"I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring"
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The context most readers will hear behind this is Mad Men, and specifically Joan Holloway, a character whose power is routed through precision: nipped waists, engineered curves, immaculate tailoring. Hendricks isn’t simply praising the costume department; she’s naming the mechanics of a persona. “Sleekiness and tailoring” are euphemisms for control. Joan’s look isn’t casual sex appeal, it’s deliberate architecture - the kind that signals competence while daring anyone to reduce it to cleavage.
The subtext is a negotiation actresses are forced to master in public: embracing the image without sounding trapped by it. By framing the shift as “learnt,” Hendricks claims agency and craft. She’s not a body being styled; she’s a professional absorbing technique. At the same time, the line winks at the paradox of tight clothing as empowerment: liberation achieved through constraint, confidence built from garments designed to limit movement. It’s a candy-coated sentence with a steel corset underneath.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hendricks, Christina. (2026, January 17). I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-adore-the-incredibly-tight-clothing-my-own-43075/
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Hendricks, Christina. "I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-adore-the-incredibly-tight-clothing-my-own-43075/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-adore-the-incredibly-tight-clothing-my-own-43075/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.







