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One last post. I slept too long during my post-3rd shift nap today, so I’m up, having watched more MTM. All this comes from Episode 5 of Season 2… how did they ever compress so much fashion into so little time!

As a guest star, this episode had the incomparable Nancy Walker reprising her role (from Season 1) as Rhoda’s mother. That was also a good episode. I’ll have to post that one as well.

Here we see Phyllis wearing what looks like book covers or place mats on either side of her neck. A starched linen food processor? It dices! It slices! It makes mounds of julienne fries! Maybe they will close and chop off her hear? But wait! there’s more:

A matching set, actually. The enchanting Lisa Gerritsen playing Beth – Phyllis’ daughter. This is child abuse, pure and simple. The cheap restaurant tablecloths made into skirts moves forward the idea that those are place mats about their necks. What are those: vinyl belts? Plastic? Naugahyde? Certainly no one on this show would wear a more generic pleather?

And now the fun: here we have a meeting of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, clearly wearing your grandmother’s sofa. There’s a reason no one in this show never had a date. I begin to think that we never saw Lars, Phyllis’ husband, because they couldn’t figure out what to make him wear. (Actually, for Mary, that’s because all the men she went out with were Metrosexual before their time… but that’s another series of posts.)

At the end of the episode, Mary gets ready for bed. After a half-hour of frumpery, we get this… what? I guess it was the 70s after all.

Nancy Walker inspired Mary to add 1/2 inch in modest clothing style. In the previous Rhoda’s Mom episode (season 1) there was also a pyjama-party scene. Mary was wearing a LOT more. I do need to post some of those pics… later. I’m on Season 2 now.