Both labels verified at this shop come out of the same house. Simpson County shoppers who walk in asking for Tiffany Designs are asking for a House of Wu collection — Wu describes it as prom, homecoming and special-occasion styling across mermaid, ball gown and fit-and-flare silhouettes. House of Wu itself runs 19 designer labels spanning bridal, bridesmaid, mother of the bride, prom, pageant and quinceañera. A small-town store that carries the house at all has a line into a deep catalog, which matters more here than floor space does.
The address is downtown, on Main Avenue South — not the Highway 49 commercial strip where the Walmart Supercenter and the Village Commons shops sit. Downtown Magee has an active Main Street organization working on preservation and revitalization of the district, and this is a storefront in that district rather than a suburban-style shopping center.
The schools this store is closest to
Magee is a town of 3,988 as of the 2020 census, counted as part of the Jackson metropolitan area. The schools around it are small, which changes the math on prom shopping:
- Magee High School, 501 East Choctaw Street — 404 students across grades 9–12, so roughly a hundred per class.
- Mendenhall High School, Circle Drive in Mendenhall — 529 students, grades 7–12.
- Simpson County Academy, the private school in Mendenhall — about 600 students, PK–12, tuition around $4,400.
- Simpson Central School in Pinola, west of town on Highway 28, feeds the county’s upper grades.
With senior classes that size, everyone at prom will see every dress. Asking a shop to log which gown went to which school is a reasonable question in Simpson County in a way it is not in a suburb with 600 seniors, and it is worth raising on the first visit.
Magee supports two formal shops
For a town under 4,000 people, that is unusual. Lela’s Formals and Boutique also operates in Magee, stocking prom and pageant dresses alongside boutique clothing and gifts. Anyone driving in from Mount Olive, Raleigh, Taylorsville or Pinola can see two separate inventories on one trip, which is not true of most towns this size in central Mississippi.
What is not documented
There is no website on file for this store, and the only online presence found is a Facebook page listed as a women’s clothing store with roughly 1,180 followers. Hours, price range and what the “rental” in the name covers — tuxedos, gowns, event items, or all three — could not be confirmed from any source. The phone number on record is (601) 517-7256, and calling ahead is the only reliable way to check hours and current stock before making the drive.