Brrrrr. Looking Our Best (LOB) is way too cold to rustle up
much enthusiasm over new season collections. Gazing at rails of sleeveless blouses
and bum-freezing dresses feels ridiculous while shuffling around the stores
clad in full Inuit rigout topped with a domestic water tank lagging jacket. The calendar says Spring, but it’s still November on LOB’s
radar.
But hello! Here are words to bring warmth to LOB’s chilly heart: Mad Men Season 6 returns to our telly screens
on 10th April. To paraphrase Shelley, if Mad Men comes, can Spring be far behind? (This blog is so classy,
you even get poetic references thrown in).
and it remains one of the most visited works in Tate Britain. Clark was killed by his gay ex-lover in 1996, but now the Designers at Debenhams range includes a new collection this season bearing the iconic Ossie Clark London label, designed by Nic Georgiou. The perfect excuse, then, to indulge in nostalgia for sixties style and pick looks from the current label for those Mad Men women.
Joanie may now be the all-woman partner in the all-male management
world of SCDP, but something tells us she won’t be donning the pin striped
suiting anytime soon. This black and orange print dress, being bias cut, easily
accommodates womanly curves. As Celia Birtwell once said “Women felt pretty (in
Ossie’s designs). His dresses were never vulgar or rude.” Perfect for our Joanie, then.
We really hope that desperate housewife Betty has stopped
gorging on the leftovers, forsaken the nylon housecoat, and headed to the nearest fashion boutique
instead. This dreamy blue and grey printed chiffon maxi dress with bell sleeves
could catch former hubby Don’s roving eye again.
Love her or loathe her, aspiring thespian Megan and
chanteuse of the cringing Zou Bisou Bisou, has been the most fashion-forward of the Mad
Men women so far.
Channelling the military styles favoured by the King’s Road set
in this royal blue Belsize jacket and print Oxford trousers could be right up
the rebellious Mrs Draper’s street.
Of course Peggy is the real creative force behind SCDP’s
best campaigns, and that has finally been recognised by a rival agency.
As
trouser suits became a strong trend in the sixties, she could look the business
in this black scalloped edge Kensington jacket and matching trousers - and without a backward glance to Pete and his
Sugarberry Hams and Secore Laxatives.
All clothes from Ossie Clark London at Debenhams
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