drawing inspiration...

Went to see The King's Speech yesterday and Loved it!! Thought it was brilliant and (i know this is the most obvious thing to say but it is true!) Colin Firth was so wonderful in it. Was more than a little bit annoyed that the screening I went to had the top and bottom cut off but it was beautiful none the less. So lovely visually I adored it. Also have been watching some Mad Men recently. I just bought the box set of seasons 1-3 and have been rewatching the first season before I move on to the others. Betty Draper (as she is still known at the stage I'm at though I believe she won't have that surname for much longer...) is my style icon at the moment. I just love the shots of her doing the washing up in her dainty nightdresses with cigarette in hand and her visits to the couch. I also find myself spluttering a little (half with laughter and half with disbelief) at the crude remarks made by the Mad Men...hard to imagine a time when gender meant what it did then...