Sunday, March 20, 2011

"Fast Fashion"

"But where do we go from here? Don Draper, trying to stay 'relevant' in a wide tie and floppy hair? Peggy Olsen, making her mark in a miniskirt and boots? Betty, with her cigarette, entertaining at home in palazzo pants? Roger, trying to keep pace with his younger wife, sporting a Nehru jacket? And perhaps Joan, rising in her managerial role, trading her figure-tracing dresses for a man-tailored trouser suit?
"Whatever the back story, the styles that emerged from the era's chaotic Youthquake—as it was termed—remain surprisingly durable."

Vincent Boucher in the Los Angeles Times wonders if Mad Men is about to embrace the clothing styles of the late 1960s.

And Amy Larocca, in a 2003 New York article, recalls the rise and fall of Paraphernalia, New York's first hip boutique.

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