Jenna Sisselman was looking for a job to keep her busy while her two young sons were in school, so in 2003 she started a business out of her Cape Elizabeth home selling summer clothing made from the ...

FALL RIVER — There was a moment in American history when madras cloth was the king of style. You would go to church and twin boys wore matching madras shirts, their father wore a madras sport coat, ...

The secret to its success? The original Original Madras Trading Company has been in the game for five decades, since the grandfather of present owner Prasan Shah emigrated from Chennai to New York ...

For such a lightweight cloth, madras is weighed down with cultural associations. Most famously, it’s the summertime fabric of choice for the summer-on-the-Cape set, who prize it for its bold colors ...

On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the border depicts a fabric ...