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Mirror, Mirror: 'Pan Am' clothes classy, '60s customs not so much

Pan Am, ABC's new airline drama, is worth watching if only to see stylish stewardesses clad in regulation cool blue uniforms, embroidered bags, and wrist-length white gloves.

The elegant vintage of "Mad Men": "While the clothes are beautiful," says a fashion professor, "they don't tell the complete story, especially when it comes to African Americans, civil rights, and the struggle for women in the corporate world."
The elegant vintage of "Mad Men": "While the clothes are beautiful," says a fashion professor, "they don't tell the complete story, especially when it comes to African Americans, civil rights, and the struggle for women in the corporate world."Read moreFRANK OCKENFELS / AMC
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