Basket of Kisses

Here’s a nice piece in Life from a while back that Basketcases will enjoy. It’s vintage office photos, circa 1965, with Lizzie commenting on the photos. The interview took place before the Season 4 premiere. The photos are the juicy goodness, though. How much do I love this one: You can feel, smell, see that [...]

Since we won’t be seeing Mad Men until next year, I thought I’d share with you my random thoughts about some of my favorite MM styles and props.  Ah, what I wouldn’t give to be a walk-on– just to wear some bitchin’60’s fashion and pass through those fantastic 60’s sets! First, a Costume. Peggy wore [...]

One of the things that I’ve noticed about Peggy is that she doesn’t try to be professional by acting like a man. Maybe it’s Bobbie Barrett’s advice, or maybe it’s the absence of other advice. In the ’80s, when women in the workforce started being a reality and not an anomaly, the “power suit” came [...]

Last week we discussed great musical moments from Mad Men. Now imagine you’re a guest on the show. You’ve won a contest, or you’re just that cool, and there you are in your sixties drag (can be S5 or any prior season). What’s your theme music? I’m thinking this is a song that has never [...]

“Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.” — Winston Churchill SF Caramia’s observations about the importance of tobacco on the show and for SCDP made me think about the time back when I was a kid in which the trappings of adulthood were linked to bad, unhealthy, forbidden vices, such as [...]

So there I was at a craft fair, and I found Pete’s chip and dip. Pete’s exact chip and dip (or so I thought). I ended up bartering like crazy and purchasing a total of three: One is a tomato dip holder with three leaves, one has four leaves, and one is small, and the [...]

I was going to put this in the News Submission section and then thought better of it … Matt Weiner often points out that while the show is set in the early- (now mid-) Sixties, it really shows how the generations blend, and that hardly anything is exclusively “period” except for some objects like new [...]

In Blowing Smoke, Megan tells Don that Emerson Foote called in response to his anti-smoking letter in the New York Times. (Of course, Megan also told him that Senator Kennedy called, so who knows if it was really Foote?) Emerson Foote was an advertising legend; creator of a famous Lucky Strike(!) ad campaign and founder [...]

Hi Everybody! This is probably really old news now, but I was checking my 2nd e-mail account, (the one I never use or give to companies that I don’t really want to hear from) and as I was deleting out the 700 or so messages in the account, I came across one from October  9th [...]

Matt Weiner has often said that doing this show is like peeking in his parents’ bedroom.  It’s easy to see what he means.  The voyeuristic quality of Mad Men was established almost from the beginning of the series.  He’s being both literal and figurative – a bedroom is really a metaphor for a life, is [...]

One of the things I love about Mad Men are the clothes that are worn on the show.   So, I was thinking about where the characters would shop for their clothes?  I know Macy’s,  Abraham and Straus, Bergdorf Goodman, Gimbels to name a few, were some of the stores that were known then.  I [...]

I’ve been thinking about next season (I’m sure many of you have, too!) and wondering what the timeframe is. I feel there is a good chance that Matt Weiner could set Season 5 in 1967 (I have no inside information of course, this is just speculation). Either 1967 or else maybe Season 5 would start [...]

Okay Kids,  One last look into my crazy brain as I imagine Peggy in 1975. Well, Peggy (to paraphrase Greg Brady), is a really ‘groovy chick’ of the Seventies. She’s a real ‘happening’ kind of woman,  and wicked cool at that. Inspired by Gloria Steinem, Peggy joins the National Organization for Women and  helps Ms. [...]