Gothamist: Surprise! Today, Ad Execs Don't Dress Like Mad Men

everyAframe

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:26:10 -0500

What is an ad agency?

SP

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:04:42 -0500

My ex is a finance chick, she dressed like she was going to a funeral every day. I guess in a certain sense she was. A funeral for her soul.

jengirlnyc

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:57:17 -0500

i like this part: "The sexist attitudes that are regularly part of "Mad Men" plot lines seem incompatible with modern agencies like Droga5." cough **bullsh*t** cough

rdsizzle

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:20:01 -0500

Just picked up the box set for season 1 mad men yesterday; what a great show. I would have flourished in that era. I would trade my gym@ lunch, open collar, blackberry lifestyle for a 3+ martini lunch, full suit wiht a pocket square and a secretary....That would be awesome!

nicemarmot

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:12:29 -0500

Well I work in advertising...and we are most definitely not doing jeans around here. I frickin wish!

miz coaster

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:00:26 -0500

Okay - as a creative I will speak for some of us. Yes, some of us do dress like grown children, but admit it... if we showed up in suits - and no flair *coughs* like the finance folks, you all would be worried that we're not.... "eccentric" enough. on the flip side, i really wish that my colleugues(SP???) would stop dressing like I did when I was 10, 11 and 12 years old. Oh and please for the love of god, please toss the nasty flip flops. And the ugly Kayne Glasses and the see thru tank tops. So, in the end, my point is, there is a fine line of professionalism.

matty

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:47:46 -0500

"creatives" have a tendency to dress like grown children. At least in this article they admit as much.

CR

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:47:08 -0500

I'd be a little more concerned with making sure the men don't *act* like Donald Draper as opposed to dressing like him. Dude has got some serious, serious issues, and is a pretty shitty husband.