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| Paper Dolls with Real Fabric Clothes Woman's Day August 1954 |
This 1954 Cut Out Dolly, from Woman's Day Magazine, includes Dolly and outfits made with fabric and photographed. Using each of the outfits as a guide, make your own fabric clothes for Dolly. This would be a wonderful Mother Daughter project, and with today's technology, you could print out photos of the two of you and make wardrobes that match. Download Dolly HERE. Prints on two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper.
Dressing in vintage fashions is easy if you sew. Find vintage sewing patterns for mom and daughter at my Cynicalgirl shop on Goodsmiths and Etsy.
Such a clever idea!
ReplyDeleteI remember Betsy McCall! We also used to make paper dolls by cutting out fashion photos from magazines, gluing them to cardboard (from my Dad's shirts), cutting around them, then gluing on a popsicle stick (used, of course, nobody bought stuff like that) to hold them up. Or maybe they were puppets.
ReplyDeleteI still save popsicle sticks;)
DeleteI recently found a stash of old handmade paper dolls from the early 1900s, some are magazine paper dolls and some are just cut outs from catalogs and magazines. The young lady wrote the names of her characters on the back of each one - so sweet!
ReplyDeleteI chose several of them and framed them between glass for my bathroom. They are just lovely!
Paper dolls were always my favorite, I had Mary Poppins with her lovely dresses, Tricia Nixon and her wedding party, big babies, teen girls, lovely adult women, and little red riding hood. I still have most of them, except the Tricia Nixon. Good memories!
I had the Mary Poppins too! Dover has republished many of those so they are still available in close to their original form. Great idea about framing between glass.
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