Doll: *Victorian Children Paper Dolls

$8.00

TD45047
Item: 
Paper Doll Set: Victorian Children Paper Dolls, uncut, 2 dolls and 15 pages of clothing, 29 costumes for gardening, a dinner party, formal dance, boating, tennis, baseball, other activities. Rendered with period accuracy and precise detail. Evelyn Gathings, original, not reproduced
Circa: 
1996
Company: 
General Publishing Company
Condition: 
used, like new, NEW OLD STOCK

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Featured is a wonderful Victorian Children Paper Dolls Set.

  • Paper dolls let us enter the world of movie stars and we became clothes designers and stylists for them.
  • The first American paper doll commercially produced as a children’s toy was Boston-based 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.
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