Anyone else feel like they need a couple Alka-Seltzers and aspirins this morning? Feeling disoriented? Lost your creative focus, energy and confidence? Tell you what. Let’s not think about it too much just this one time. Let’s put some soothing Sergio Mendes Bossa Nova on our...

Darlings, let’s all grab a subordinate, take them to a dark bar, and commit adultery this evening, shall we? Whiskey Blue, NYC Does this not look like a place where Roger or Don might  hang out? Grab a seat. We’ll set up the tab. Old Fashioneds are half-price during Happy Hour....

At least once a Mad Men season, we have a brief, mad, completely self-absorbed moment when we entertain the notion that costume designer Janie Bryant is deliberately fucking with the two of us. It passes after a time, but make no mistake, the color story we’ve been documenting all...

There we were, near the end of our second viewing of the episode and struggling mightily to marry Janet Jackson to Don Draper and come up with a joke about how privacy is his middle name and his last name, it is control, when a sleepy, cranky, thoroughly demoralized Pete snapped at his...

Darlings, the partners of Sterling Cooper Draper and Whatever The Hell Else They’re Calling Themselves Now kindly request that you order an Old Fashioned (or whatever Mother’s Day cocktail floats your boat), sit back, and let the late ’60s ennui and anxiety wash all over...

It really wasn’t until we looked at the clothes that we realized how much this entire episode was a response to an episode from last season. Okay, let’s get right to it, because we don’t think we ever received so many messages about a hairstyle before in our lives. Yes,...

Ah, there’s the Mad Men we’ve been missing. Believe it or not, even after we take the opportunity to write two different reviews of the show each week, we still find ourselves pondering the previous episode for days after. It seems to us that there’s been quite a bit of...

In an episode entitled “The Flood,” with a closing song of “Love is Blue,” maybe it’s not such a surprise that blue featured prominently throughout the episode. And this gives us an opportunity to float our new “blue and green motif” explanation....

It’s almost impossible to watch an episode like “The Flood” and not spend the entire time comparing it to season 3′s Mad Menization of the (first) Kennedy assassination, “The Grownups.” Aside from the rather obvious similarities in story, both episodes also...

We got embarrassingly excited when the episode opened with a shot of those green and blue room dividers, opening up to a tableau of men all dressed in blue and green. We noted in the season opener that Peggy was working a lot of blue and green and that it was reflected in the men she was...

In the world of Mad Men, some days you’re the ketchup bottle and some days you’re the french fry. And in this era of change and experimentation, it’s a time of great discovery for our characters. Joan is discovering that no matter what her title or how much money she brings...

Lots of stories being told through color this episode. And since it’s 1968, costume designer Janie Bryant had a whole lot of colors to work with. Curiously, she chose to focus mostly on two.   Standard middle class suburban wear. No one’s really wearing the latest anything in...

“Why can’t you just follow the rules?” That was Pete, helpfully pointing the audience toward tonight’s theme, but also voicing (in a highly conformist, Pete Campbell kind of way) their possible frustration and annoyance with Don and the prospect of watching yet another...

Onwards. Part one of this episode’s Mad Style is here and our initial episode review is here.   Once again, Sally stands out in a scene. In the living room, she was the only one in a brilliant blue, while the other women wore pink, red, or white. Here, she’s a focus-pulling...

…And we’re back. And boy, are we ever happy and excited to be back here. Before we get started, we’d like to be a little self-serving and obnoxious. When we first came up with the idea of Mad Style and wrote the first couple of entries, Tom said to Lorenzo, “I’m...

“Life will eventually end and someone else will get the bill.” “The whole life and death thing, it doesn’t bother me.” “What did you see when you died?” “My mom’s dead.” “I like the case. It looks like a coffin.” Well, one thing’s for sure: the fatalism that defines the show...

“In the Season 6 two-hour premiere ,’The Doorway,’ Don spearheads a new campaign, Roger gets some unsettling news, and Betty takes in a houseguest.” Ah, hilariously vague Mad Men episode descriptions. How we’ve missed your ridiculousness. Okay, we’re...

Designed exclusively by Banana Republic in collaboration with Mad Men® costume designer Janie Bryant — a modern take on the razor-sharp tailoring and polished silhouettes of 1960s style.     ][Photo Credit: Banana...

Mad Men Season 6 promotional images by Frank Ockenfels.     [Photo Credit: Frank...

We can’t even begin to tell you how much we love these photos. It’s never a good idea to try to divine meaning out of Mad Men’s promo shots each season. They’re too guarded about storylines to let anything slip through in the staging. The only thing we can glean is...

Since it appears to be Mad Men Day here on the site (and we all might as well get used to it, because there’s likely to be the usual avalanche of pre-season poledancing in the coming weeks), let’s check in on Miss Christina and see if there’s been any movement on her style...