| "Maidenform" is the sixth episode of the second | | | | anything involving creative work. It makes Peggy feel |
| season of AMC's Mad Men television series. The | | | | as if she's simply the wrong gender for the type of |
| episode features Herman 'Duck' Phillips and his | | | | work she does, and asks Joan Holloway for advice on |
| struggles in and out of the workplace, beginning with | | | | how to break through the 'boys' club' mentality. |
| the fallout over his failed bid for American Airlines' | | | | Joan's advice is rather simple: "You want to be taken |
| accounts after going against Don Draper to attempt to | | | | seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl." On Duck's |
| do so in the first place. | | | | desperate advice, he urges Sterling-Cooper to meet |
| He realizes he's in the doghouse and needs to pull out | | | | with Playtex to pitch them new ideas for an ad |
| a 'win' in order to get the respect of the office back, | | | | campaign, yet Don doesn't see the point since Playtex |
| which doesn't make things easier when a lucrative | | | | is already successful where they are at Maidenform. |
| Playtex account is poached by rival ad company | | | | Duck goes ahead with it anyway and Don gives a |
| Maidenform. On top of all this, Duck's ex-wife has | | | | great ad man show for the Playtex execs, but as |
| plans to remarry, and his children openly pity him | | | | predicted they aren't interested in a new campaign |
| believing him to be a lonely man with nothing but his job | | | | since they are enjoying the best sales in the entire |
| to fall back on. Meanwhile, Peggy Olson feels left out | | | | brassiere industry. |
| as she is always cut out from major meetings and | | | | |