Mad Love… a Halloween message to Don Draper.
Oh. My. God. Don? DON!
Over here, Don!
Don, over here… Behind you!
It’s you! I can’t believe it! After all this time!
You look surprised to see me, Don. I don’t know why… I’ve been stalking you for years now!
Year after year, season after season. Episode after episode… I’ve waited for you, Don. Eager to live with your lies, your infidelity, your mysterious past…
Eager to fish through your suit pockets for evidence I will not find.
Eager for you to neglect me and make me feel small and worthless.
Eager to meet your sad, unappealing children. Eager to be perfectly coiffed and wear red lipstick and irritating curlers and never show emotion.
Gosh! It’s been so long! I haven’t seen you since, when???
I guess since that time I ran into you and Roger at The Plaza, and Roger said I was freakishly tall. And clearly over thirty.
And you said you would see me soon in Season 6… But that was so long ago, Don!
Where are you?
I miss you so much, Don! Why is Season 6 taking so long?
I miss your super shiny hair and your fantastic way of verbally punching people in the face.
I miss your amazing ability to drink an entire bottle of alcohol and not fall over.
I miss your eerily prescient way of fixing everything right before it all goes to hell.
And? Most of all, I miss you and Betty being together… She’s so beautiful and disdainful and angry. I love her almost as much as I love you.
In Season 6? Please get back together with Betty, Don. I really don’t like your new wife, Megan. She’s so vapid. And those mod clothes she wears are a disaster. I know she’s young and fresh, but the polyester is killing me, Don.
Or? Better yet—leave her, Don. Marry me! No one understands you like I do!
See 2013’s Halloween date with Don.
October 31, 2012 @ 9:16 am
You look amazing. Wonderful outfit. 🙂 You would totally do better as Don Draper’s BETTER half.
Of course, I haven’t seen the show since Season 1, but…yeah. 😉 Happy Hallowe’en.
October 31, 2012 @ 9:20 am
Obviously I have something of a Mad Men…errr… fetish, is probably not too strong a word, although it makes me sound insane.
Halloween is the one day I can dress like this, and not be committed. ☺
Happy Halloween!!
October 31, 2012 @ 9:19 am
Fantastic. And well-said. Great outfit! Have a lovely Hallowe’en.
October 31, 2012 @ 9:27 am
Right before I hit publish, I was like—I *really* cannot believe I’m about to put this on the Internet! Blogging has turned me into someone I don’t always recognize!!
Happy Halloween!!!
October 31, 2012 @ 9:30 am
It lets us get in touch with other sides of ourselves. Not so bad. We like you this way!
November 1, 2012 @ 8:52 am
🙂
November 3, 2012 @ 1:44 am
I know that feeling!
October 31, 2012 @ 9:20 am
Victoria,
If I make typos in this reply it’s because I’m bleary -eyed from laughing so hard! Love the dress, no, really, I think that dress works in today’s fashion as well as it would have in the sixties. I want to go as you to next year’s Halloween party and have Mr. B dye his hair and go as Don.
I’ve got to learn how to work with images on my site so that I can photoshop myself into Downton Abbey pictures…which is more my speed…especially since I lived through the sixties (I was but a child).
Happy Halloween.
Karen
October 31, 2012 @ 9:29 am
LOL! Calling my skills photoshopping is probably an offense to anyone who actually uses photoshop.
All I did was cut and paste the photos together. Literally. No image editor. I was actually pretty happy with the jarring result… it’s weirder that way.
You would look AWESOME in Downton Abbey. Everything is better with a butler!
Happy Halloween!!
October 31, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
Thanks, Victoria. From your blog post to Julian Fellowes, I’d love to let him know I’d be content with a minor role as a maid. 🙂
Karen
November 1, 2012 @ 8:49 am
Personally? I’m hoping to replace Maggie Smith. Obviously, I wouldn’t be nearly as magnificent, but her role is so phenomenal, I wouldn’t be happy playing anyone else!!
October 31, 2012 @ 9:47 am
Don should be so lucky! A girl like you… WAY out of his league. (giggle) But he is freakin’ hot, isn’t he? LOVE the “costume”. I call it a costume… but really I think you should wear it around town from time to time because it looks FABULOUS, dahling. The pearls are awesome!
Super cute, Victoria. I think AMC should use this as a promo for the upcoming season! I hear Don will be hitting the beach in Hawaii… can you say “hunk in a bathing suit”? 🙂 (with a drink in his hand and a cigarette, of course) Happy Halloween! I’m off to eat a tootsie roll.
October 31, 2012 @ 3:09 pm
I though I was Don’s biggest fan…. But In looking for pics of him for this post, I found a link to an ebay listing where they auctioned off a walk-on appearance in the show’s next season.
The auction was over, which is a good thing, since I *badly* would have wanted to outbid the winning buyer—$30,200. Crazy, no?
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2012 @ 1:53 pm
Leave him alone. He’s mine……………..
October 31, 2012 @ 3:10 pm
I actually laughed out loud. Then I was like—bring it. I think I can take you… I probably have a height advantage.
October 31, 2012 @ 3:35 pm
I think you do too. Follow me I just might make you laugh again.
October 31, 2012 @ 2:50 pm
Can I say this without being offensive? You look f***ing Great. I am jealous!
October 31, 2012 @ 3:13 pm
Thank you! Thank you! That was last weekend, and by the time I got home, I’ve never been so happy to see my sweatpants.
Glamour is lovely, but so uncomfortable!!
October 31, 2012 @ 4:01 pm
TOO CUTE!!!! 🙂
November 1, 2012 @ 8:50 am
Happy Halloween!! 🙂
October 31, 2012 @ 4:14 pm
Ha, ha, ha!! You are the best! I think you could totally take down Megan AND Betty. Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2012 @ 8:50 am
Happy Halloween!!
October 31, 2012 @ 4:35 pm
OH MY GOD!! I almost choked on my morning coffee (it’s only 7.30am here)!!!!! LOL You look fabulous! LOVE LOVE your outfit!
A little obsessed with Don Draper are we? 😉
November 1, 2012 @ 8:51 am
It’s to the point where I don’t even try to hide my addiction.
Next I may buy Paul a fedora and just call him Don… We’ll see how he feels about that.
October 31, 2012 @ 11:51 pm
I love Megan Calvet Draper! Maybe I feel a weird young step-mother complicity with her or something. But I also love Betty… Adorable costume and post, love Mad Men, too!
November 1, 2012 @ 9:01 am
I was so certain that Don and Betty *must* be going to get back together… so Megan is kind of the wrench in my ultimate Mad Men plot.
Also, I feel that Megan has unfairly gotten the “new and improved” version of Don… which makes me mad. Everyone acts like Betty’s just crazy—rather than how maybe Don made her that way.
November 1, 2012 @ 9:09 am
They soo definitely left it open. I do like Betty’s new husband though, he is a good guy. If I say I totally get Betty… omg… does that make me crazy, too? Wow I am way too invested in this show — it’s my dream to write a doctoral dissertation on it… too bad I’m in the wrong field!!!
November 1, 2012 @ 9:22 am
Betty is so reviled, I hesitate to tell people how much I love her. I agree her new husband is lovely… he’s just not Don. And, as you can see? I’m kind of fixated on Don.
If I could go live inside my TV with those people, I totally would.
November 1, 2012 @ 7:50 am
Hilarious and adorable. Love those pearls! I’ve never watched Mad Men and probably never will but this was a wonderful introduction to it.
November 1, 2012 @ 9:22 am
I am thrilled to be your introduction to Mad Men. In fact, if whenever anyone says Mad Men to you, you think of me? My life will pretty much be complete.
November 2, 2012 @ 8:03 am
Oh, yes. I will think of you and the lovely frock you are rocking.
November 2, 2012 @ 11:19 am
🙂
November 1, 2012 @ 10:13 am
That is hilarious!
November 2, 2012 @ 11:19 am
Hey, thanks!!
November 2, 2012 @ 4:55 am
Great photos, awesome fun!!
November 2, 2012 @ 11:20 am
Thank you… I only had to take fifty to get the five I needed!
November 3, 2012 @ 1:49 am
That was fantastic! What an imagination you have and photoshopping your self in the photos was such a great idea. oh and love the necklace(s) also.
November 4, 2012 @ 9:04 am
LOL! Thanks! I was totally entertained with pasting myself in those photos.
November 4, 2012 @ 10:00 am
I go away for barely a week and I miss this fabulousness? Damnit you look amazing and that cast photo – I’m still trying wipe the tears away from my eyes. I tried getting into Mad Men but couldn’t and I have no idea why. Actually I do. I think I just needed complete concentration on the show. It’s sort of like Breaking Bad. Smart shows require smart viewing habits meaning no “Mommy I want jooooooooooce pleeeezzzzzz” in the background every 5 mins. I’ll catch up in 20 years and that style will still be as sexy and cool as it is on you. 🙂
November 4, 2012 @ 6:09 pm
Mad Men is like the perfect storm for me—I love every single piece of it. The sets, the plot, the actors, the costuming… Multiplied by my tendency for obsessive focus on something I love. Plus, I find Don Draper wildly attractive.
As much as I think Star Wars conventions or other wacky, comic-based gatherings of people who seem a little on the fringe… are inexplicably weird? I would TOTALLY go to a Mad Men convention.
Hope you were on vacation, and that it was relaxing… or exciting, whichever was the goal.
December 13, 2012 @ 11:41 am
Found you from Apartment Therapy. You’re a riot. The end.
December 13, 2012 @ 11:59 am
Clearly… you have superior taste.
April 7, 2013 @ 10:05 pm
You mean this isn’t how you dress all the time? It’s soooo you. Sorry I’m a bit at to post but I’m still catching up with all the blogs – s0o much to read, so0 little time. Cherio see you n the next blog. T.
April 8, 2013 @ 12:05 pm
If it weren’t incredibly uncomfortable, I would totally dress like that all the time… Also, I’m pretty sure it explains why Betty is in such a bad mood all the time… I think if she wore sweatpants, she’d be an entirely different person.
June 22, 2013 @ 10:04 am
You are a scream
June 28, 2013 @ 2:47 pm
I too know absolutely nothing about this show “Mad Men” or your illustrious Don, but I can tell you, you are one hilarious introduction to it and him and I think you absolutely fabulous in that outfit! – it is stunning in such a retro kind of way – totally hip!
July 2, 2013 @ 2:31 pm
Mmmmm….I don’t look fantastic….but u do!
I therefore have a question for u Elizabeth: how do u manage to stay so thin?
I used to be…sniff, sniff