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Monday, March 26, 2012

Mad Men party in Instagrams

I've been dead set on the idea of having a Mad Men party for a while now. I wanted to invite people to get dressed up, and I wanted to make a slew of kitschy, retro food. I knew that the looooooong-anticipate season 5 premiere was a thing worth celebrating, so I invited friends to come over Saturday night ("Premiere Eve") to revisit the season 4 finale in preparation.

I did have fun planning the menu, and I got more use out of the vintage mold I use for cranberry sauce. I started cooking early in the day with an apron thrown over my slip; I felt very '60s housewife-y. There was punch and a small drink-making station, and everyone dressed up. I hung up vintage ads and decorated the table with a typewriter and polaroid camera from the period. I had a lot of fun planning, and I think we all had a great time celebrating.

If you feel inspired, and want to have your own Mad Men party, might I suggest the season finale as a good time. Though, it's really always a good time to throw on a vintage dress and start wrapping chicken livers in bacon.

Edit: More fun vintagy-ness from cool bloggers at IFB's most recent Project, "Vintage Vixens."

Apron over slip: getting ready for our Mad Men party

I hung up vintage ads around our place. #MadMenParty

Ryan scrugs, "Why not eat plain wonder bread? It's the sixties." #madmenparty

Drink station with instruction cards for vodka gimlets and Cuba libres #madmenparty

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

What I wore today 08/16/2011 (jockey-chic)

I've been re-watching old Mad Men episodes on Netflix recently, and I've been quite inspired by Betty's incredible jockey-chic riding outfits.

[photo credits: lolawashername.blogspot.com and 5thjoy.wordpress.com]

I've played around with riding-inspired outfits before, and, when the weather gets colder, I definitely want to do something with boots and a scarf tucked into a crew-neck sweater. But, for now, here's my warm-weather version of the look.

Silk scarf - some shop on the Boulevard Saint Michel

Kelly

Appliqued camisole - thrifted

Riding pants - gap

Green canvass lace-ups - Big Buddha, TJ Maxx

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Do you like my vintage '70s Twitter camisole? Gosh, remember how big Twitter was back in the '70s? Here are some of my favorite historic tweets from that time...

@AverageGuy: Bell bottoms are the best pants ever. These are NEVER going out of style!

@Comedian: Just bought a videocassette recorder and wrote what I believe is the first of many jokes about not being able to program it. Also, I may have just invented stand-up comedy.

@Gamer: Wow, Pong is the best thing ever, am I right? #lowexpectations

@Nixon: So, I've decided to delete my Twitter account. ￥-_-￥ Check out my YouTube page for a rap video explaining why. #watergate

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What I wore today: 08/02/2011 (Gold)

This is what I'm wearing to perform with my sketch comedy group, Underbelly, tonight. When my mom saw me earlier, she said, "Are you going to put some clothes on? That looks like a slip." I couldn't even be offended, because I was just laughing inside about how much what she said reminded me of this classic scene from Clueless.

I usually don't like to be so matchy-matchy with accessories, but I just couldn't help piling on the gold today. Do you like my pen necklace? It's just like Joan's from Mad Men.

Vintage gold belt

Vintage gold clutch (also seen here at my brother's wedding)

Vintage gold pen necklace

Skull bracelets - my mom brought me from Mexico

Hand of Fatima bracelet - Street vender in Jerusalem

Quilted flats with gold studs (seen many times, from most recent to least: here, here, here, here, here)

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

What I wore today: 07/13/2011

I bought this dress a while back, inspired by Joan from Mad Men and her jewel tone wiggle dresses. For a work conference I'm going to today, I decided to pair it with a yellow belt I just bought at Anthropologie (Full disclosure: it was on sale, so I bought a green one and a pink one too. I may have a problem.) in order to partake int he color blocking trend that I'm so admiring of, though I have trouble being bold with color sometimes. Then, I noticed that the colors perfectly complemented my new Pucci scarf. Excellent. The cardigan makes the look work appropriate, though it's so hot outside that I will be wearing it as little as possible. Without the cardigan, the whole thing is a bit more stewardess than young urban professional, and I'm totally okay with that. :)

Dress: The Limited

Cardigan: TJ Maxx

Belt: Anthropologie

Scarf: Emilio Pucci, The Outnet

Shoes: Madden Girl, TJ Maxx

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Get the look: Joan from Mad Men

If you enjoyed the inclusion of Joan's Christmas dress in the post about holiday dresses and past posts about Mad Men style, then you might be interested in seeing this set I made on Polyvore. (I even found a vintage-inspired pen necklace.) She's such an inspiration!