Oh, I don't think anybody considered it, like, a fashion issue. More just a way of acting rather than just being acted upon. There's a dignity in preparation, no matter what preparing is going on. (And as Betty Draper knows, that is something that's going to have to be decided by somebody!)
Also, in my mind even if this interpretation is correct I don't think Philip would have literally thought of himself as doing it. Just like I don't think he'd have literally been thinking, "Well, I'm going to die so I'll break the rules watch a Russian movie in my living room. I'll never see the place again in person." But it's obviously a huge thing to do.
That reminds me something from another ep that I don't know if i ever mentioned, but it's when Philip is with Tuan and he's thinking of his father and the song "Cranes" is playing. I originally assumed the song was from the 40s so it was one he'd associate with childhood. It's a song about WWII. But I only recently discovered the song's from the late 60s--so after Philip left. He probably wouldn't even ever have heard it. Yet they used it--the only Russian song ever--for him. A song about soldiers dying on a foreign battlefield and never going home.
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Re: Philip's funeral suit
Date: 2018-05-19 04:23 am (UTC)Also, in my mind even if this interpretation is correct I don't think Philip would have literally thought of himself as doing it. Just like I don't think he'd have literally been thinking, "Well, I'm going to die so I'll break the rules watch a Russian movie in my living room. I'll never see the place again in person." But it's obviously a huge thing to do.
That reminds me something from another ep that I don't know if i ever mentioned, but it's when Philip is with Tuan and he's thinking of his father and the song "Cranes" is playing. I originally assumed the song was from the 40s so it was one he'd associate with childhood. It's a song about WWII. But I only recently discovered the song's from the late 60s--so after Philip left. He probably wouldn't even ever have heard it. Yet they used it--the only Russian song ever--for him. A song about soldiers dying on a foreign battlefield and never going home.