The TV series “Mad
Men” has absorbed Partner and me for about a year now. We’re all caught up through
Season Six. Each season has covered a year of the 1960s (more or less), so we’re up to the end
of 1968. We’ve seen the assassination of two Kennedys, the murder of
Martin Luther King, the Love Generation, et cetera.
The show's writing is excellent, as is the acting (by people like Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss and John
Slattery and Robert
Morse).
But, as with a lot of series set in the past, it’s possible
to watch this show for the clothes and the sets and the accessories.
Bugles,
for example. When I saw a minor character eating Bugles, I remembered when
Bugles were new (in the mid-1960s), and I was amused and charmed, and
astonished at the writers’ acumen at knowing that the product was introduced
(with great fanfare) in the mid-1960s.
Also: in “Mad Men,” everyone drinks all the time. We see the
drinking accessories: really darling glasses, clear glass with silver rims.
My parents had glasses just like them, with a big “W”
monogram on them, in silver, naturally. I loved those glasses.
They recently showed up on a cutesy website: replicas of the
“silver-rimmed Mad Men drinking glasses,” $25 for two (not
including shipping).
Aha, I thinks, and went to eBay, and found two cute
authentic Dorothy Thorpe roly-poly drinking glasses for $18 (including
shipping).
They arrived the other day. They are perfect. They make me happy when I look at them, and they make a
nice tinkling sound when I put ice cubes in them.
And they remind me of my childhood.
