.....hi K&B......good catch, and good post...... maddicts love those minute details!

i'm interested too....hope someone has an answer.

Hey K&B (not Kaufmann & Broad is it?). You are correct in your note about the anachronisms in MM. There are many and I note at least three each week. Although we (MM bloggers) don't always agree on what is truly anachronistic and what might just be regional colloquialisms, we do agree that certain glitches do exist. It's kind of fun to get everyone's take on this. Your response to the show is interesting but not surprising since the late 50s/early 60s WAS a time where we kept EVERYTHING bottled up. Fortunately, the late 60s changed everything! Enjoy and post often. I don't recall return address labels stick on or otherwise in 1962. But since I was seven in 1962 I didn't do much mail - but recall my mother and sisters wrote everything out longhand (Palmer Method, of course)! MM seems to be less strict in their adherence to period minutiae but as Dry already said, WE love the details......

I guess most glaring error in Season 1 to me was the mass market paperback posing as a 1960 copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Particularly noticeable, I guess, because internal evidence easily confirmed the anachronism, i.e., in comparison to the more prominently displayed slender paperbacks of Frank O'Hara and Rona Jaffe with two- and three-color plain covers.

Linguistic anachronisms enrage me: that's one of the major flaws of the movie Titantic - the contemporary language spewing forth from early 20th-century characters in what was reportedly a faithful reproduction of the set, costumes, etc. The banality of the script was another flaw, of course, but that's another story.

In the episode "Three Sundays" when Peggy's sister is in the confessional, she begins her confession with the sign of the cross; but uses "holy spirit" rather than "holy ghost". I'm of the belief that after Vatican II we started the "holy spirit" and these episodes are all in 1962...
Plus, later in the season (can't recall which episode), "holy ghost" IS used.

Not that it really matters...

Don tells Bobbie in the Lutece powder room: "The window of Jimmy's apology is about to close."

Wasn't it in the 1980's when one-minute-manager yuppies started using that expression "the window of opportunity"?

I don't recall hearing anyone in the 60's use that metaphor, either on TV, movies or within my family.

K&B, you mention Sally's pajamas.

I also rather thought that Betty's magenta chiffon strapless gown at Lutece was of a certain shade seen AFTER the psychedelic year of 1967, not before.

Seems to me, the pink seen in the early 60's was not a magenta, but either a candy pink or a kind of strawberry pink, or the 1950's fallback of coral-pink.

Nevertheless, I am always amazed at some of the things Italian designers were doing in the early 1960's... they really do look almost "psychedelic"... they were ahead of their time.

My friend Leslie Cabarga is a well-respected graphic designer, and he likes to show off a set of really groovy, psychedelic alphabets... Were they far-out fonts invented by the San Francisco poster designers of 1968?

No way.

They were designs released by Swiss graphic artists circa 1947. Un-freaking-believable. The Europeans always do seem to initiate movements... which we Americans steal. (-: