International Women's DayIn honor of International Women's Day I take a moment to remember my grandmother Madge Beals Meredith. Naming my online shop #MadgesHatboxVintage, was loving nod to her years as a #milliner. Then a chance remark by my aunt sent me on a yearlong journey in search of a hat sho...
From a sod house to a cloche. A trip through my grandmother Madge's photo album filled with family photos and style inspiration for her millinery business.Before there was a hatbox, there was a sod house.
Madge, thirteen near Hays, Kansas. Where necessity and pos...
Well, the new year can't come fast enough for us here at Madge Central, so we are toasting 2026 with some fun publicity stills from Classic Hollywood. If you love vintage movies and kitschy photos, you will enjoy these stars from the 1930s through the 1970s.This hat is the ultimate champagne toast...
Vintage handbagsWhether you call it a handbag, purse or pocketbook, most stylish women wouldn’t be caught without one. Designers, well aware of this fact, have built the most profitable part of their businesses around this accessory. Where would Chanel or Michael Kors be without their handbags?Each ...
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...
Hollywood has long influenced mainstream fashion, using film as a powerful medium to introduce bold, new styles. Madge recently had the opportunity to talk with Joan Amenn of In Their Own League in the first installment of her YouTube series "Women in Business Talk Women in Film". The League is a ...
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