Bob hope photo
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Thanksgiving Hollywood Style

Back in the golden age of Hollywood, movie studios invested considerable effort in crafting the image of their stars.  Back then, pr men worked overtime to quash reports of peccadillos and promote wholesomeness.  Thus began the publicity still showing off movie stars at home, with their kids, and of...

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Kenneth Jay Lane Jewelry
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Kenneth Jay Lane – Fabulous Faker

The Fabulous FakerIt’s not often you find a designer hawking his jewelry on QVC while at the same time showing his pieces in the jewelry department of Neiman Marcus, but then there has never been a designer quite like Kenneth Jay Lane (KJL).Famous (or infamous) for copying the styles of both fine an...

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Vintage Half Hats
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Half Hats – The One Style for Every Woman

The most common remark Madge gets once someone knows that she sells vintage hat is “I love hats, but I just don’t look good in them”.   Madge’s reply comes right out of her personal manifesto: The women who thinks she can’t wear hats just hasn’t found the right hat.  For today’s stylish woman who wa...

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Vintage Sheet music
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The Art of Vintage Sheet Music

The Art of Vintage Sheet Music 
Madge is a fan of found art and loves to repurpose the unexpected to hang on walls. She’d much rather frame a magazine than purchase an expensive painting. As an occasional feature she will be posting some money saving trick for decorating your home.

 

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Story of Judith McCann & wingback earrings
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The Story of Judith McCann & Wingback Earrings

Throughout the centuries earring design concentrated on fashion, not comfort.  From the primitive stick-through-the-ear beginnings to those pinching screw-backs of the 20th century, women were at the mercy of the painful earring clip.  In the 1940s, one woman, Judith McCann, set out to cha...

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Life Mag 1948
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Another Slice of Life Magazine

A few days ago Madge featured a fabulous Life Magazine spread on dinner hats. She thought you might like to see some of the marvelous ads from that issue.  So, here's another slice of Life Magazine from November 1948. 

Don't you just love the colors in this Forstman fabrics ad? ...

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