Brenda "Maxx" Cumby McGee

 

                                                    Founded in 2020, GottStreet Blues™ - working clothes for working women.

Brenda “Maxx” Cumby-McGee, founder of GottStreet Blues™, professional model turned union carpenter/steward has now begun her journey in women’s wear and is soon to make her waves starting with women’s construction wear.

 

Growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, little did Brenda know, her interest in construction began as a kid in her mother’s garden where she’d create a construction site and would take her brother’s red Tonka dump truck every chance she got since it was the perfect piece to complete her construction vision. By age 12, she even dreamed of being a model, playing dress-up in her mother’s clothing with every matching pair of gloves and shoes she could get her hands on. Then all through high school, she took shop, architectural design, & art; so, it was only right that she began her professional modeling career at the age of 19. 

 

Brenda, also known in her construction & modeling industry as “Maxx”, was given this moniker by photographer Vic Toliva as he didn’t feel “Brenda Lee” embodied the boldness, flavor, beauty & fierceness of the great model she was destined to be. During her modeling days, Brenda was exposed to and learned about fabrics more intimately from fashion designer Mary Ann Davis. She was also privileged to model at The Chicago Apparel Center and learn about selling and manufacturing clothing. Fast-forward to the age of 34, Brenda became a union carpenter thanks to Mr. Larry Cooper (Anheuser Busch Consultant), in the tradeshow industry. She worked almost exclusively at McCormick Place, Chicago’s convention center. The work was tough, a challenge, and downright hard at times, but it was fun, invigorating, and something with which she was extremely great. It was here, during her years in construction, where she quickly learned that proper clothing was essential! It wasn’t until her 26th year with the construction industry that she retired in 2020 due to the pandemic, which ironically, she’d just found herself back in the modeling game just one year before this unexpected occurrence, where she continues as a senior working model.

 

Brenda has been aligned and intertwined with the construction field, design, and fashion since she could remember and now, she’s designed a brand to encompass it all.