Jill Harness
Own a Piece of Mad Men History
by Jill Harness - August 20, 2010 - 8:53 AM

If getting to Mad Men yourself wasn’t enough for you, then perhaps the Mad Men props being sold on eBay might offer you the experience to live your life in the sixties. Up for sale are props from Sterling Cooper including chairs and artworks, but perhaps the most exciting items are wardrobe pieces from both Joan, Bobbie Barrett and Betty, or the opportunity to for a walk-on role in the show. Of course, some of the proceeds are going to charity, in this case, the lung cancer program at California’s City of Hope hospital.

I recently found out that Joan and I are the same size (although not in the same areas unfortunately), so now all I need is $800 to get one of her dresses.

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Comments (6)

  1. Oh man. I definitely wouldn’t mind having a Betty dress…or heaps of money to obtain it.

    posted by Lindsay on 8-20-2010 at 10:49 am

  2. Not fair. I am exactly, precisely the same size as Joan (and my mother’s name is Joan Harris…and yes, she’s a redhead), and I can NEVER find vintage clothes that fit me. Why do I not have heaps of extra money lying about? Why?

    posted by loripop on 8-20-2010 at 10:58 am

  3. Well! I’m glad to see that they cleaned off that green dress.

    posted by Elly Vortex on 8-20-2010 at 11:10 am

  4. To think that dry-cleaning technology had digressed only thirty years later. Eva Marie Saint and Carey Grant elegantly express my feelings about Christina Hendricks/Joan:

    EMS: “I’m a big girl.”
    CG: “…and in all the right places…”

    posted by Tim S. on 8-20-2010 at 12:38 pm

  5. @loripop

    If you are the same size as Joan and you don’t have heaps of extra money lying about, my question is “why?” too!

    posted by Tim S. on 8-20-2010 at 7:28 pm

  6. I have wanted that Betty dress from the moment I saw it! It’s my favorite Mad Men outfit. Too bad I don’t have a spare $2K.

    posted by Karen in Japan on 8-21-2010 at 7:36 am

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