Paper doll costume Type Paper doll costume Medium Lithograph, brush and watercolor on cream heavy wove paper made in USA See more items in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Drawings, ...

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In the 1930s, a recurring feature in the Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine presented a selection of Muny actors as paper dolls, each with an assortment of costumes from the season.

Paper dolls, a vital part of children’s lives and fashion culture for generations, have always been meant to be instructive: to teach young women and girls how to look and behave. But, from the ...

The story of American women can be told through paper dolls. From the Victorian wedding costumes favored by brides of the late 1880s to the belted pantsuits of the 1970s, paper dolls trace the ...

Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls — hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans — were nearly as rarefied as the real-life versions of the towering headdresses and ruffled ...

Their stylish winter coats — with matching red hats and muffs — were still waiting to be cut from the latest paper-doll book. A particular favorite was the cardboard bride who wore a lavish pink gown.

She not only began collecting vintage paper dolls, ... She received the Fanny Gray Award, named after a 19th-century doll artist, for a series of dolls with clothes inspired by costume jewelry.