I created Madcapz when I was losing my hair from Grave’s Disease, an autoimmune disease, and couldn’t find a fun women’s cap to wear to cover my head. Madcapz women’s caps are very popular with women experiencing hair loss from various medical conditions such as chemo, Grave’s, and Alopecia Areata. Recently, there has been some new developments in tracing the genes tied to Alopecia.

Researchers have recently linked 8 genes in the development of Alopecia. Researchers said this discovery “greatly accelerated our ability to think about new drugs for patients with alopecia. It is a huge advantage.”

You can read here for more info:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100701/hl_hsn/genestiedtohairlossdisorder

Ready…aim…

We know runners, tennis players and golfers love Madcapz, but we recently learned that archers do too.  Our newest fan, Barbara, sent this photo of her wearing her Dazzling Dahlias Madcapz! Bullseye!

Since I know nothing about the sport, I thought I’d check out the Archery basics.

The Hat Museum of Portland, Oregon. Self-described as America’s Only Hat Museum, the website blurb says it’s:

One of Oregon’s most unusual historic homes [that] has been transformed into Portland’s quirkiest attraction.

The museum is home to over 900 hats: vintage hats, women’s hats, men’s hats, novelty hats, and more!

Check it out:

Rain couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm at the More® Magazine | Fitness® Magazine Women’s Half-Marathon on Sunday, April 25. It was a sea of woman’s caps and visors making their way 13.1 miles around New York’s Central Park.

Shop Smart conducted a poll of over 1,000 women about their hair, and according to a Chicago SunTimes article, here are some results of that poll:

• 1/4 of women have cried over a bad hair cut,
• on average women wash their hair 4 times a week,
• 44% say their mood is worse when their hair doesn’t behave!

You can read more about the poll in the Chicago Sun Times article.

Hmm…maybe these women need to know about Madcapz!

Madcapz is featured in Rock Climbing News today for our partnership with the HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation.

Our partnership with the HERA Foundation was announced last week with the introduction of our HERA MADCAPZ. For every HERA Madcapz sold online, we will donate $3 to the HERA Foundation. Our donations will help HERA in their fight against ovarian cancer. You can purchase your own HERA Madcapz here:

Madcapz is proud to be a sponsor in the Moms Making A Million Mother’s Day Giveaway!

This contest is open until May 7th, 2010 with the winner of a $3500 Mother’s Day Gift Package being announced the morning of Sunday, May 9th (Happy Mother’s Day!)

This fabulous gift package includes SO many wonderful gifts – various free memberships, free services, shopping sprees, and some great products. We have donated a $40 MADCAPZ gift certificate to be used towards any MADCAPZ women’s cap or women’s visor!

And it’s so easy to enter – just join Moms Making A Million.

If you want more chances to win, simply fan our MADCAPZ Facebook Fan Page

If you want even more chances to win, fan any other sponsor’s Facebook fan page you want.

That’s it! How easy!

So, don’t delay, sign up to WIN at: Moms Making A Million Mother’s Day Giveaway!

GOOD LUCK!

We’re tired of winter. Too much snow, too cold, and too dreary.

So to brighten these last few winter weeks, we are offering FREE SHIPPING on any order of our women’s caps and women’s visors! That’s right, FREE SHIPPING!

If you’ve been meaning to buy yourself a colorful Madcapz, don’t delay, take advantage of our fabulous offer today!

Madcapz women’s caps and visors, and our kids caps have a new home!

We’re proud to announce the new look of Madcapz!

We have recently updated our site so that it is more user friendly and easier to navigate.

Take a look and tell us what you think – suggestions welcome!

People often ask me how I started my company and to be honest, if someone had told me that I would be a small business owner manufacturing women’s baseball caps at this stage of my life, I’m not sure I would have believed her.

But Madcapz arose from a need I had that couldn’t be filled. I was a stay at home to my two great kids when I was diagnosed with Grave’s Disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects your thyroid, which in turn affects every aspect of you. I was very selfconscious about my hair loss (a symptom of Grave’s Disease), so I wanted to wear a cap when I went out. I love the comfortable fit of baseball caps but wanted one that was feminine, fun, and colorful. I wanted a women’s baseball cap to wear that would make me feel great and look fabulous! I scoured the malls, catalogs, and online sites, and couldn’t find what I was looking for, so decided to make them myself.

And that is how Madcapz was created!