Featured are wonderful Authentic Shirley Temple Paper Dolls and Dresses.
- Paper dolls let us enter the world of movie stars and we bec0me clothes designers and stylists for them.
- This paper doll set is reprinted from a rare original edition published by The Saalfield Publishing Company in 1937.
- This set includes two 11-inch-tall dolls with 16 appealing full-color costumes such as red-and-white windowpane-checked sundress, brown riding breeches, pleated orange party dress with purple bows, a smartly belted off-white sunsuit, a pair of pink pajamas with cap sleeves, and trimmed in blue.
- As a special added feature, black-and-white photographic insets on each costume page show Shirley wearing the original outfits copied by the artist for this collection.
- Complementing the wardrobe are a variety of period playthings and accessories; a toy horse and a long-eared pooch, hats, purses, jack-in-the-box, toy soldier, and more.
- The first American paper dolls were commercially produced as a children’s toy based on Bostons J. Belcher’s “The History and Adventures of Little Henry” in 1812.
- The dolls accompanied a children’s book and were designed to act out various scenes as the narratives unfolded.
- Paper dolls grew in popularity over time.
- Newspapers and magazines published paper dolls both as playthings and as vehicles to illustrate current fashions for girls and women.
- Paper dolls from different decades send a message about the role of women at the time and what society valued.
- Relive your childhood with paper dolls from your past.
