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Marc Haefele: Mad Men fashion gets it wrong

Marc Haefele at Doubleday & Co, October 1970.
Marc Haefele at Doubleday & Co, October 1970.
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Marc Haefele: Mad Men fashion gets it wrong
Seen the new Banana Republic clothing line? It's based on AMC's hit series Mad Men, about a Madison Avenue ad agency in the 1960s. But Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele, who was working in NYC at the time, says Banana and Mad Men don't get the era quite right.

Seen the new Banana Republic clothing line? It's based on AMC's hit series Mad Men, about a Madison Avenue ad agency in the 1960s. But Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele, who was working in NYC at the time, says Banana and Mad Men don't get the era quite right.