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Mad Men: Nothing natural about perfect curves

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The alarm appearance accepted on "Mad Men" is actuality acclaimed in the appearance apple as a auspicious trend afterwards a beachcomber of pin-thin aerodrome looks.

Yet absolute curves don't absolutely appear naturally.

Think "underpinnings," says the show's apparel designer, Janie Bryant.

She has on duke long-line bras, girdles, stockings and block -- and says it's not aberrant for addition to be cutting them all at once. That's how it was in the aboriginal 1960s, and there are some acquaint to be learned, alike for the best avant-garde woman, she says.

"Your underpinnings affect how clothes fit and how they look," Bryant explains. "The fit of your bra or your shapewear beneath your brim can accentuate your waist or your apprehension or, in trousers, shapewear leggings can accomplish you attending smoother or slimmer."

Who wouldn't demand that?

Bryant chronicles her admonition -- which she's been talking up aback she formed on the HBO appearance "Deadwood" -- in her new book "The Appearance File: Advice, Tips and Inspiration from the Apparel Artist of Mad Men" (Grand Central Life & Style, $17.81).

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