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...
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.
Tod...
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...
This is an update to a post originally published November 13, 2014
Iris Apfel, My Icon of Style
"I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance
of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels.
I’ve always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things.
I lusted after costume jewelry.
My hus...
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...
Cruising through the Brazos Valley of Texas on FM128 Madge was startled by a curious sign along the highway - Dime Box Museum.
She was hurrying back to Austin to catch a flight after attending an August graduation at Texas A & M in College Station. As she pulled of...