material world

April 30, 2012 in she's got the look

Throughout the years, I have amassed a sizeable of a collection of vintage fabric. In fact, sometimes I’ll buy a totally unwearable dress just because the fabric it’s made of
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mad men style ~ david weidman

April 25, 2012 in good reads, home style, just drawn that way

A few Mad Men episodes ago, while Peggy was in her office, I noticed this really fab daisy screen print hanging up behind her desk. It looked very familiar to
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buy back a bomb

April 20, 2012 in she's got the look

From 1964 to 1973, Laos, a small country just west of Vietnam, was feeling the effects of the big war next door by suffering through a “Secret War” within its
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flashback ’84 ~ dick clark & madonna

April 18, 2012 in stop look & listen

January 14th, 1984 Dick Clark: “We are a couple of weeks into the new year, what do you hope will happen, not only in 1984 but for the rest of
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mad men style ~ give it a whirl

April 18, 2012 in costume party

“Megan is the new fashion-forward girl in the office” according to Janie Bryant and so far on this season of Mad Men season 5, she’s proven to be just that.
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the yardbirds: isn’t it iconic?

April 17, 2012 in sharp-dressed men, stop look & listen

The Yardbirds in Blow-Up Blow-Up is often hailed as the quintessential Swinging London movie. Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 masterpiece centers around a fashion photographer (played by David Hemmings) who discovers
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the fantastic mr. fish

April 16, 2012 in sharp-dressed men

Most famous for outfitting David Bowie and Mick Jagger in dresses, Michael Fish was a 60′s-70′s British designer who is often credited with leading the “Peacock Revolution” in men’s fashion.
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mad men style ~ one of the boys

April 11, 2012 in costume party

“Do you think I act like a man?” That is the question that Peggy drunkenly, yet seriously, posed to Dawn as the two sat shooting the shit over a few
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Mad Men Style ~ The New Jew Review

April 4, 2012 in costume party, sharp-dressed men

Michael Ginsberg is my new favorite character on