Easter Hats History: From Simple Bonnets to Extravagant Headwear
Hats Magazine, March 1951
An elaborate 1920s Mantillaarchivio personale, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Easter Hat HistoryEaster Sunday signals a time of renewal and new b...
Category: Livin’ La Vida Vintage
International Women’s Day – Who’s Your Inspiration?
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 Sod House to Cloche: The Women In Madge’s World
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...
A Classic Hollywood Toast to 2026
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...
Five Tips To Find Your Perfect Vintage Handbag
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 ...
Dietrich, Hepburn, Keaton – Actresses Who Made Menswear Chic
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 ...