In a previous post, Madge featured one of the fashion magazines she found in a dusty pile at an estate sale. That post, How to Dress, looked at a fall issue of Glamour Magazine from the 1940s. Today we are boosting the glamour quotient with another fashion mag from the pile, the November 1966 issue...
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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...
Rudi Gernreich – The Total Look
We are updating this post to announce the passing of Peggy Moffitt at age 86 April 10, 2024.
Rudy Gernreich: The Total LookRecently Madge reported on a wonderful fashion design show, The Little Black Dress, curated by André Leon Talley at the Savannah College of Art an...
Here’s to Dad on Fathers Day
Revisiting this post and adding some more photos.Happy Father's Day to all the great dads out there.As many of you know, this blog and my vintage shop are dedicated to my maternal grandmother, Ora Madge Beals Meredith. But today I am giving a shout out to my wonderful dad – Jim Hill whom I lost in ...
Hats in the Garden
Madge and Mr. Madge headed out this weekend on a beautiful spring morning to partake in the annual Gardens for Connoisseurs tour by the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Twelve private gardens were featured, all around the Atlanta area. Madge loves gardens but since she has the blackest of green thumbs sh...
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...