Playboy.com Flashes Back to the '60s for One Day Only
All day today, visitors to Playboy.com's homepage will find the website retrofitted for the 1960s. That means special features like a photo gallery of the era's Playmates alongside classic cars of the period, an interview with Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr., and even an advice column from yesteryear. Our favorite question: "Is it proper to remove a girl's fashion wig before making love to her?"
Playboy's online archive will be "brought to you by Mad Men" from Mon., Aug. 10 to Sun., Aug. 23 and will feature the best issues from the decade in honor of Mad Men's premiere. There's also some modern-day content as Sterling Cooper's boys frolic with bunnies. Check out the revamped Playboy homepage or Playboy's online archive if you don't believe us.
That's awesome! I actually wondered about the wig etiquette when Midge was wearing one in the first season. I wasn't sure if she kept it on or off during her 'time" with Don.
…..This is insane…..but it should be more historically and responsibly detailed….. it’s too frivolous and slick and shallow.
The age of “the wholesome yet naughty girl next door.”
Pre-silicone….. and all natural.
Meowza!
I feel sorry for Hef….. he is a very lovable, forerunning and admirable anachronism.
That's an interesting tie-in. The Mad Men costumers have done a wonderful job creating men's clothing that is true to this period. Playboy used to devote a significant number of pages to fashion in the late 1950s and 1960s, and was an early proponent of the "Ivy League Look".
No Mad Man on Uverse in Little Rock AR! This is outrageous. AMC please fix that
I just toured the PLAYBOY site's gallery of vintage playmates.
As Dry Manhattan says, the aesthetic was to share with you a "girl" who could be your next-door neighbor.
Or your girlfriend. Or sister. Or wife.
There is a warm, haymishe quality to these photographs that I have some nostalgia for. (Probably politically incorrect of me to say so). In fact, there are one or two models in this lineup...who mightn't be considered beauties today.
The totally fabricated, siliconed, cap-toothed bleached-blonde Barbies one sees today in PLAYBOY do nothing for me... they don't look... accessible somehow.
But nowadays, I think men do want to look at Playmates...who in no wise resemble their neighbors, sisters, mothers, schoolteachers, wives.
Kind of a shame, really. Something has been lost.
I agree rasputin. I wonder if it's because the women who are unreal and completely unattainable are somehow less threatening.
I've long held the opinion that since the 80's, they really put the "boy" in Playboy, as it seems they no longer present real women to real men.
I agree... ahhh the days when the men were men and the women weren't anorexic and plastic.
Time Waits For No Mad Men...What if MAD MEN wasn't set in the '60s but in the present day instead? How might the characters be different? What would the employees of Sterling Cooper be doing in 2009? Take a look at this fun blog.
Time Waits For No Mad Men - Mad Men in the 21st Century
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Certainly in the MADMEN years, men weren't expected to have hardbodies, either.
I think of movies like RAY or GREY GARDENS or CADILLAC RECORDS in which they'll show young men on the beach... Such doughy (if winsome) Anglo-Saxon faces, and scrawny, bony torsos!
Certainly in the MADMEN years, men weren't expected to have hardbodies, either.
I think of movies like RAY or GREY GARDENS or CADILLAC RECORDS in which they'll show young men on the beach... Such doughy (if winsome) Anglo-Saxon faces, and scrawny, bony torsos!