Mary Van Notes

A lot of the fashion blogs are abuzz with excitement over the season premiere of Mad Men on August 16.  If I had AMC I would be stoked.  I’m even tempted to dive in to season 1 DVDs just to drool over the costumes and sets, and not to mention the sexbomb that is Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm.   I say that Don Draper is the sexbomb because I am so clearly attracted to the way he dresses in 1960s tailored suits, although I am also a sucker for the whole rugged-manly-man-in-his-30s look which would be entering Jon Hamm territory.   What I thought I could contribute to the Mad Men buzz in the fashion blogosphere is how connected the drama series is to comedy.

Jon Hamm is a comedy nerd.   I say that in the highest regard.  And from what I can gather, he’s got quite the comedy palette- from frequenting the hip comedy shows at the Largo theater in Los Angeles to hanging around with comedians like Jimmy Pardo, Sarah Silverman and Zach Galifianakis.  Here he is being interviewed by Zach on Between Two Ferns:

I’m tempted to move to Los Angeles only to try and mill around the same social circle as the Mad Men star.  I heard from the grapevine that Jon Hamm was seen at a party at Sarah Silverman’s pad with the likes of Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island, Norm Macdonald, Human Giant’s Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and Aziz Ansari, and the writing staff and cast of The Sarah Silverman Program.  Even megastars like Jessica Alba and Jon Favreau were in attendance.  Apparently Hamm and Favreau were chatting it up most of the evening, so maybe there’ll be a new Favreau-directed/Hamm-lead motion picture in the works.

Dreaming of the potential hook-up between a comedienne like myself and a handsome Mad Men star is not too far off the wagon.  Elizabeth Moss, who plays secretary Peggy Olson in Mad Men, is engaged to the hilarious Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live fame.  Let’s only hope Hamm is as into funny girls as Moss is to funny boys.  Apparently Hamm is taken by actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt.  No word on if she’s funny, although she did co-write the romantic-comedy screenplay Kissing Jessica Stein.

What it all comes down to is that I wish I was in Mad Men.  Come on… wearing vintage clothing and undergarments to work everyday?

Getting my hair and makeup done in period style?

Hanging around handsome men in tailored suits and donning hair like this?

Umm, yeah! I’d probably pull a diva deal the way Sarah Jessica Parker did with Sex and the City and demand in the contract that I be able to keep all the wardrobe I wear. I’d love to own pieces like this:

Check out the interview here with Janie Bryant, the costume designer of the show.

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