February 24, 2021 • 36 mins
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Miss Pinup Miami (00:03):
Good day and welcome back to the pin podcast
on episode number 37. At the pinpodcast, we talk about modern
topics with a vintage flair. I'myour host Pinup Miami. And if
it's your first time listeningto the podcast, welcome, I hope
that you stay. And if you're areturning listener, I love you
guys so much. Thank you so muchfor listening for your text for
(00:24):
your questions for our guests. Iappreciate it so much, so much
more than you can think of ifyou're not following us on
Instagram, the handle is apinned podcast official, or mine
is Pinup Miami, and you couldalso send us a text to 183348
pinup.
Today's episode, I just want tomake one announcement of the
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pinned calendar applications arestill open. So if you're willing
to come to South Florida andbecome a model, a panel for a
day and be part of the pinkcalendar, it's my baby project
that I work in all year. Thisyear I'll be making all the
outfits you don't need anyexperience hair and makeup what
we done those photographer sojust apply at the pin calendar
calm and I look forward to yourapplication. Today we're gonna
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take it back to like glamourHalloween times. I even brought
out if you're watching us onYouTube. I brought out my decor
from my room says glamour girlbecause we have a glamour girl
in the house as she's a YouTubera plus size pinup model. A
vintage glamour girl. Her nameis Mitch monster. How are you? I
(01:34):
am great. How are you doing? I'mdoing great. I even was tempted
to put on green lights for you.
Oh yes.
How did you get the name um, Iwanted to put together kind of a
name that just explained who Iwas. And I've always been a big
fan of the show the monsters andMaryland monsters character who
(01:58):
was kind of pretty on theoutside the spooky on the
inside. And I feel like that wasreally who I am as a person. And
Mitch came from the marvelousMrs. nasal because she's a funny
woman and I'm a funny woman. AndI kind of smush two things
together that I felt like justtold the story of what I what it
is I do here. Are you secretly astand up comic?
Midge (02:20):
I actually. Yeah, I used to do a lot of comedy and
improv. I don't so much anymoresince I've been working stiff.
But I do really enjoy doingcomedy. Yeah. Hey, you never
know you could go back to it.
Hopefully I would love to be sofun. You should have a cameo in
marvelous Miss Mazal you comeout. I would plot study.
Unknown (02:46):
be amazing.
Miss Pinup Miami (02:47):
So tell us a little bit about yourself. You
started while your YouTubereally went off last year.
Midge (02:52):
Ah, it took off out of nowhere. And
thank you if you're one of myamazing people watching this or
listening to this. Yeah, I so Ihad been on YouTube for probably
three and a half years or moreand doing vintage stuff, you
know, hair and thrifting andthat kind of thing. And I think
I was really trying tofit a mold of you know, kind of
(03:15):
these other really elegant funlike cute sweet pinups, which
are amazing people, but it'salso just not who I am. And I
think I had an idea of what apinup was. And I was really
trying to be that person. Andthen actually, during
quarantine, there was this trendthat went around it was called
quarantine a ween in March, itwas like the halfway to
(03:37):
Halloween mark and a bunch ofpeople on Instagram, were you
know, dressing up and putting uptheir Halloween decorations just
for something to make them happywhile they were in lockdown. And
of course, I hopped on thattrain faster than I've ever
jumped on anything in my life.
And I made a Halloween video formy youtube channel in March. And
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people really liked it. And Ihad so much fun, I had more fun
making that video than I had hadin three years doing YouTube.
And so I kind of took a stepback and reevaluate it and was
like, You know what, maybe Ineed to be being true to myself
making the content I want tomake. And so I started doing
like Halloween decor huntingvideos and things like that all
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through the summer. And it just,it blew up overnight. I mean, I
say blew up. It's I think I'vegot like 7000 people but you
know, when I started with 300and went to like 17 Yeah, it was
over a couple of months. And Iwas like, okay, sweet. So I feel
like I found my niche now. And Ilove it. I love it so much.
Miss Pinup Miami (04:41):
And the best part is that you're yourself.
Midge (04:43):
Yeah, are you I'm friendly. I'm just being my
truest me which is all we canall we can do, right? Yeah.
Miss Pinup Miami (04:52):
Go. Have you ever had like what what has been
your favorite Halloween costumethat you've done? Oh, man.
Midge (05:00):
Ah, I really loved oh dang, I've had so I mean, man
probably I mean from when I waslike a kid I really used to
dress up as Jessie from ToyStory which I love. And I am I
am a bottle redhead but any likeredheaded character I like when
(05:22):
is Fiona from Shrek I wanted tobe a redhead so bad when I was a
kid. Now later in my life, butyeah, in the last few years, my
husband and I went to SweeneyTodd a couple years, like so. A
couple years after we starteddating, and I made those
costumes. That was really reallyfun. I liked that one.
Miss Pinup Miami (05:43):
Oh, that's amazing. I love um, I do the
same thing. Well, now that Ihave yellow hair, I always
styled my hair like characterswith my hair color. Like when I
go to dapper day. I'll do like aTinkerbell inspired.
Midge (05:56):
Yeah, well, because you have the best hair on the
internet. By the way. I probablystarted following you like two
and a half years ago or so. AndI remember the first picture I
saw of you and I was like thehair mama the hair. Oh, it's
like a beacon calling out to allof us.
Miss Pinup Miami (06:17):
During quarantine, I really let my in
between routes going through butpeople know. I'm not a natural
headlight. No, but that's athat's why I started doing
workshops about three years ago.
I'm just teaching hands on. Idon't do professional hair
makeup. But I love teachingpeople how to do it in real
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life.
Midge (06:41):
Yeah, that's when you clearly know what you're doing
the proof in the pudding or inthe victory role, I should say.
Miss Pinup Miami (06:47):
A little side hustle here. So you mentioned
the vintage community thatthey're very, I've noticed a
change. I've been in Pinal for along time. I've noticed a change
that everything is going alittle more glam. I don't know.
Yeah, same way.
Midge (07:04):
Definitely. Definitely.
Yeah, people are very muchtrending more. Well, two things
kind of that old Hollywoodglamour. And then like the kind
of Jane Austen II cottage corevintage, like the more historic
Regency vintage. And yeah, butI, when I got started, and I'm
sure when you got started, itwas a lot more catchy and
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rockabilly.
Miss Pinup Miami (07:27):
Yeah, that's what I love. And I love
pinstriping and like rock andswing dancing, driving. But
yeah, I noticed such a shift.
And then I don't understand. Imean, I understand it, because
glamour is timeless. And we bothcould dress up glam. I know.
Midge (07:46):
Yes, we can do it, we can do it more. But there's
Miss Pinup Miami (07:49):
like a divide in some circles that people Oh,
you only could be one way or youcould be this way. And I feel
like you could be both.
Midge (07:57):
Yeah, the vintage community can be very, it's very
strange, because it's in someway so inclusive. And I mean, I
think that's an I may bespeaking out of turn here for
both of us. But I mean, that'skind of why I came here is
because my body doesn't looklike other peoples and I felt
welcomed by this style and thepeople and I've never felt like
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I had to be anything else here.
But then there are a lot ofpurists, I think about what
Unknown (08:25):
the word.
Midge (08:26):
Yeah, what the word pinup means what the word vintage
means. Yeah, there's definitelysome people who like if you
didn't actually buy it from a1950s warehouse than you.
Miss Pinup Miami (08:43):
And I've seen that I've had girls that come to
my meetup. Well, beforequarantine, they'll be like, I
can't go because I don't have avintage dress. I'm like, Girl,
there's people that come injeans and a T shirt rocking it
and just because they love this,they haven't seen passion you
don't need
Midge (09:01):
Yeah, and I think there's definitely a you know, kind of a
thought that you have to spend alot of money and like be like,
you know, look perfect all thetime. And like that. I don't, I
don't know, I've never felt thatpressure. I think it you know,
it just it comes kind of as youas you go, I started very basic.
(09:24):
I had like, address and likesome scarves that I wrapped in
my hair. And I was like
Unknown (09:29):
I'm a pinup now.
Miss Pinup Miami (09:32):
That's all you need. And that little bit of
confidence is a great
Midge (09:36):
attitude. It's the attitude.
Miss Pinup Miami (09:38):
I think it's just people when you first
start, it's intimidating. I feellike it's just grown a little
more now. And it's intimidatingand I just think people just
need to relax and just start offwith a scarf and a skirt and
Midge (09:52):
put on some red lipstick or whatever Coco Chanel said.
Miss Pinup Miami (09:56):
And I agree with what you said about
implicit oh my gosh, Englishinclusivity Oh my god, I can't
say the word
Unknown (10:04):
inclusivity Yes, that, that.
Miss Pinup Miami (10:09):
That's another reason why I got into the pinup
communities because the skirtswere very flattering. And that's
why I started sewing because Icouldn't go to the thrift store
and get true vintage. So I juststarted out doing my own stuff.
But you do you make stuff.
Midge (10:22):
I do. I so I'm, I'm very, I'm a novice seamstress I, I
work well, I used to be verygood. I worked in a costume
shop. My background is intheater. And I worked in a
costume shop for several years.
And it was like some of the bestyears of my life Honestly, I
love that even just for playsand stuff. So historical, and
made a lot of like really cool.
(10:45):
Like Regency garments andVictorian and Georgian of cool
stuff. Wow. And I mean, I reallyenjoyed that. Sometimes more
than acting, which was like my,my passion, you know, but I
really found a love for sewingdoing that. And then I kind of
fell out of it when I graduatedcollege, and I've just been
(11:05):
lost. This is one of my goalsfor this year is to get back
into it. And I've started sewingagain and I I do love it so
much.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:14):
Yeah, you can match. You could do more
costumes and match all yourvideos and
Midge (11:22):
everything.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:23):
Yeah, that's what I do. I'm actually now
trying to figure out how toeither sell my stuff but then
you love them because you madethem. Yeah. Or how to store them
because during quarantine myboyfriend moved in and I had to
give them one of my closets.
Yes. I'm working on that.
Midge (11:42):
My husband learned his lesson he he doesn't have a
closet anymore.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:46):
Ah, that's what I have to do. I gotta tell
Midge (11:49):
he's got a couple really nice dressers.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:52):
I'll give him all my dresses. I don't really
use my dresses just for like, Ijust have a drawer of hair
flowers. I'll just hang them up.
Girls hang them up really cuteon I have ribbons. Yeah, that's
the way that's adorable. Haveyou had any like body shaming
when you started doing YouTube?
Or?
Midge (12:14):
surprisingly not. And I don't know if I'm just not big
enough yet. For the whole I'mplenty big. Let's be clear, but
I'm not at that level yet wherepeople are coming after me. But
I I've never really yeah, in thevintage community. I've never
really experienced anyonespecifically coming at me about
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my weight. But I think too,that, you know, part of that is
just being comfortable with itat this point. Like I I think I
got called fat more when I wasthin because I was insecure
about my body than I do now.
Because I'm, I'm fine with it.
It's like what are you going tosay?
Miss Pinup Miami (12:55):
That's interesting. I never heard you
like plain out like that. Yeah,I
Midge (12:59):
mean, like when I was, you know, maybe 165 pounds. I
think I had more people makecomments about my weight then.
Just because I think I wasshowing that I was afraid of
being called fat. And now I'mlike, I know I'm fat. You don't
have to tell me like
Miss Pinup Miami (13:19):
that family supportive.
Midge (13:21):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, my, I think we, you know,
just the time we grew up into itwas a time that was very, I
mean, first of all for femaleidentifying people in general it
has always been an issue youknow, that we're made to feel
like we have to be fed.
Miss Pinup Miami (13:39):
Well, that's why I asked you about family cuz
growing up and my family. I'vealways been the big girl. Yeah,
in my family. It was always seemterrible. To this day. It's seen
as terrible. I'm one time.
Sorry. I'm digressing from yourends. Oh, no. But one time I
thought I made dresses for afashion show. And I invited my
parents they didn't want to gothen they finally came. And at
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the end of the show my dad hesaid it in Spanish because they
only speak Spanish but he goesOh, I thought this was a fast
show for fat women. I was likeis that All you think about is
like I have big
Midge (14:16):
goals and you can leave
Miss Pinup Miami (14:21):
all like I'm not inviting him ever again.
Midge (14:23):
Oh my goodness. Yeah. No, I mean, I wouldn't say
supportive as the word. I mean,I think my mother struggled with
her weight her whole life andshe was worried that I would go
through the same thing she wentthrough and I think it really
came from a place of love. Butshe did talk a lot about weight
not not not even necessarily myweight but just weight a lot in
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general. And I actually wasn't abig child. I was very thin. I
was a dancer. I was. I mean Iwas pretty. I was always big
like tall and big bone but Iwasn't ever heavy. Until All
later, and, you know, puberty.
And I think I probably startedyo yo dieting when I was like
(15:07):
11. And just out of that seed inmy head that had been planted
that said, like, you need to notlet yourself be fat. And I mean,
and then I just spent years,years and years and years being
less happy than I could havebeen. And it makes me really
sad. Now, when I look back atpictures of myself from that
(15:29):
time, and I was like, I wasn'tbig, I wasn't big. But like, I
was so obsessed with the factthat I thought I was huge. And I
spent so much time thinking likefat was the worst thing you
could be. And then collegehappened, and I, you know, I've
got some medical stuff and whathave you and I gained like 65
(15:51):
pounds in a year. And I reallylike, thought my life was over,
for lack of a better word, andlike I but then it happened. And
nothing happened. Like nothingchanged. You know, I my friends
still loved me, my, my familystill loved me, my husband, and
now now husband or boyfriend atthe time still loved me. Like, I
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was still booking gigs. I wasstill like, I was still me, I
was just taking up more space.
And I think in a weird way,gaining all that weight was the
best thing that ever happened tome. Because it like freed me
from that mindset. And thensuddenly, I wasn't afraid to
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take up space anymore, you know,and now at my heaviest, I'm
happier now than I have everbeen. And I really think that
the like, becoming fat kind offreed me from the prison of diet
culture and thinking that I hadto be something on your
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confidence. Yeah, I mean, I'mjust I'm, I'm so happy now that
I can just I used to hatelooking at myself in pictures.
And I'm like, why? Like now Isee myself. I'm like, Damn,
cute. Like,
Miss Pinup Miami (17:08):
we need to make a mirror that has you in
the reflection so that you couldjust type up all the girls like
Yeah, that would be cool. Butit's amazing to hear that it's
like the remote. Most peoplewould think it's all a mental
game. Most people will thinkthat when you're skinny, you'd
be your happiest because you'reskinny. But it's I love hearing
(17:30):
that story because it's not itwasn't just about the it's not
about the weight. It was moreabout finding your confidence.
Yeah, just so happens to be theopposite of what you thought
about girl.
Midge (17:41):
No, absolutely. And I think like a lot of times like I
said we make ourselves prisonersin our own mind thinking that we
can only be this one thing andthat's the only way people will
accept us. And it's just not thecase like if you own who you are
at any weight you know anyanything any gender race like
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anything you own who you are andbring it competently people
respond to that. And I I just Idon't know, it's exhausting.
It's it's not worth the energyto try to pretend to be
something you're not.
Miss Pinup Miami (18:16):
Now look at you glowing smiling every time
you have your videos. You'realways like, you could feel that
confidence through the screen.
Midge (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I am.
I'm happy. I'm very happy now. Ithink it's, you know, everybody
listening, stop apologizing fortaking up space in this world in
any way. Whether it's physicallymentally, you know, women who
are loud, be loud, like, juststop apologizing. Because at the
end of the day, like, like Isaid, I spent so much time being
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less happy than I could havebeen. And why like don't do that
to yourself be happy now.
Miss Pinup Miami (18:55):
Well said ditto.
Midge (18:59):
Cosine,
Miss Pinup Miami (19:00):
cosine and Pinup Miami. So, Mitch, do you
have any future projects thatyou're working on that you could
or any like video ideas, youcould sneak peek? And
Midge (19:13):
yes, I'm actually working on a very exciting collaboration
right now. It's been many, manymonths in the making. And it's
speaking of sewing actually. Andso like I said, one of my goals
for myself this year was to getback into sewing and one of the
things I wanted to do was tokind of challenge myself to
recreate outfits from some of myfavorite television shows in a
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row like on a plus size body.
And one of those shows that Ireally really love is called
Pushing Daisies. Oh my gosh,
Miss Pinup Miami (19:46):
I love that.
I'm crazy when I say that showthat it's like musical and I had
the girlfriend wiki that waslike
Midge (19:54):
it was the best show was only on for like two seasons.
I've owned it on DVD since I waslike 12 I love that show got
canceled after a couple seasonsdidn't get its due at all. If
you don't know the show, it'sabout a, it's just the most
aesthetic. I mean, you canattest to this like it's a
static show ever. It'sbeautifully shot. And it's about
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a pie maker who has the abilityto touch people who are dead and
bring them back to life. But hecan only bring him back to life
for a minute. And then he has totouch them again. So they go
back to being dead or somebodyelse has to take their place.
And then he can never touch themagain if they're like, alive.
And so he ends up like touchinghis childhood sweetheart who is
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found dead and he can't bringhimself to put her back so they
can never touch again. And he'sjust living his life with his
dead childhood sweetheart andit's adorable. And the woman has
a sweetheart Her name isCharlotte Charles or Chuck and
all her fashion is very vintageyvery vintage II I like I blame
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that show for my first likewhisperings of the vintage like
oh my God, this the colors andthe hair and the the designs and
oh my gosh. And so I reallywanted to recreate some of her
outfit some of chucks, outfits.
And I had posted something aboutthis on Instagram, and a another
lovely plus size pen up Jen at avintage vanity. And who is also
(21:24):
a pretty good, has a pretty hugepresence on YouTube. Actually.
She reached out to me and waslike, Oh my god, I love that
show.
Can we work on this together.
And so Jen and I are doing aPushing Daisies collaboration
right now, that'll come outprobably about a week after you
guys are listening to this. Sokeep an eye on that because it
(21:46):
is we're doing vintage takes onsome of the different outfits
from that show. And it's gonnabe really, really fun.
Miss Pinup Miami (21:54):
Make sure you guys follow her at Mitch monster
on YouTube.
Unknown (21:57):
Yay.
Miss Pinup Miami (21:59):
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to see that.
Midge (22:02):
I'm excited. I'm also extremely intimidated because
Jen is like a pro seamstress.
And I'm like, just just gettingback in the saddle. And I was
like, yeah, I'll make a wholedress. That seems like a great
idea.
Miss Pinup Miami (22:17):
I believe in you could do it. You have the
motivation with the show and thecollaboration, you're gonna pull
it through and make somethingincredible.
Midge (22:24):
I think I think it's gonna be really fun. It's going
well so far. So let's see.
Miss Pinup Miami (22:30):
Alright, so I have a couple questions that
were sent to me on Instagram.
What is one thing you wish youhad known before you started
YouTube?
Midge (22:42):
I wish someone had told me to get my rear end gear and
just do it. Honestly, and that'smy advice. Anytime somebody asks
me like, what my advice is,we're starting a YouTube
channel, do it, you're alwaysgoing to have things you wish
were better. You're going towish you had a better camera.
Wish you had better soundequipment, better lights, better
(23:04):
editing software, it neverstops. And even now, with the
upgrades I've made in the lasttwo years, I still have things I
wish I was better at. I mean,I'm completely self taught. I
didn't know how to edit a videowhen I started doing YouTube.
But you're never going to getany better unless you start
doing it. And, you know, it'slike, yeah, sure I watch things
(23:25):
I made three years ago and Icringe. But I, I I wouldn't
trade it. You know, like you youlearn and you grow and you find
who you are along the way. And Ithink you know, I just wish
someone would have been like,just do it. Just if you want to
do it, do it because you couldhave been doing it all this time
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and having fun and you Whydidn't you do it? That's the
theme of the podcast. You couldhave been happier all this time.
Just do what you want to do liveyour dreams. That's how
Miss Pinup Miami (23:57):
I was when I podcast I started with just my
cell phone.
Midge (24:00):
Yeah. Ba is this by the way,
Unknown (24:03):
like
Midge (24:04):
you're rocking it. I love that you have a podcast. This is
something I like wish I had theskills for this is so cool.
Miss Pinup Miami (24:10):
This is when I say Just do it. Spooky podcast.
Oh my god, they're full podcastwith me.
Midge (24:17):
I do all the ways actually. I'm all the guests. I
just do different voices. Todaywe're talking to a British
ghost. I'm like, oh no my
Miss Pinup Miami (24:28):
stories. My boyfriend loves listening to
like this podcast. I forgot thepodcast name that it's literally
just storytelling. And it couldbe different voices. There you
go.
Midge (24:38):
That's true. That's true.
Miss Pinup Miami (24:40):
Next, I have here your favorite horror movie,
I'm sure.
Midge (24:45):
Yeah, I guess it kind of depends on like sub genre within
horror.
Miss Pinup Miami (24:51):
Go for a campy horror, Hampi or Yeah,
Midge (24:54):
I mean, I love a slasher film. I love I love the original
Halloween. I love screens. Yeah,I love Evil Dead if you want
something really campy as far asclassics Bride of Frankenstein
hands down, just like good old gbase horror classic.
Miss Pinup Miami (25:16):
I love Hellraiser. Oh, Nightmare on Elm
Street
Midge (25:21):
A fun fact my uncle Mark Patton is Jesse in the second
Nightmare on Elm Street. Themain the main character in that
movie so I like I grew up onthat franchise because my family
is of the of the world of ElmStreet.
Miss Pinup Miami (25:40):
That's all I was about to say. People don't
know this about me because theysee like all my colorful pinup
stuff, but my back room has a50s diner, but the rest of it is
all my horror memorabilia. So Ihave ever England with like the
from America lesson. That's whyI have that because somebody
gifted it to me.
Unknown (26:00):
Oh my gosh.
Miss Pinup Miami (26:02):
And then I have mannequins and skeletons.
It's just weird, but it's cute.
Midge (26:06):
We're like, you're you're one of us. You're coated in
sugar, but you cut it open. It'sjust pure Gore.
Miss Pinup Miami (26:12):
Yes. What are your top three shopping stores
for vintage slash repro.
Midge (26:20):
Ooh, okay. Well, locally, I have a shop in town called
retro vixen. I'm going to givethem a shout out because you can
also shop with them online. Andthey are my they're my ladies.
They're my ride or die. I boughtmy first vintage dress vintage
style dress at their store whenI was in high school and never
looked back. And they're verysize inclusive, which I've
(26:42):
always appreciated. And as faras brands like shopping online
vixen by Michelin Pitt who I'mwearing today, and one of my all
time favorites and she does lotsof kooky spooky things as well
which I you know, obviously Iprint awesome. Oh, they're so
good. And the sizing is just sotasty. And she also has a sister
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company called La Femme en Noir.
I shop all their stuff as well.
And then probably like hellbunny I guess they have really
good Really I just anything sizeinclusive hell bunny retro
delicious. sourpuss like if youwant fun printed rockabilly,
good time dresses. that's thoseare the places to go.
Miss Pinup Miami (27:24):
And like summer posts, I've never tried a
vixen. Vintage vixen.
Midge (27:29):
Mama, you would look so good and everything they do. You
got to do it. Have to try. I
Miss Pinup Miami (27:34):
haven't tried that one.
Midge (27:37):
And if you're listening, please sponsor me. I'm your
biggest fan.
Unknown (27:42):
I tell everyone
Miss Pinup Miami (27:44):
to be a guest and then I'll drop your name.
Unknown (27:48):
Like Mitch will not shut up about you.
Miss Pinup Miami (27:52):
What is your favorite makeup palette?
Midge (27:55):
Ooh. Oh, here we go.
You're ready.
Miss Pinup Miami (27:58):
It's right there. It's a better reach.
Midge (28:01):
So I just got this I did a YouTube video with it.
Actually, this is the meltcosmetics recently deceased
Beetlejuice palette.
Miss Pinup Miami (28:10):
I like their eyeshadows Yeah.
Midge (28:13):
Yeah, it's a it's all just like spooky greens and
purples. And I love it. I'mactually i'm not i wasn't I was
never a big eyeshadow girl. Andjust like this last year, I
think because of the masksbecause lipsticks always been my
go to. And so I think like withwearing a mask, I was like, Oh,
I gotta I gotta do something uphere to make it pap. And so I
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bought a whole bunch ofeyeshadow. And now that's a
thing I do,
Unknown (28:40):
apparently.
Miss Pinup Miami (28:42):
Do you have any tips for thrifting and being
plus size?
Midge (28:47):
Ooh, it's rough. I mean, there's just no way around that.
And I'm sure you know, too. Likeit's just rough
Miss Pinup Miami (28:52):
measure.
Unknown (28:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Midge (28:56):
But I think Be on the lookout for Well, I guess you
know, first of all, learn to sewplease do it. Just do it. Learn
to even if it's just a tailorand mend, like learn learn
basics of selling. And then beon the lookout for things that
are really big that you can likemake look cool. Like there's a
lot of kind of like 80s does.
40s 80s does 50s kind of stuffout there, which it's more like
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sack shaped than the 50s and40s. But you can taper like the
waist and things very easily andmake some really cute vintage
style dresses out of things thatare kind of ugly.
Miss Pinup Miami (29:36):
My tip I always tell like girls to look
at the mother of the bride likeon poshmark or eBay. And I've
got an incredible things forlike the Art Deco weekend and
yeah, especially if you do likewhat you do, like if you are,
you know doing a lot of pinupcontests and things. Yeah,
that's a great way to find gownsfor stuff. I love them. So I'm
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over the contest. I just hostedNow
Midge (30:02):
you got that gig, you just get to stand there and look
beautiful and talk.
Miss Pinup Miami (30:08):
I will one day maybe one day I all my friends
want me to try to go to Viva LasVegas.
Midge (30:12):
Girl, I'm trying to go this year or they moved it to my
birthday weekend. And I'm like,well
Miss Pinup Miami (30:21):
have a cocktail night and then you do
like stand up.
Unknown (30:25):
Oh my god.
Miss Pinup Miami (30:26):
We'll do our own.
Unknown (30:29):
We're gonna pay to watch that. I'm sure you can
host
Miss Pinup Miami (30:35):
a host and I'll bring you on stage.
Midge (30:37):
And then you could like blew me off when it's when it's
really rusty.
Miss Pinup Miami (30:41):
No, no, just go everyone out. Hi, do you have
any questions for me?
Midge (30:50):
For you? All of them. I mean, I guess just, I, this is
our first time interacting likeIRL, which is crazy because I
feel like I've been aware of youfor so long. But like what well,
first of all, what is the pinupscene like, in my I feel like
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you guys have a great likevintage scene. I live in a I
live in a Midwestern state. I amone of like eight vintage women
in this whole damn city.
Miss Pinup Miami (31:21):
Well, the scene down here is with a pinup
scene more specifically is notthat big. Really? No, I would
like to think that I helpedbring it out. Because I've had
pin South Florida, which is ameetup group. We're open to
anyone and everyone I startedit, it will be four years this
year. And it's really broughtdifferent people that love cars,
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you know, women or the style,but they never really had a
place to go. So I just createdevents and they would come and
then it grew into people beinglike, Okay, I'm ready. When's
the next one? Um, let's dressup. And then last year before
the pandemic I was at one of mydream events to always do was
like a rockabilly prompt. But Iwanted it to be like, in the
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evening, very glam because wenever got to wear gowns, you
know, the Gold Coast Museum,which is a historical trade
museum down south er than me bythe zoo. If you're from South
Florida, they have like amazingvintage trains. And they reached
out to me to do an event and Isaid, we're doing this prom I've
always wanted to do.
Unknown (32:27):
Yes.
Midge (32:29):
I have a rockabilly prom in Kansas City, like years and
years and years ago. But it's itwas hosted by one of the radio
stations in town. But it's beenit's been probably five years or
more since they did those andwas
Miss Pinup Miami (32:40):
a lot of fun.
Yeah. Yes, I just like puttingon events and bringing people
together. And when they see medressed up, it all started
because people would see medressed up and they were like,
Oh, I wish I could dress likeyou. And I'm like, you could
dress have this however you youcan dress however you like
anytime.
Midge (32:56):
Stop being less happy than you can.
Miss Pinup Miami (32:58):
Exactly. And but I gave people that push. And
I'm like, we need an excuse.
Well, every Sunday, you couldfind me here. And we're doing a
brunch. And so the consistentthing was a brunch every Sunday
for because of the pandemic wasthe first time I didn't have
one. But because I just want tosay yeah, every Sunday I'm like,
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No, no, no, I stopped. Yeah. Andyeah, it's been a great
experience. And I've met so manywomen, like I said earlier, like
people come in jeans and a Tshirt. It's just about loving
the community. I really thinkI've built a community here that
is very, um, that word I can'tsay.
Midge (33:39):
Yes, no, absolutely. And that's, I mean, at the end of
the day, I think that's whatit's I mean, that's why I do
YouTube. That's what it's allabout is finding, you know,
finding your community. Like, II'm sure you're the same way I
don't do this because I wantlike attention or applause or
anything. I just, I wanted tofind other people who love what
I love and have conversationsabout it. And here we are having
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a conversation about you know, Idon't think I have any bigger
regrets in my life. Like, youknow, all those things, like
right before the pandemic thatyou were like, Huh, next year,
and now you're like, why didn'tI do that? The Nashville Boogie.
I think it was.
Unknown (34:20):
It was in my head. The
Midge (34:22):
one it was like the Ron x and B 52. Like, it was all the
like, the good. And I wanted togo so bad. And I was like, oh,
like I just started a new job,blah, blah, blah, like I'll go
next year. And now like neveragain. Will I say like I'll
regret it next time. Yeah, neveragain. We're only we're going
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all out from here on out.
Miss Pinup Miami (34:47):
And I love it.
So let everyone know how theycan reach you. I know your
YouTube. Monster Instagram Mitchmonster. You make it really
easy.
Midge (34:56):
Yes, everything's Mitch monster. You can find me
Instagram, YouTube. What else?
Yeah, and if you if I may, I'mgonna do a shameless plug I also
run a size inclusive of vintageboutique online. It's called the
beehive KC. And so if you wantto buy clothes like I wear that
is where you can find them atthe beehive. acx.com and we're
(35:19):
on Instagram also at the beehiveKC mo
Miss Pinup Miami (35:27):
I thank you so much for being on my podcast. It
means so much to me. pleasure.
Midge (35:33):
Thank you for having me.
This was so fun and it's good totalk about things again. It's
been so long since I've beenable to talk about vintage or
pinup or anything. This isgreat.
Miss Pinup Miami (35:42):
Well, anytime you have any topic you just want
to vent you know, just reach outto me. I love it. The next week
I have a designer. It's Alexisfrom Ames and elk style house.
She will be joining in and yourface opens.
Midge (36:00):
I woke up closer so beautiful.
Miss Pinup Miami (36:04):
Well she will be in next week. She's very
she's size inclusive. She doescustom dresses uses amazing
fabrics. And I love hersweaters.
Unknown (36:12):
Yes,
Midge (36:13):
they did a really cute dress last year that had like
beetles all over it and I wantedit really bad.
Miss Pinup Miami (36:19):
I modeled her I modeled for her clothes on
Viva East two years ago. Ialready got my mirrors messed
up. Yes, she is going to be onthe show next week. So make sure
you tune in next Wednesday. Makesure to subscribe if you're
watching on YouTube, on Applepodcast, Spotify anywhere and if
you could rate the podcast, it'sa free way to help me out and I
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would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you all and your your nextweek. You listen to us next bye
Good day and welcome back to the pin podcast
on episode number 37. At the pinpodcast, we talk about modern
topics with a vintage flair. I'myour host Pinup Miami. And if
it's your first time listeningto the podcast, welcome, I hope
that you stay. And if you're areturning listener, I love you
guys so much. Thank you so muchfor listening for your text for
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Today's episode, I just want tomake one announcement of the
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pinned calendar applications arestill open. So if you're willing
to come to South Florida andbecome a model, a panel for a
day and be part of the pinkcalendar, it's my baby project
that I work in all year. Thisyear I'll be making all the
outfits you don't need anyexperience hair and makeup what
we done those photographer sojust apply at the pin calendar
calm and I look forward to yourapplication. Today we're gonna
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take it back to like glamourHalloween times. I even brought
out if you're watching us onYouTube. I brought out my decor
from my room says glamour girlbecause we have a glamour girl
in the house as she's a YouTubera plus size pinup model. A
vintage glamour girl. Her nameis Mitch monster. How are you? I
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am great. How are you doing? I'mdoing great. I even was tempted
to put on green lights for you.
Oh yes.
How did you get the name um, Iwanted to put together kind of a
name that just explained who Iwas. And I've always been a big
fan of the show the monsters andMaryland monsters character who
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was kind of pretty on theoutside the spooky on the
inside. And I feel like that wasreally who I am as a person. And
Mitch came from the marvelousMrs. nasal because she's a funny
woman and I'm a funny woman. AndI kind of smush two things
together that I felt like justtold the story of what I what it
is I do here. Are you secretly astand up comic?
Midge (02:20):
I actually. Yeah, I used to do a lot of comedy and
improv. I don't so much anymoresince I've been working stiff.
But I do really enjoy doingcomedy. Yeah. Hey, you never
know you could go back to it.
Hopefully I would love to be sofun. You should have a cameo in
marvelous Miss Mazal you comeout. I would plot study.
Unknown (02:46):
be amazing.
Miss Pinup Miami (02:47):
So tell us a little bit about yourself. You
started while your YouTubereally went off last year.
Midge (02:52):
Ah, it took off out of nowhere. And
thank you if you're one of myamazing people watching this or
listening to this. Yeah, I so Ihad been on YouTube for probably
three and a half years or moreand doing vintage stuff, you
know, hair and thrifting andthat kind of thing. And I think
I was really trying tofit a mold of you know, kind of
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these other really elegant funlike cute sweet pinups, which
are amazing people, but it'salso just not who I am. And I
think I had an idea of what apinup was. And I was really
trying to be that person. Andthen actually, during
quarantine, there was this trendthat went around it was called
quarantine a ween in March, itwas like the halfway to
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Halloween mark and a bunch ofpeople on Instagram, were you
know, dressing up and putting uptheir Halloween decorations just
for something to make them happywhile they were in lockdown. And
of course, I hopped on thattrain faster than I've ever
jumped on anything in my life.
And I made a Halloween video formy youtube channel in March. And
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people really liked it. And Ihad so much fun, I had more fun
making that video than I had hadin three years doing YouTube.
And so I kind of took a stepback and reevaluate it and was
like, You know what, maybe Ineed to be being true to myself
making the content I want tomake. And so I started doing
like Halloween decor huntingvideos and things like that all
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through the summer. And it just,it blew up overnight. I mean, I
say blew up. It's I think I'vegot like 7000 people but you
know, when I started with 300and went to like 17 Yeah, it was
over a couple of months. And Iwas like, okay, sweet. So I feel
like I found my niche now. And Ilove it. I love it so much.
Miss Pinup Miami (04:41):
And the best part is that you're yourself.
Midge (04:43):
Yeah, are you I'm friendly. I'm just being my
truest me which is all we canall we can do, right? Yeah.
Miss Pinup Miami (04:52):
Go. Have you ever had like what what has been
your favorite Halloween costumethat you've done? Oh, man.
Midge (05:00):
Ah, I really loved oh dang, I've had so I mean, man
probably I mean from when I waslike a kid I really used to
dress up as Jessie from ToyStory which I love. And I am I
am a bottle redhead but any likeredheaded character I like when
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is Fiona from Shrek I wanted tobe a redhead so bad when I was a
kid. Now later in my life, butyeah, in the last few years, my
husband and I went to SweeneyTodd a couple years, like so. A
couple years after we starteddating, and I made those
costumes. That was really reallyfun. I liked that one.
Miss Pinup Miami (05:43):
Oh, that's amazing. I love um, I do the
same thing. Well, now that Ihave yellow hair, I always
styled my hair like characterswith my hair color. Like when I
go to dapper day. I'll do like aTinkerbell inspired.
Midge (05:56):
Yeah, well, because you have the best hair on the
internet. By the way. I probablystarted following you like two
and a half years ago or so. AndI remember the first picture I
saw of you and I was like thehair mama the hair. Oh, it's
like a beacon calling out to allof us.
Miss Pinup Miami (06:17):
During quarantine, I really let my in
between routes going through butpeople know. I'm not a natural
headlight. No, but that's athat's why I started doing
workshops about three years ago.
I'm just teaching hands on. Idon't do professional hair
makeup. But I love teachingpeople how to do it in real
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life.
Midge (06:41):
Yeah, that's when you clearly know what you're doing
the proof in the pudding or inthe victory role, I should say.
Miss Pinup Miami (06:47):
A little side hustle here. So you mentioned
the vintage community thatthey're very, I've noticed a
change. I've been in Pinal for along time. I've noticed a change
that everything is going alittle more glam. I don't know.
Yeah, same way.
Midge (07:04):
Definitely. Definitely.
Yeah, people are very muchtrending more. Well, two things
kind of that old Hollywoodglamour. And then like the kind
of Jane Austen II cottage corevintage, like the more historic
Regency vintage. And yeah, butI, when I got started, and I'm
sure when you got started, itwas a lot more catchy and
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rockabilly.
Miss Pinup Miami (07:27):
Yeah, that's what I love. And I love
pinstriping and like rock andswing dancing, driving. But
yeah, I noticed such a shift.
And then I don't understand. Imean, I understand it, because
glamour is timeless. And we bothcould dress up glam. I know.
Midge (07:46):
Yes, we can do it, we can do it more. But there's
Miss Pinup Miami (07:49):
like a divide in some circles that people Oh,
you only could be one way or youcould be this way. And I feel
like you could be both.
Midge (07:57):
Yeah, the vintage community can be very, it's very
strange, because it's in someway so inclusive. And I mean, I
think that's an I may bespeaking out of turn here for
both of us. But I mean, that'skind of why I came here is
because my body doesn't looklike other peoples and I felt
welcomed by this style and thepeople and I've never felt like
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I had to be anything else here.
But then there are a lot ofpurists, I think about what
Unknown (08:25):
the word.
Midge (08:26):
Yeah, what the word pinup means what the word vintage
means. Yeah, there's definitelysome people who like if you
didn't actually buy it from a1950s warehouse than you.
Miss Pinup Miami (08:43):
And I've seen that I've had girls that come to
my meetup. Well, beforequarantine, they'll be like, I
can't go because I don't have avintage dress. I'm like, Girl,
there's people that come injeans and a T shirt rocking it
and just because they love this,they haven't seen passion you
don't need
Midge (09:01):
Yeah, and I think there's definitely a you know, kind of a
thought that you have to spend alot of money and like be like,
you know, look perfect all thetime. And like that. I don't, I
don't know, I've never felt thatpressure. I think it you know,
it just it comes kind of as youas you go, I started very basic.
(09:24):
I had like, address and likesome scarves that I wrapped in
my hair. And I was like
Unknown (09:29):
I'm a pinup now.
Miss Pinup Miami (09:32):
That's all you need. And that little bit of
confidence is a great
Midge (09:36):
attitude. It's the attitude.
Miss Pinup Miami (09:38):
I think it's just people when you first
start, it's intimidating. I feellike it's just grown a little
more now. And it's intimidatingand I just think people just
need to relax and just start offwith a scarf and a skirt and
Midge (09:52):
put on some red lipstick or whatever Coco Chanel said.
Miss Pinup Miami (09:56):
And I agree with what you said about
implicit oh my gosh, Englishinclusivity Oh my god, I can't
say the word
Unknown (10:04):
inclusivity Yes, that, that.
Miss Pinup Miami (10:09):
That's another reason why I got into the pinup
communities because the skirtswere very flattering. And that's
why I started sewing because Icouldn't go to the thrift store
and get true vintage. So I juststarted out doing my own stuff.
But you do you make stuff.
Midge (10:22):
I do. I so I'm, I'm very, I'm a novice seamstress I, I
work well, I used to be verygood. I worked in a costume
shop. My background is intheater. And I worked in a
costume shop for several years.
And it was like some of the bestyears of my life Honestly, I
love that even just for playsand stuff. So historical, and
made a lot of like really cool.
(10:45):
Like Regency garments andVictorian and Georgian of cool
stuff. Wow. And I mean, I reallyenjoyed that. Sometimes more
than acting, which was like my,my passion, you know, but I
really found a love for sewingdoing that. And then I kind of
fell out of it when I graduatedcollege, and I've just been
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lost. This is one of my goalsfor this year is to get back
into it. And I've started sewingagain and I I do love it so
much.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:14):
Yeah, you can match. You could do more
costumes and match all yourvideos and
Midge (11:22):
everything.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:23):
Yeah, that's what I do. I'm actually now
trying to figure out how toeither sell my stuff but then
you love them because you madethem. Yeah. Or how to store them
because during quarantine myboyfriend moved in and I had to
give them one of my closets.
Yes. I'm working on that.
Midge (11:42):
My husband learned his lesson he he doesn't have a
closet anymore.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:46):
Ah, that's what I have to do. I gotta tell
Midge (11:49):
he's got a couple really nice dressers.
Miss Pinup Miami (11:52):
I'll give him all my dresses. I don't really
use my dresses just for like, Ijust have a drawer of hair
flowers. I'll just hang them up.
Girls hang them up really cuteon I have ribbons. Yeah, that's
the way that's adorable. Haveyou had any like body shaming
when you started doing YouTube?
Or?
Midge (12:14):
surprisingly not. And I don't know if I'm just not big
enough yet. For the whole I'mplenty big. Let's be clear, but
I'm not at that level yet wherepeople are coming after me. But
I I've never really yeah, in thevintage community. I've never
really experienced anyonespecifically coming at me about
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my weight. But I think too,that, you know, part of that is
just being comfortable with itat this point. Like I I think I
got called fat more when I wasthin because I was insecure
about my body than I do now.
Because I'm, I'm fine with it.
It's like what are you going tosay?
Miss Pinup Miami (12:55):
That's interesting. I never heard you
like plain out like that. Yeah,I
Midge (12:59):
mean, like when I was, you know, maybe 165 pounds. I
think I had more people makecomments about my weight then.
Just because I think I wasshowing that I was afraid of
being called fat. And now I'mlike, I know I'm fat. You don't
have to tell me like
Miss Pinup Miami (13:19):
that family supportive.
Midge (13:21):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, my, I think we, you know,
just the time we grew up into itwas a time that was very, I
mean, first of all for femaleidentifying people in general it
has always been an issue youknow, that we're made to feel
like we have to be fed.
Miss Pinup Miami (13:39):
Well, that's why I asked you about family cuz
growing up and my family. I'vealways been the big girl. Yeah,
in my family. It was always seemterrible. To this day. It's seen
as terrible. I'm one time.
Sorry. I'm digressing from yourends. Oh, no. But one time I
thought I made dresses for afashion show. And I invited my
parents they didn't want to gothen they finally came. And at
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the end of the show my dad hesaid it in Spanish because they
only speak Spanish but he goesOh, I thought this was a fast
show for fat women. I was likeis that All you think about is
like I have big
Midge (14:16):
goals and you can leave
Miss Pinup Miami (14:21):
all like I'm not inviting him ever again.
Midge (14:23):
Oh my goodness. Yeah. No, I mean, I wouldn't say
supportive as the word. I mean,I think my mother struggled with
her weight her whole life andshe was worried that I would go
through the same thing she wentthrough and I think it really
came from a place of love. Butshe did talk a lot about weight
not not not even necessarily myweight but just weight a lot in
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general. And I actually wasn't abig child. I was very thin. I
was a dancer. I was. I mean Iwas pretty. I was always big
like tall and big bone but Iwasn't ever heavy. Until All
later, and, you know, puberty.
And I think I probably startedyo yo dieting when I was like
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11. And just out of that seed inmy head that had been planted
that said, like, you need to notlet yourself be fat. And I mean,
and then I just spent years,years and years and years being
less happy than I could havebeen. And it makes me really
sad. Now, when I look back atpictures of myself from that
(15:29):
time, and I was like, I wasn'tbig, I wasn't big. But like, I
was so obsessed with the factthat I thought I was huge. And I
spent so much time thinking likefat was the worst thing you
could be. And then collegehappened, and I, you know, I've
got some medical stuff and whathave you and I gained like 65
(15:51):
pounds in a year. And I reallylike, thought my life was over,
for lack of a better word, andlike I but then it happened. And
nothing happened. Like nothingchanged. You know, I my friends
still loved me, my, my familystill loved me, my husband, and
now now husband or boyfriend atthe time still loved me. Like, I
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was still booking gigs. I wasstill like, I was still me, I
was just taking up more space.
And I think in a weird way,gaining all that weight was the
best thing that ever happened tome. Because it like freed me
from that mindset. And thensuddenly, I wasn't afraid to
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take up space anymore, you know,and now at my heaviest, I'm
happier now than I have everbeen. And I really think that
the like, becoming fat kind offreed me from the prison of diet
culture and thinking that I hadto be something on your
(16:54):
confidence. Yeah, I mean, I'mjust I'm, I'm so happy now that
I can just I used to hatelooking at myself in pictures.
And I'm like, why? Like now Isee myself. I'm like, Damn,
cute. Like,
Miss Pinup Miami (17:08):
we need to make a mirror that has you in
the reflection so that you couldjust type up all the girls like
Yeah, that would be cool. Butit's amazing to hear that it's
like the remote. Most peoplewould think it's all a mental
game. Most people will thinkthat when you're skinny, you'd
be your happiest because you'reskinny. But it's I love hearing
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that story because it's not itwasn't just about the it's not
about the weight. It was moreabout finding your confidence.
Yeah, just so happens to be theopposite of what you thought
about girl.
Midge (17:41):
No, absolutely. And I think like a lot of times like I
said we make ourselves prisonersin our own mind thinking that we
can only be this one thing andthat's the only way people will
accept us. And it's just not thecase like if you own who you are
at any weight you know anyanything any gender race like
(18:02):
anything you own who you are andbring it competently people
respond to that. And I I just Idon't know, it's exhausting.
It's it's not worth the energyto try to pretend to be
something you're not.
Miss Pinup Miami (18:16):
Now look at you glowing smiling every time
you have your videos. You'realways like, you could feel that
confidence through the screen.
Midge (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I am.
I'm happy. I'm very happy now. Ithink it's, you know, everybody
listening, stop apologizing fortaking up space in this world in
any way. Whether it's physicallymentally, you know, women who
are loud, be loud, like, juststop apologizing. Because at the
end of the day, like, like Isaid, I spent so much time being
(18:47):
less happy than I could havebeen. And why like don't do that
to yourself be happy now.
Miss Pinup Miami (18:55):
Well said ditto.
Midge (18:59):
Cosine,
Miss Pinup Miami (19:00):
cosine and Pinup Miami. So, Mitch, do you
have any future projects thatyou're working on that you could
or any like video ideas, youcould sneak peek? And
Midge (19:13):
yes, I'm actually working on a very exciting collaboration
right now. It's been many, manymonths in the making. And it's
speaking of sewing actually. Andso like I said, one of my goals
for myself this year was to getback into sewing and one of the
things I wanted to do was tokind of challenge myself to
recreate outfits from some of myfavorite television shows in a
(19:38):
row like on a plus size body.
And one of those shows that Ireally really love is called
Pushing Daisies. Oh my gosh,
Miss Pinup Miami (19:46):
I love that.
I'm crazy when I say that showthat it's like musical and I had
the girlfriend wiki that waslike
Midge (19:54):
it was the best show was only on for like two seasons.
I've owned it on DVD since I waslike 12 I love that show got
canceled after a couple seasonsdidn't get its due at all. If
you don't know the show, it'sabout a, it's just the most
aesthetic. I mean, you canattest to this like it's a
static show ever. It'sbeautifully shot. And it's about
(20:17):
a pie maker who has the abilityto touch people who are dead and
bring them back to life. But hecan only bring him back to life
for a minute. And then he has totouch them again. So they go
back to being dead or somebodyelse has to take their place.
And then he can never touch themagain if they're like, alive.
And so he ends up like touchinghis childhood sweetheart who is
(20:38):
found dead and he can't bringhimself to put her back so they
can never touch again. And he'sjust living his life with his
dead childhood sweetheart andit's adorable. And the woman has
a sweetheart Her name isCharlotte Charles or Chuck and
all her fashion is very vintageyvery vintage II I like I blame
(20:59):
that show for my first likewhisperings of the vintage like
oh my God, this the colors andthe hair and the the designs and
oh my gosh. And so I reallywanted to recreate some of her
outfit some of chucks, outfits.
And I had posted something aboutthis on Instagram, and a another
lovely plus size pen up Jen at avintage vanity. And who is also
(21:24):
a pretty good, has a pretty hugepresence on YouTube. Actually.
She reached out to me and waslike, Oh my god, I love that
show.
Can we work on this together.
And so Jen and I are doing aPushing Daisies collaboration
right now, that'll come outprobably about a week after you
guys are listening to this. Sokeep an eye on that because it
(21:46):
is we're doing vintage takes onsome of the different outfits
from that show. And it's gonnabe really, really fun.
Miss Pinup Miami (21:54):
Make sure you guys follow her at Mitch monster
on YouTube.
Unknown (21:57):
Yay.
Miss Pinup Miami (21:59):
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to see that.
Midge (22:02):
I'm excited. I'm also extremely intimidated because
Jen is like a pro seamstress.
And I'm like, just just gettingback in the saddle. And I was
like, yeah, I'll make a wholedress. That seems like a great
idea.
Miss Pinup Miami (22:17):
I believe in you could do it. You have the
motivation with the show and thecollaboration, you're gonna pull
it through and make somethingincredible.
Midge (22:24):
I think I think it's gonna be really fun. It's going
well so far. So let's see.
Miss Pinup Miami (22:30):
Alright, so I have a couple questions that
were sent to me on Instagram.
What is one thing you wish youhad known before you started
YouTube?
Midge (22:42):
I wish someone had told me to get my rear end gear and
just do it. Honestly, and that'smy advice. Anytime somebody asks
me like, what my advice is,we're starting a YouTube
channel, do it, you're alwaysgoing to have things you wish
were better. You're going towish you had a better camera.
Wish you had better soundequipment, better lights, better
(23:04):
editing software, it neverstops. And even now, with the
upgrades I've made in the lasttwo years, I still have things I
wish I was better at. I mean,I'm completely self taught. I
didn't know how to edit a videowhen I started doing YouTube.
But you're never going to getany better unless you start
doing it. And, you know, it'slike, yeah, sure I watch things
(23:25):
I made three years ago and Icringe. But I, I I wouldn't
trade it. You know, like you youlearn and you grow and you find
who you are along the way. And Ithink you know, I just wish
someone would have been like,just do it. Just if you want to
do it, do it because you couldhave been doing it all this time
(23:45):
and having fun and you Whydidn't you do it? That's the
theme of the podcast. You couldhave been happier all this time.
Just do what you want to do liveyour dreams. That's how
Miss Pinup Miami (23:57):
I was when I podcast I started with just my
cell phone.
Midge (24:00):
Yeah. Ba is this by the way,
Unknown (24:03):
like
Midge (24:04):
you're rocking it. I love that you have a podcast. This is
something I like wish I had theskills for this is so cool.
Miss Pinup Miami (24:10):
This is when I say Just do it. Spooky podcast.
Oh my god, they're full podcastwith me.
Midge (24:17):
I do all the ways actually. I'm all the guests. I
just do different voices. Todaywe're talking to a British
ghost. I'm like, oh no my
Miss Pinup Miami (24:28):
stories. My boyfriend loves listening to
like this podcast. I forgot thepodcast name that it's literally
just storytelling. And it couldbe different voices. There you
go.
Midge (24:38):
That's true. That's true.
Miss Pinup Miami (24:40):
Next, I have here your favorite horror movie,
I'm sure.
Midge (24:45):
Yeah, I guess it kind of depends on like sub genre within
horror.
Miss Pinup Miami (24:51):
Go for a campy horror, Hampi or Yeah,
Midge (24:54):
I mean, I love a slasher film. I love I love the original
Halloween. I love screens. Yeah,I love Evil Dead if you want
something really campy as far asclassics Bride of Frankenstein
hands down, just like good old gbase horror classic.
Miss Pinup Miami (25:16):
I love Hellraiser. Oh, Nightmare on Elm
Street
Midge (25:21):
A fun fact my uncle Mark Patton is Jesse in the second
Nightmare on Elm Street. Themain the main character in that
movie so I like I grew up onthat franchise because my family
is of the of the world of ElmStreet.
Miss Pinup Miami (25:40):
That's all I was about to say. People don't
know this about me because theysee like all my colorful pinup
stuff, but my back room has a50s diner, but the rest of it is
all my horror memorabilia. So Ihave ever England with like the
from America lesson. That's whyI have that because somebody
gifted it to me.
Unknown (26:00):
Oh my gosh.
Miss Pinup Miami (26:02):
And then I have mannequins and skeletons.
It's just weird, but it's cute.
Midge (26:06):
We're like, you're you're one of us. You're coated in
sugar, but you cut it open. It'sjust pure Gore.
Miss Pinup Miami (26:12):
Yes. What are your top three shopping stores
for vintage slash repro.
Midge (26:20):
Ooh, okay. Well, locally, I have a shop in town called
retro vixen. I'm going to givethem a shout out because you can
also shop with them online. Andthey are my they're my ladies.
They're my ride or die. I boughtmy first vintage dress vintage
style dress at their store whenI was in high school and never
looked back. And they're verysize inclusive, which I've
(26:42):
always appreciated. And as faras brands like shopping online
vixen by Michelin Pitt who I'mwearing today, and one of my all
time favorites and she does lotsof kooky spooky things as well
which I you know, obviously Iprint awesome. Oh, they're so
good. And the sizing is just sotasty. And she also has a sister
(27:04):
company called La Femme en Noir.
I shop all their stuff as well.
And then probably like hellbunny I guess they have really
good Really I just anything sizeinclusive hell bunny retro
delicious. sourpuss like if youwant fun printed rockabilly,
good time dresses. that's thoseare the places to go.
Miss Pinup Miami (27:24):
And like summer posts, I've never tried a
vixen. Vintage vixen.
Midge (27:29):
Mama, you would look so good and everything they do. You
got to do it. Have to try. I
Miss Pinup Miami (27:34):
haven't tried that one.
Midge (27:37):
And if you're listening, please sponsor me. I'm your
biggest fan.
Unknown (27:42):
I tell everyone
Miss Pinup Miami (27:44):
to be a guest and then I'll drop your name.
Unknown (27:48):
Like Mitch will not shut up about you.
Miss Pinup Miami (27:52):
What is your favorite makeup palette?
Midge (27:55):
Ooh. Oh, here we go.
You're ready.
Miss Pinup Miami (27:58):
It's right there. It's a better reach.
Midge (28:01):
So I just got this I did a YouTube video with it.
Actually, this is the meltcosmetics recently deceased
Beetlejuice palette.
Miss Pinup Miami (28:10):
I like their eyeshadows Yeah.
Midge (28:13):
Yeah, it's a it's all just like spooky greens and
purples. And I love it. I'mactually i'm not i wasn't I was
never a big eyeshadow girl. Andjust like this last year, I
think because of the masksbecause lipsticks always been my
go to. And so I think like withwearing a mask, I was like, Oh,
I gotta I gotta do something uphere to make it pap. And so I
(28:36):
bought a whole bunch ofeyeshadow. And now that's a
thing I do,
Unknown (28:40):
apparently.
Miss Pinup Miami (28:42):
Do you have any tips for thrifting and being
plus size?
Midge (28:47):
Ooh, it's rough. I mean, there's just no way around that.
And I'm sure you know, too. Likeit's just rough
Miss Pinup Miami (28:52):
measure.
Unknown (28:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Midge (28:56):
But I think Be on the lookout for Well, I guess you
know, first of all, learn to sewplease do it. Just do it. Learn
to even if it's just a tailorand mend, like learn learn
basics of selling. And then beon the lookout for things that
are really big that you can likemake look cool. Like there's a
lot of kind of like 80s does.
40s 80s does 50s kind of stuffout there, which it's more like
(29:19):
sack shaped than the 50s and40s. But you can taper like the
waist and things very easily andmake some really cute vintage
style dresses out of things thatare kind of ugly.
Miss Pinup Miami (29:36):
My tip I always tell like girls to look
at the mother of the bride likeon poshmark or eBay. And I've
got an incredible things forlike the Art Deco weekend and
yeah, especially if you do likewhat you do, like if you are,
you know doing a lot of pinupcontests and things. Yeah,
that's a great way to find gownsfor stuff. I love them. So I'm
(29:58):
over the contest. I just hostedNow
Midge (30:02):
you got that gig, you just get to stand there and look
beautiful and talk.
Miss Pinup Miami (30:08):
I will one day maybe one day I all my friends
want me to try to go to Viva LasVegas.
Midge (30:12):
Girl, I'm trying to go this year or they moved it to my
birthday weekend. And I'm like,well
Miss Pinup Miami (30:21):
have a cocktail night and then you do
like stand up.
Unknown (30:25):
Oh my god.
Miss Pinup Miami (30:26):
We'll do our own.
Unknown (30:29):
We're gonna pay to watch that. I'm sure you can
host
Miss Pinup Miami (30:35):
a host and I'll bring you on stage.
Midge (30:37):
And then you could like blew me off when it's when it's
really rusty.
Miss Pinup Miami (30:41):
No, no, just go everyone out. Hi, do you have
any questions for me?
Midge (30:50):
For you? All of them. I mean, I guess just, I, this is
our first time interacting likeIRL, which is crazy because I
feel like I've been aware of youfor so long. But like what well,
first of all, what is the pinupscene like, in my I feel like
(31:11):
you guys have a great likevintage scene. I live in a I
live in a Midwestern state. I amone of like eight vintage women
in this whole damn city.
Miss Pinup Miami (31:21):
Well, the scene down here is with a pinup
scene more specifically is notthat big. Really? No, I would
like to think that I helpedbring it out. Because I've had
pin South Florida, which is ameetup group. We're open to
anyone and everyone I startedit, it will be four years this
year. And it's really broughtdifferent people that love cars,
(31:46):
you know, women or the style,but they never really had a
place to go. So I just createdevents and they would come and
then it grew into people beinglike, Okay, I'm ready. When's
the next one? Um, let's dressup. And then last year before
the pandemic I was at one of mydream events to always do was
like a rockabilly prompt. But Iwanted it to be like, in the
(32:07):
evening, very glam because wenever got to wear gowns, you
know, the Gold Coast Museum,which is a historical trade
museum down south er than me bythe zoo. If you're from South
Florida, they have like amazingvintage trains. And they reached
out to me to do an event and Isaid, we're doing this prom I've
always wanted to do.
Unknown (32:27):
Yes.
Midge (32:29):
I have a rockabilly prom in Kansas City, like years and
years and years ago. But it's itwas hosted by one of the radio
stations in town. But it's beenit's been probably five years or
more since they did those andwas
Miss Pinup Miami (32:40):
a lot of fun.
Yeah. Yes, I just like puttingon events and bringing people
together. And when they see medressed up, it all started
because people would see medressed up and they were like,
Oh, I wish I could dress likeyou. And I'm like, you could
dress have this however you youcan dress however you like
anytime.
Midge (32:56):
Stop being less happy than you can.
Miss Pinup Miami (32:58):
Exactly. And but I gave people that push. And
I'm like, we need an excuse.
Well, every Sunday, you couldfind me here. And we're doing a
brunch. And so the consistentthing was a brunch every Sunday
for because of the pandemic wasthe first time I didn't have
one. But because I just want tosay yeah, every Sunday I'm like,
(33:19):
No, no, no, I stopped. Yeah. Andyeah, it's been a great
experience. And I've met so manywomen, like I said earlier, like
people come in jeans and a Tshirt. It's just about loving
the community. I really thinkI've built a community here that
is very, um, that word I can'tsay.
Midge (33:39):
Yes, no, absolutely. And that's, I mean, at the end of
the day, I think that's whatit's I mean, that's why I do
YouTube. That's what it's allabout is finding, you know,
finding your community. Like, II'm sure you're the same way I
don't do this because I wantlike attention or applause or
anything. I just, I wanted tofind other people who love what
I love and have conversationsabout it. And here we are having
(34:01):
a conversation about you know, Idon't think I have any bigger
regrets in my life. Like, youknow, all those things, like
right before the pandemic thatyou were like, Huh, next year,
and now you're like, why didn'tI do that? The Nashville Boogie.
I think it was.
Unknown (34:20):
It was in my head. The
Midge (34:22):
one it was like the Ron x and B 52. Like, it was all the
like, the good. And I wanted togo so bad. And I was like, oh,
like I just started a new job,blah, blah, blah, like I'll go
next year. And now like neveragain. Will I say like I'll
regret it next time. Yeah, neveragain. We're only we're going
(34:44):
all out from here on out.
Miss Pinup Miami (34:47):
And I love it.
So let everyone know how theycan reach you. I know your
YouTube. Monster Instagram Mitchmonster. You make it really
easy.
Midge (34:56):
Yes, everything's Mitch monster. You can find me
Instagram, YouTube. What else?
Yeah, and if you if I may, I'mgonna do a shameless plug I also
run a size inclusive of vintageboutique online. It's called the
beehive KC. And so if you wantto buy clothes like I wear that
is where you can find them atthe beehive. acx.com and we're
(35:19):
on Instagram also at the beehiveKC mo
Miss Pinup Miami (35:27):
I thank you so much for being on my podcast. It
means so much to me. pleasure.
Midge (35:33):
Thank you for having me.
This was so fun and it's good totalk about things again. It's
been so long since I've beenable to talk about vintage or
pinup or anything. This isgreat.
Miss Pinup Miami (35:42):
Well, anytime you have any topic you just want
to vent you know, just reach outto me. I love it. The next week
I have a designer. It's Alexisfrom Ames and elk style house.
She will be joining in and yourface opens.
Midge (36:00):
I woke up closer so beautiful.
Miss Pinup Miami (36:04):
Well she will be in next week. She's very
she's size inclusive. She doescustom dresses uses amazing
fabrics. And I love hersweaters.
Unknown (36:12):
Yes,
Midge (36:13):
they did a really cute dress last year that had like
beetles all over it and I wantedit really bad.
Miss Pinup Miami (36:19):
I modeled her I modeled for her clothes on
Viva East two years ago. Ialready got my mirrors messed
up. Yes, she is going to be onthe show next week. So make sure
you tune in next Wednesday. Makesure to subscribe if you're
watching on YouTube, on Applepodcast, Spotify anywhere and if
you could rate the podcast, it'sa free way to help me out and I
(36:42):
would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you all and your your nextweek. You listen to us next bye
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