{"id":28945,"date":"2015-04-06T03:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=28945"},"modified":"2015-04-06T03:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:29:23","slug":"mad-men-and-gladiators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/mad-men-and-gladiators\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Men and Gladiators"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title of this post refers to Mad Men<\/em><\/a> and sandals, not Mad Men<\/em> and the “gladiators in suits<\/a>” populating Scandal<\/em><\/a>. I admit that I have only seen one episode of Scandal<\/em>, but I’ll have time to catch up now that MrB and I have gotten 72 episodes of Mad Men<\/em> out of the way. We were so woefully behind that we had to spend the two weeks watching seasons 2 through 7A to be ready for last night’s final season premiere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We averaged a little more than five episodes of Mad Men<\/em> a night, causing me to have many Mad Me<\/em>n-related dreams, some of which were Bert-Cooper-singing pleasant while others were falling-from-a-building disturbing. During my waking hours, I developed an intense appreciation for the work of costume designer Janie Bryant<\/a>. I definitely want to go to the Museum of the Moving Image <\/a>to see the clothes in person. I’m sure the gladiator sandals I spotted in season 6, episode 10<\/a> won’t be there because they weren’t worn by anyone important, but at least I got a picture of them on-screen.<\/p>\n

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Ignore the hookah — check out the foreground.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mad Men<\/em>‘s sixth season took place between December 1967 and November 1968, which was exactly the right time for knee-high gladiators. A famous photo of beautiful, doomed socialite Talith Getty wearing a pair was taken in June 1968.<\/p>\n

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