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, ...

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 ...