Oh Joan! Mad Men's Christina Hendricks is almost unrecognisable as she dresses down in dowdy clothes

She's known for her killer curves and cocktail dresses as sultry secretary Joan Holloway in Mad Men - but Christina Hendricks was looking distinctly dressed down and dowdy yesterday.

The star had ditched her usually glamorous look for combat trousers, a torn white t-shirt, black cardigan and flip flops as she visited a friend in Hollywood.

The 35-year-old actress also had her famous auburn hair scraped back and her face was free from her trademark slick of red lipstick.

That's torn it: Christina Hendricks looks half asleep - which may explain the coffee - as well as distinctly unglamorous in Hollywood yesterday

Make under: Christina was almost unrecognisable in her ripped t-shirt, combat trousers, flip flops, cardigan and specs



She certainly looked a million miles away from the Madison Avenue offices of Sterling Cooper.

Just last week, the voluptuous lovely turned on the style in a printed maxi dress for the premiere of her husband Geoffrey Arend's latest movie Devil in Los Angeles.

Va-va-voom: Christina as we're used to seeing her on the red carpet last week for the premiere of her husband Geoffrey Arend's new movie Devil

The pair, who will celebrate their first wedding anniversary on 11 October, are due to star together in an episode of new U.S. medical drama Body Of Proof.

Hendricks - who holds dual American and British nationality as her father is British - was voted sexiest woman in the world in a poll of female readers taken by Esquire magazine earlier this year.



But judging by yesterday's photos, it seems even the hottest lady on the planet has an off-day every now and then.



In character: Christina as Mad Men's Joan Harris

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However, fans will be reassured that Ms Hendricks still has her va-va-voom when she returns to our screens on Mad Men on Wednesday night.

The episode, the third of series four, sees Joan - who's actually now Mrs Harris rather than Holloway - trying to start a family with doctor husband Greg.

Mad Men is on BBC4 at 10pm.