![]() ![]() I grew too fast, and out of proportion to “off the rack” items, making alterations as they were being made a common thing. That was the year also of the infiltration of the bell bottoms, mini skirts and also the new hot pants formals for Prom! It surely created new challenges in outfitting daughters for school! My wardrobe was mostly made at home, but creatively, by my mother. (It was an odd feeling to be 14 and going to school with older girls already sporting engagement and/or wedding bands to be sure!) High Schools picked up at 8th grade, dropping us all on our collective backsides in schools populated with 18 year old Seniors! Some of the girls were engaged, or already married to young servicemen from our heavily-saturated-with-military area of southeastern Virginia, off fighting in Viet Nam, and part of the “peace treaty” they made with their parents was that the girls, with no husbands to actually look after, would live at home and finish school. I was going to a 7 year elementary school back then, which was the norm in our area, so 7th graders were “King of the Hill” back then. I was the envy of many, who showed up with their TV show-themed items, or just the solid color stuff. My art-teacher Mom fitted me out for 7th grade in 1969 with some very cool Peter Max themed notebooks, a 3 ring binder and the requisite quintessential Bookbag. The question is will Don do his own thing or can papa get a brand new bag?Ĭopyright (©) 20014 Sally Edelstein All Rights ReservedĬan Betty Draper Tune in to the Now Generation ![]() Dick Nixon started the decade in bitter defeat, only to end it in triumph as President of the United States. When a casually dressed Pete sporting full on sideburns greets a suited up Don in LA in this seasons opening episode, a taken aback Don tells the formally buttoned up Pete “You not only look like a hippie you talk like one.”Ĭan Don Draper – nee Dick Whitman – once again remake himself in California, the perfect place for reinvention and experimentation? Retro Reinvention – New and Improved?įor sheer inspiration Don need look only to that quintessential Californian Richard Nixon.ĭick Whitman wasn’t the only one to transform himself. Laid back California was the very antithesis of NY. But by 1969 that excitement had moved west to California. The Mad Men New York City of 1960 was the epitome of sophistication and glamor. Nothing demonstrated the changes of the decade than the rise of sunny California in the late 1960’s and the decline of increasingly dangerous NYC. The buttoned down world of 1960 NY stands in sharp contrast to California dreaming of 1969 (L) Vintage Fashion photo 1960 NYC (R) Max Factor Ad 1969 California Sun Glosses ![]()
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