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- ↑ Kinsey Gidick Local milliner Leigh Magar goes Vogue; Top It Off December 1, 2010 Charleston City Paper
- ↑ Made in the South Award Winners Dec. 2010 Garden & Gun Archived November 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 Matt Lee, Ted Lee Party at the Drop of a Hat Food and Wine
- ↑ People Dwell
- ↑ Rains, Valerie. "Leigh Magar, Magar Hatworks". Country Living . Retrieved 9 December 2011.