Could a tee-shirt spell impending doom for one Mad Men character?

According to culture blog TomAndLorenzo.com, it just might.

In a later scene from Sunday's episode, The Better Half, Don returns home to find Megan standing on the balcony; she was posed in her underwear, in a white tee shirt marked with a bright red star in the middle.

The bloggers said that they were unsure of the shirt's chronological accuracy, but intrepid fans of the show found that it indeed was and eerily so.

This same shirt appeared in a 1967 issue of Esquire, with that star covering the chest of actress Sharon Tate -- the same Sharon Tate who was married to director Roman Polanski and at eight months pregnant was brutally murdered in 1969 by the Manson family.

The show's costume designer, Janie Bryant took to Twitter to inform fans there was absolutely no coincidence in her choice of Megan's shirt (but is there ever any mere coincidence on Mad Men?), and Tracie Egan Morrissey of women's interest website Jezebel "[couldn't] help but think: Megan, you in danger, girl."

In a post written Wednesday, Morrissey wrote that the season has frequently shown two different versions of deterioration: one in Don and Megan's fractures marriage, and other in the city they live in, as it becomes more and more crime-ridden. Crime was explored in last week's episode, The Crash, as a serial burglar struck the Draper home, and during the episode Megan mentioned a real-life shooting that took place in Central Park. Police cars also features in the colored pencil drawings advertising this season.

Tom and Lorenzo also suggested that Megan and Abe have been matched up with each other, at least style-wise, and her red mark is a more fashionable -- and less painful -- version of the stab wound Abe received earlier in the episode.

However, as Morrissey wrote, "the red star could [still] also be a red herring." Tom and Lorenzo also suggested that this shirt might just simply reflect a more generic evolution in Megan's style over the season.

Commenting on Season 6 promotional shots released before the show's April premiere, the blogger noticed that the character's style "[was] going a more California-inspired, Sharon Tate kind of route, which fits her character."

Watch the preview for next week's Mad Men episode, A Tale Of Two Cities.

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