Tadashi Shoji is a Japanese fashion designer based in Los Angeles. His typical clientele is women who do not fit into sample size garments, typical of many designers. Most notably he has designed for Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe.
What I liked about Shoji is how he seems to design dresses to fit women, while I feel that generally dresses are designed and then women must fit into them. Which made me think about Madcapz.
I started Madcapz because I needed a baseball cap to fit my head and my sense of style (see Our Story for a more detailed explanation of this). If someone had said, you just need to change the shape of your head so that you can fit perfectly into a man’s baseball cap, and you should just deal with the fact that you don’t like the designs, we would consider that person completely crazy or trying to sell some bizarre head reshaping surgery. Yet, this is what we do with clothes. Larger than a size 10? Here’s a sack, it only comes in black- black is slimming after all.
Shoji’s dresses are stunning, and the women wearing them also look stunning, and very comfortable in what they’re wearing. That, in my opinion, is how all fashion should be.
Do you like Shoji’s dresses? Did you like Spencer’s dress at the Oscars?
Ah the elusive Mother’s Day Gift. Somewhere between a nice card and something that costs however much you think your life is worth. It was definitely easier when you could just draw her a picture and it would make her cry.
Click here for great examples of Mother’s Day gifts, as shown on ABC 15 Arizona’s Sonoran Living Live Show:
Whether your mother can run circles around you, enjoys long walks around her neighborhood, or simply needs a hat to block out the sun when she sits on the porch, Madcapz has a woman’s baseball hat for you (or a woman’s visor). (I recommend any of ourPink Hats in particular for Mother’s day- unless of course your mother strongly hates the color pink).
Madcapzare also great to pair with other gifts. Like if you got her a cruise, you could also give her an Ocean Madcapz, or if you got her a tennis racket, you could also give her a Serve n’ Volley Madcapz or if you gave her a Safari, you could also give her a EZ Zebra Madcapz (I don’t really recommend that pairing, your mother might assume you intend to leave her with the other zebras, but the hat by itself is great!).
What have been your most successful Mother’s Day gifts? You’re least successful? If you’re a mother, what is your ideal Mother’s Day?
A Little Dot’ll Do Ya Madcapz is watermelon colored and the white flecks kind of look like white seeds so I automatically think of eating watermelon, and summer, and picnics, and watermelon juice running down my cheek an staining my white dress. I really like watermelon, but don’t worry, this post won’t be my musings on the giant fruit, instead it’s on…
7 Fictional People Who Would Never Wear This Hat But Would Be Much Happier If They Would (yeah, it’s a ridiculously long title, what of it?)
1. Sherlock Holmes: How cool would it be if he ran around the British countryside in a Madcapz? Maybe if everyone thought of him as liking this cheerful cap, people would come to him to solve problems that didn’t involve murder.
2. Cruella De Vil: Who needs puppy coats when spots can look this good on a pink Madcapz?
3. Betty Draper: She makes me sad. I just want someone to put her in a watermelon colored cap and make her smile.
4. Captain Ahab: It’s easy to get sun burned on a boat. He could use a hat. Maybe after seeing this hat he would become obsessed with Madcapz, which is far less dangerous than a giant whale.
5. Maggie the Cat: Ok, so this Cat on a Hot Tin Roof character would probably be doomed to a life of unhappiness with or without this woman’s fashion accessory (this is a Tennessee Williams play after all). But, the sun is awfully strong in Mississippi, and she could really use a hat. And as a very fashionable woman, she would know how cute A Little Dot’ll Do Ya Madcapz is.
6. Lady Macbeth: Out out damn spot-wait what are those little spots on my baseball cap? Oh those aren’t spots at all, those are just cute rain dropped shape flecks. I’m happy now. If only I’d had this hat before I killed that guy. Oh well.
7. Snow White’s Evil Stepmother: Do we even know her name? Anyway, if she had this woman’s baseball hat, maybe she’d have spent more time taking long walks through the forest with the huntsman, rather than trying to kill Snow White.
I know that Easter was eight days ago, but I just ran across this article/slide show about New York’s Easter Bonnet Parade, and it was too good to not share with you.
Click here for the slide show from the Bonnet Parade: BONNET PARADE
These men and woman’s fashion accessories range from normal to fashion show weird to why would you think to put that on your head. And to be honest, they tend toward the stranger end of the spectrum.
Which brings me to my question of the day (I don’t really have questions of the day but that sounded better than question of some arbitrary unit of time), if there were no such thing as “fashionable,” how would we dress? If no one told us that the woman’s hat shows in the picture above was not a good look, would we go around dressing like that?
I think that we would actually go the other way. If there was no fashion world, we’d probably just cut out two arm holes and a head hole in a pillow case and wear that around. I think the notion of fashionably keeps up wearing the more ridiculous, as opposed to stopping us.
Does what’s fashionable influence how you dress or are you a pillow case kind of gal? Somewhere in between? Do you like the Easter bonnets?
Click here to read an article on the August National Golf Club that will annoy you: No Women Allowed
I’m beginning to think that we have gone back in time. We have somehow ended up in the 1950’s, where all women should be secretaries, who make less money than men, and never even contemplate playing golf.
The news has been flooded with discussions of birth control and the right to choose. I’m not talking about these more lofty subjects (which should really be more about religion’s place in government and the right to privacy than the so called “war on women”). I’m talking about a woman’s right to join a golf club.
The August National Golf Club does not allow women to be members. They didn’t allow black members either until 1990, claiming that as a private institution they did not have to, so I suppose there is a fair amount of outrage to go around.
You see, when women join clubs, the men at those clubs must stop staying things they wouldn’t say in front of women. Which they shouldn’t be saying anyway, because those things are probably demeaning to women.
I’m aware this isn’t the most important issue we’re facing as a society. Admittance to a private golf club isn’t exactly what the women’s rights movement was fighting for. But in a way it is. It’s the little things that measure how far society has come. A female president would be great and all, but does that matter if women still aren’t being paid as much as men for the same job?
Admittance into a golf club should be a given. I would have thought we were pay past this point, which brings me back to my first thought. I’m beginning to think that we have gone back in time.
What do you think? Am I overreacting? As a private institution, should the August National Club be allowed to do whatever they want?
2. Scientists pick really strange ways to study the human brain. I mean, have you ever read about an experiment and thought, why on earth would you ever think to do that? I’m sure there is some sort of science rational that I’m just not privy to. Actually, I’m not that sure (for the reason behind this, please see point 1.)
Ok, with my two cents out of the way, click here to a read a really cool article on how wearing a doctor’s coat affects the way your brain functions: Doctors’ Coats Effect on Brain Function
In case you don’t have time to read the article, here’s a quick summary. Scientists divided people into three groups. The first group was told to wear a white coat that they were told belonged to a doctor. The second group was told to wear a white coat that they were told belonged to a painter (the coat was identical to that of the “doctor’s coat”). The third group was told to notice a white doctor’s coat. The groups were then tested for sustained attention. The group that wore the “doctor’s coat” showed the greatest improvement in attention.
Of course, this begs the questions, how much does it have to do with the coat? Would wearing a random fashion accessory that a doctor wore have any affect, or does it have to be something mentally equated with a doctor? Does it have to be a doctor? Would wearing a professor’s tweed coat do anything? Would wearing an athlete’s baseball cap have any effect on your ability to throw a fast ball? Yes, the answer to last question is probably no, but it might increase your confidence.
All of this brings me back to my initial point, the human brain is bizarre.
What do you think of the study? Will you be stealing a doctor’s coat the next time you really need to concentrate?
Click here for more information on Bald friend of Barbie: Bald Barbie
I feel like Barbie is often equated with everything evil about women’s body image. Completely disproportional, if she was life size, supposedly, she would not be able to stand upright, and would have to crawl around on all fours. It probably wouldn’t help that her feet aren’t flat, and she could only walk around on her tip toes. While I have my doubts that Barbie is a particularly responsible for little girls feeling bad about the way they looks, it is nice to see her name pop up in a story where she might make someone feel better about themself.
A few facts: Mattel decided to make this doll based on a social media campaign by parents, to help sick children deal with the hair loss cancer patients suffer from. The doll will not be available in stores; they will instead be donated to children’s hospitals. The doll, “a friend of Barbie,” will come with wigs, scarves, hats and other fashion accessories.
I kind of wish they would sell them at stores or online so that children struggling with hair loss but not in the hospital could still have access to the dolls. But I’m glad that Mattel is making this step!
What do you think of Barbie’s bald friend? Do you think the doll will help children deal with hair loss?
So maybe you are a really great athlete. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re basically a pro tennis player. Maybe you just play for fun with your kids. No matter what, Serve n’ Volley Madcapz is a great hat for you. Don’t believe me? Here are 6 reasons wearing this woman’s baseball hat is easier than actually playing tennis:
1. Wearing this woman’s hat requires no eye hand coordination (well I suppose it requires eye head coordination, because you have to actually put it on your head).
2. You don’t actually have to be a tennis player, you can just wear this fashion accessory and people will assume you are.
3. No running required.
4. You will look great in this woman’s baseball hat, not matter how you look in your tennis whites.
5. The hat blocks you from the sun, instead of forcing you to play in it.
6. While you can only play tennis on the court, you can wear Serve n’ Volley Madcapz anywhere.
I don’t usually notice wigs on actors. Maybe it’s that they’re put on well. Maybe it’s that I assume that people with full heads of hair would just use their hair. Maybe I’m an idiot. But actors use wigs more often than I’m aware of, whether it’s cause the character has to have a radically different hair style only for one scene, or because the actor has multiple engagements going on simultaneous that require different hair styles, or simply because the actor doesn’t want to damage their hair with constant styling.
Click here for an interesting article on wigs in television and movies: WIGS
AtMadcapz, we know that some of our costumers suffer from hair loss, and while you may choose a woman’s baseball cap in lieu of a wig (or in conjunction with), I’m guessing both options will have crossed your mind. So when I see articles about wigs, I tend to assume that they will have to do with hair loss. It was interesting to read about wigs from a completely different perspective.
However, I think how comfortable a person is in his/her wig is an issue that both people suffering from hair loss and actors have to deal with. The most interesting point in the article was the fact that the writer’s take on which actors felt the most comfortable in the wigs, and how it affected the writer’s view of the performance. Feeling comfortable is probably the most difficult part of wearing a wig, as well as the best way to make people forget you are wearing a wig. At Madcapz, we try to make our woman’s baseball caps as comfortable as possible so you will feel your best wearing them.
What did you think of the article? Did you know all of the actors listed in it were wearing a wig?
Madcapz are popular among women dealing with hair loss. Our caps are a great gift and perfect for breast cancer awareness events. Shop for pink caps now.
