knees really stand out.
I had to look again...yep, you're right.
That heaviness at the bottom throws everything out of perspective...for me, at least.
Well hat makers at the time believed it because American men stopped wearing hats in the early ‘60s. But here’s another interesting take:
I definitely agree with that! As cars got “longer, lower, wider”, hats got more difficult to deal with. Men switched to baseball or driving caps unless it was a more formal occasion. I saw this with my grandfather.
Yowza. I am quite taken with options one and two.
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