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" New Year&amp;#039;s Eve is dismal for everyone, and our friends in Mad Men Land are getting it right in the face. We all thought Don&amp;#039;s holiday trip would serve up some exotic babes in bikinis, but in the end it only brought heartache. Well, and one babe in a bikini. But Anna&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;political,&amp;quot; Berkeley-going niece carries \u2014 along with rejection (she all but calls the man a creep!) and some unexpected bad news \u2014 a new and virulent strain of unkemptness. For a moment there, I was almost shocked, thinking Mad Men wardrobe nerd Janie Bryant had missed a beat and slipped in some dirty modern hair and a sloppy Aran-knit cardigan. But no: it&amp;#039;s 1965 now, and things are about to get ugly. Don also shocks us with an olive-checked blazer and a mysterious &amp;#039;blue shirt.&amp;#039; Is it denim? It can&amp;#039;t be. It&amp;#039;s just chambray. Right? I do feel for him \u2014 all the women he cares about in his life are leaving him, one way or another. I&amp;#039;m just hoping he can keep his wardrobe together. After the terrible news about Anna, Don&amp;#039;s back to New York, where Pryce is also having lady trouble. Now, Pryce is my personal show-crush. He&amp;#039;s a real gentleman, resisting Joan&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;chicken&amp;quot; but still sending her sincere (if botched) flowers to apologize for harsh words. But the real key to my affection is his style: there is no stopping that man when it comes to a challenging suit. Ever the fan of the sexy three-piece, Pryce is now mixing a tweed vest with worsted suiting without breaking a sweat. Genius. The &amp;quot;Incorruptible Exception&amp;quot; is suffering, though, and for once we see Pryce lose his British cool. He seems to pull it together in the end, though not until after a riotous, drunken New Year&amp;#039;s Eve with Don featuring monsters of all sorts. Not the least of which is another bedraggled newcomer \u2014 the comedian at the Greenwich Village club (played by ex-Meadow Soprano fling Will Janowitz). Again something felt awry, like a spaceman had waddled into the room: sloppy jacket, loud shirt, no tie, beltless. Even as he mocked Don and Pryce, he made them look like supermodels. Okay, gents, the overwhelming lesson here is clear: While wearing a steak as a belt buckle is ill-advised, it&amp;#039;s also healthy to cut lose when life seems to be stacking against you. Keeping it neat and simple will at least leave you looking appealing enough for a nice lady to consider helping you feel better \u2014 hopefully for free, in your case. As we see the dawn of the hippy future, Don&amp;#039;s quote becomes all the more poignant: &amp;quot;Just because it&amp;#039;s old, doesn&amp;#039;t mean it&amp;#039;s bad.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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