Dry - I am so glad someone else has noticed this. This color is lately popping up elsewhere too! And often in very high end commercials. We used to call it 'Tiffany' Blue but now it has become THE color of Korean Airlines. The commercials are beautifully done and THAT VERY COLOR is covertly placed in each frame. It is also the color of the flight attendant blazers. As a color for that era, I don't recall it being that blue. I do remember the term 'aqua' and seeing the color everywhere in the 60s. I happen to really like seeing it today and for me, it's a 'feel good' shade. Do you have any insights as to why it's currently so widely used and in MM in particular? l

I remember "peacock blue". I had a bottle of ink that color for my fountain pen! (Yes, we used fountain pens in school!)

I was a new bride in 1960 and I decorated a lot of things in my apartment in Turquoise, which was a popular color then. What do you think? I used to call the color you are referring to as Robin's Egg Blue (also the color of the Easter egg given to Peggy by the priest.

....Hi Hyperboliz.... It seems like sometimes there are episodes that employ color themes... I kind of get the idea it's not much more than superficially symbolic, but I always love the choices and combinations.

I took another look, and saw several different shades of blue, not just the "peacock." That was something my mother used to say all the time. She was very specific about every shade of blue, since she was an interior decorator, and it was her favorite color.

I've noticed something really interesting in this series, and that is the regional differences. Being a west-coaster, there are many references to trends, businesses, locations, customs and logistics that fly right over my head. Makes me wish I had grown up in that area!

As to that shade of blue, it seems to have come back around to being in fashion, and is pretty trendy right now for interiors.... again probably a boomer thing.

I haven't seen the Korean Airlines commercials.... where did you see them? I can check YouTube.... thanks for the interesting post.

I used Peacock Blue ink, too! I loved writing with a fountain pen, first in high school and later in the office. I quit using them at work because people were always walking away with them. I wonder if they still make Peacock Blue ink?

I think there must be color symbolism/themes in different episodes. A couple episodes back, in "Maidenform", there was a lot of yellow, specifically in the outfits of many of the female characters (including Betty's yellow bikini, Peggy's blouse, Duck's daughter's dress). Yellow is an earthy color and it symbolizes summer and light (like the sun), but it also has negative symbolic meanings, like illness, weakness and cowardice. It was such a prominent color in that episode, I wondered what the costume people and the writers were trying to say with that.

......Also, have you noticed that in each scene, it really does seem that the characters' costumes in general, as well as their surroundings, all seem to be designed to color-coordinate.

The one scene in Freddy's office (I think), there was Sal and Peggy in browns and sage greens, and in other scenes everyone is in the same shade of blue.

I'll have to pay better attention in the future to any symbolism they might want to get across but, symbolic or not, it's always a treat for the eyes!

And Joan had on a blue dress (with the same color/material bow on top.
I've read somewhere that Cobalt Blue is the new color now.

OOPS, it was JANE, not JOAN with the blue dress.

Hi Zerelda and Pinkpetunia: Yes! Peacock Blue Ink from Schaeffer! We could only use fountain pens, and had to use dark blue. Using Peacock blue was incredibly rebellious! Boy, are we overdrawn at the memory bank!

I keep adding up props that are pink, starting with that pink elephant figurine. Pink dresses, pink towels, pink sweaters, etc. I'll keep my eye peeled for the blue. (My mom painted EVERYTHING turquoise (we live in the southwest). )

Jolie10: As I said in an earlier post, when I married in the early '60s, along with decorating with turquoise (kitchen, bedroom, lvg room, my bathroom and future baby room was pink - both big colors in those days. (Luckily I had a girl and didn't have to change that room color.)

And how about that pink towel Don "draped" himself in after he showered?