Joan from Madmen is one of my all time favorite TV characters. I love her smart, savvy, sexy demeanor in the office. She's a red headed vixen whose nobody's doll baby. In spite of her intuitive and often thoughtful observations about office politics and the general bad behavior of the men in the company-I actually most adore her for her luscious, curvy, full hipped, high breasted confidence as she saunters down the hallway pushing the mail cart between offices. How refreshing to be reminded of how real women in the late 1960's used to really look. Joan reminds me of my aunts, ladies in the church choir, my school teachers, my best pal's mama, bank tellers, and office secretaries across town. These women were soft when you touched them and smelled of baby powder & Windsong cologne... These women who walked with heads held high, chin up, hips swiveling, and brows arched. The same women who wore coordinated polyester suits, stacked heels, filmy scarves, and panty hose (for God's sake!) while swinging and striding and sauntering about their business with absolutely no shame about their size 12,14, or 16 wide hips... How refreshing it would be if fashion could resurrect the curvy likes of Marilyn-wide hips and child bearing bellies and big boobs to boot. Instead we have the modern age where pencil thin and third world impoverished is the new look. We can thank actresses such as Jen Anniston, Courtney Cox, Megan Fox, and Angelina Jolie for making rangy, stringy, hard angles all the defeating rage...
So here's a salute to Joanie! And to all those other "real" women from the past who embraced their bodies AS IS in all their soft and perfectly curvy imperfection.
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