{"id":423,"date":"2015-04-08T03:27:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-04-08T03:27:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:27:27","slug":"mad-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Mad about Mad Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you realize this is the LAST season of Mad Men?<a title=\"McCalls\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mccall.com\/?p=1407&amp;subscribe=invalid_email#blog_subscription-2\"> McCalls <\/a>knows and are preparing for us to go mad over retro patterns. I love retro and mod clothing. \u00a0I have a few patterns in my own collection. \u00a0A quick search on <a title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/lucyssewinglab\/mad-men-fashion-inspiration\/\">Pinterest<\/a> reveals a frenzy! \u00a0Even before I did a little searching for this blog I have been obsessed with the whole look of Mad Men. \u00a0I just did not realize until I plugged those words into Pinterest how popular the show is. \u00a0You see, I just don&#8217;t get out much anymore. \u00a0lol \u00a0I love the looks, it reminds me of childhood. \u00a0That&#8217;s how the grown ups dressed. \u00a0With that in mind, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m grown up enough to don these looks. \u00a0Admit it, some of those clothes are pretty scandalous. Maybe it&#8217;s fashion that created the free love era and not free love that created fashion?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-10.04.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-425\" src=\"http:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-10.04.25-PM-200x76.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-07 at 10.04.25 PM\" width=\"200\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Mad Style: Feminine patterns and fabrics\u2014a touch of lace, a sweet bow on a blouse, or a flowy dress\u2014keep your wardrobe classic and effortlessly pretty. The trick to not looking too girlish or 1950s housewife is to keep the shape of each piece modern (try a structured blazer or pencil skirt) or to add an alluring touch: Channel Joan\u2019s va-va-voom appeal with ladylike fabrics tucked into body-hugging shapes&#8221; a quote from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/mad-style-5-fashion-lessons-from-mad-men\">The Muse<\/a>. And they were kind enough to add pictures in their story. \u00a0It&#8217;s not hard to recreate those looks, is it? Not when the big pattern companies are rereleasing their vintage patterns. \u00a0That makes it pretty easy to become a Mad Man fashionista.<\/p>\n<p>Butterick Patterns has a new Retro section. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/butterick.mccall.com\/b4790-products-6089.php?page_id=371\">B4790 <\/a>is one of those patterns, a wrap dress.<a href=\"http:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-10.14.44-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-426\" src=\"http:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-10.14.44-PM-163x200.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-07 at 10.14.44 PM\" width=\"163\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>I think this looks like something Betty Draper would wear. I might wear it too, if I made it. I&#8217;m sure this isn&#8217;t the last you&#8217;ll hear of Mad Men until the season ends. I&#8217;m sure this blog will be mentioning it again, soon. \u00a0I&#8217;ll leave you with this added inspiration\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-10.22.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-427\" src=\"http:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-10.22.33-PM-149x200.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-07 at 10.22.33 PM\" width=\"149\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you realize this is the LAST season of Mad Men? McCalls knows and are preparing for us to go mad over retro patterns. I love retro and mod clothing. \u00a0I have a few patterns in my own collection. \u00a0A quick search on Pinterest reveals a frenzy! \u00a0Even before I did a little searching for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,42,9],"tags":[73,131,132,133,134],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyssewinglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}