I think Madmen is to some degree diluting their brand by partnering with Banana Republic. I like the clothes style too, but it's a little too Disney or Harry Potter Warner Bros marketing for me. Buy products which allow you to live in your fictional fantasy world! In the NYT piece they also refer to a Madmen inspired NYC trip. I love Madmen. The world is presents, however, is meant to be criticized, not emulated. Do the racist and misogynist attitudes come all inclusive in this travel package?
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Ladies, BR is owned by Gap Inc, and you know how Gap feels about their higher-end brands and ladies of the curvaceous persuasion. They'd NEVER do Joan dresses-- they can't even get curvy jeans right, why would they attempt dresses that curve in multiple places?
@Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter: You're so lucky. I have all three and only can do ON jeans-- which last about two-three months before my thighs of destruction kill them.
@Ipomoea is a joyful girl: It's funny; I consider myself "curvy" and Banana Republic fits me much better than Gap. I think that the tailoring helps me out and the flimsy nature of the Gap only highlights any "flaws" rather than highlighting assets.
The Chanel video was fascinating. I'd definitely watch a documentary about the formation of a dress from beginning to end (formation of fabric to runway).
Someone needs to give Mr. Timberlake and Charles W. Givenchy or whoever is in charge over there a lesson on adverbs. It's play intensely. No wonder kids nowadays all write like Carrie Prejean.
@NellMood: I seem to recall reading (right here on Jezebel, my source of pretty much all information most days!) that some designer was doing a Joan-inspired line -- but then, that was a designer, not someone who might produce clothes that I might be able to afford. Not that BR is often in that category, but, you know, it's at least within shouting distance.
@NellMood: Two great sources for Joan dresses (of which I have wayyyy too many) are eBay and www.kittygirlvintage.com. The trick is to go by the "flat measurements" of the dress, which is just as it sounds, laying the dress flat and measuring the waist, hips and bust (armpit-to-armpit). And it is easy to find larger sizes as well. Just search for "Bombshell wiggle dress vintage" and blam! tons will appear. Also, Stop Staring! makes Joan-esque dresses. Yes, I have an online vintage shopping problem that should have landed me on Intervention a while ago.
@ellaesther: Oh, yes, I remember reading about that, too. But I would love to walk into one of my city's ten million banana republics and pick something up.
@AvantGardenia: Ooh, I'll check out that site- thanks! Online vintage shopping seems like a pretty fabulous addiction. Hopefully no one intervenes on you.
@vintagegoddess:I'm terrible at shopping for vintage clothes. Terrible. It's like I'm missing a life skill. But I'm going to check out your stuff- maybe I'll be successful.
@egg cream is here, is second tier, get used to it: For real. I am shaped almost exactly like that. VERY large bust, VERY large hips, tiny waist. But, I'm short. Therefore, everything I wear makes me look like I am wearing a giant boxy sheet. Bleh.
@egg cream is here, is second tier, get used to it: Seriously! I was so excited by the headline (despite my normal indifference to/dislike of BR) and then.. crushing disappointment. Woe. Where are my Joan office clothes and Betty dresses?
I hate jeans because they're really, really, really hard to find in my size and length. They were agonizingly difficult to find for less than $150 when I was thinner, and they are even more scarce now. Mail-order can only do so much.
Granted, I'm working on losing a few pounds so I can get back into the few threadbare jeans that once fit me without looking like uber-short wader capris. But seriously, they're just not all that forgiving if you fall significantly outside the "standard" for most human females (read: I have a 36" inseam and hips from here to Armageddon.)
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Vintage.
Vintage online shops, not to toot my own horn I've got a couple of "Joan"ish dresses listed right now....
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AND WHERE IS THE LINE OF DRESSES INSPIRED BY THE HOT, HOT LADIES? WTF?
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Granted, I'm working on losing a few pounds so I can get back into the few threadbare jeans that once fit me without looking like uber-short wader capris. But seriously, they're just not all that forgiving if you fall significantly outside the "standard" for most human females (read: I have a 36" inseam and hips from here to Armageddon.)
I kind of want to learn to make my own clothes.
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That said, clothing manufacturers: Some ladies have hips, a bounty of them in fact. Please design accordingly. kthxbai.
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