I am very tired. I had a couple of procedures today. So after this, I’m going to sleep.
Here is a link to a slideshow of photos from the New York Times Magazine article everyone’s buzzing about.
Fabulous photo is below the fold.
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June 20, 2008 at 2:46 pm
That is a gorgeous picture. And it’s amazing how much older Sal looks now: I know that they’re adding grey to his hair (or perhaps not covering up natural grey, I don’t know), but I think they’ve changed his makeup too.
June 20, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Is anyone going to mention the part where Kartheiser isn’t wearing pants?
June 20, 2008 at 3:22 pm
It’s a tennis outfit! And what about Don at the office in a sweater?
June 20, 2008 at 3:24 pm
As we were watching TV recently, my friend started complaining about how much she hated men in those short-short distance runner shorts (I’m not a big fan, either).
I think it came up because the TV had just shown some basketball players from the 70’s – very short shorts compared to these days.
From that photo, it looks like Kartheiser is wearing some sort of tennis outfit. Perhaps soon I’ll have visual material with which to torment my friend going all the way back to 60’s fashion!
June 20, 2008 at 3:30 pm
It is probably a tennis outfit. My first thought was tighty whiteys. Which made my brain hurt.
June 20, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Now, see? I like the short shorts. I love the old-fashioned tennis shorts and basketball uniforms. I hate the long knicker-like pedal pushers men wear today. I want to see some thigh, damnit.
June 20, 2008 at 5:02 pm
hullaballoo – me, I like a happy medium. To my eye the super long shorts looks ridiculous, and the super short shorts look *gehg!*
Of course, looking back at those old photos and TV footage, context plays a big role. The 70’s basketball shorts are OK paired with a 70’s style Afro or longer style White Boy hair. Nowadays basketball hair styles are all over the place between short and long, so medium shorts should be the official mandate. : )
I can live with the tennis shorts of the 70’s (see Bjorn Borg here”, but those 60’s shorts Pete Campbell is wearing are too much! Perhaps it’s just the way he’s standing crouched, and they’re really not as bad as they appear.
June 20, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Don is looking very Gene Kelly there.
Hey, am I the only person who didn’t know Marge is the woman from the Progressive commercials?
June 20, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Tennis and Mad Men together? My hear is all a twitter. Even if it is over Pete Campbell…
June 20, 2008 at 9:48 pm
God how I LOVED watching basketball in the 70s. Yum.
June 20, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Oh, god, yes, Deborah. Long men in short shorts. What could be better? And that picture of Bjorn Borg that Oaktown linked? Mmm, mmmm, mmm. I love me some 70s sports figures!
June 20, 2008 at 10:34 pm
hope you’re feeling better, Roberta, and got some rest. glad all’s well with the plumbing.
June 20, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Deborah…Ha!
And you’re very welcome, hullaballoo : )
Taking about 70’s sports star crushes? Oh yeah, I got a list.
The 70’s basketball shorts were OK. It’s actually the men’s marathon running shorts that my friend hates so much (functional perhaps, but not fashionable). What had set off the topic was seeing the basketball shorts.
In any event, it’s gonna be interesting to see how Pete Campbell looks in those period tennis shorts when he’s not squatting like he’s gonna lay an egg.
June 21, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Can I just say, and I have to leave my feminist card at the door for this, that photo above is FANTASTIC. In the artistic sense it’s simply beautiful–the composition of the shot, the shapes, the lines, the colors, the play with textures, light and shadow–it’s all stunning. It also tells a great story and is so evocative of Mad Men. And props to the fellas for thinking outside the box–wanting to make passes at the woman in glasses. She seems to be getting the bulk of their leers. Yay objectification of women! 😉
Can I have my feminist card back now?
June 21, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I haven’t read the article yet, but I saw the picture that is the cover, and I was horrified. Whoever designed the cover messed up in a big way. The font is midfities and the picture looks like something from a forties pulp novel. It couldn’t have looked less like the time period if they tried.
However, the pictures in the slide show were fantastic. I fantasize about getting to walk around the set, and looking through all the issues of Home and Garden that they use for reference. They even researched what kinds of pens were period appropaite.