Twin Babies

This cute baby set was a gift from my mother.  It's too cute!  This set is Twin Babies from Merrill publishing dated 1942.  The Twins Tommy and Sue have matching outfits, Tommy has a lot of pink!  I love the soft pastel colors of vintage baby paper dolls.  Not sure that it is complete, because Sue has more hats and 1 more outfit then Tommy.  8 outfits for Tommy and 9 for Sue.  The dolls also have a crib and carriage.  There is a reproduction of this set available I believe.

Festival Togs in Thailand

this magazine page is from Golden magazine April 1968.  The artist is Neva Schultz.  It features a boy and girl from Thailand with traditional costumes.  Each doll has 1 outfit and headpiece.  I love that the dolls have bare feat on the outfits but shoes on the base. 

Ruth

Here's another American Colortype Company.  This one has 1 uncut doll, 1 uncut outfit, and 2 cut outfits (missing hats).  The doll is 605-Ruth.  The coat is 837- Skating Girl.  The blue dress is 831- Afternoon Dress, and the kimono is 876- Geisha Girl.  Mary Young's 20th Century Paper Dolls book is great to help identify these.

New Round About Dolls

This is not a complete set but a partial set.  The New Round About Doll Book (#559) was published McLoughlin in 1939. The artist is Betty Campbell (who did many round about books).  This is only 6 out of the 14 dolls and only 6 dresses.  Back in school, so my schedule is super busy.

Favorite Historical Period

Can you believe this month is almost over?!  I certainly can't!  For the month of August, the theme for the collaboration project was favorite historical period. My first thought is... none... but of course, you have to choose.  I thought of the 1920s and 1950s but I choose Rococo.  Rococo is a French artistic movement from 18th century. according to Wikipedia "usually covers the kind of ornament, style and design associated with Louis XV's reign and the beginning of that of Louis XVI"  Big dresses with lots of layers and bows and lace and hair up to the sky!  I imagine this in a soft pink or maybe muted gold? The rococo period has such an opulence and lovely details, so that's why I choose it as my favorite. 


For more outfits for this doll drawn by me click here

Paper Doll School here
Paper Thin Persona here
Pop Culture Paper Dolls  here

Barbie Christmas Charm

This may be one of my favorite Barbie paper dolls ever.  This four page magazine doll is from the Barbie Bazaar Magazine December Issue 1988 (Year and month I was born).  This paper doll is beautiful rendered by Barb Rausch.  Barb Rausch drew the Barbie comic books as well.  The pages include a very classic Barbie and her little sister Skipper along with 3 outfits for skipper and 4 outfits for barbie.  Also an adorably tiny barbie doll with 4 classic outfits.  Most of the outfits feature red and pink colors, all are labeled with the number of the outfit, except the Santa costume, which is not a real Barbie dress, but thrown in for fun (very Katy Keene).  The pages are decorated with extra presents and fun Christmas ornament edge.  I've already started seeing whispers of Christmas in stores, so I decided to share this early.

Jane's Wardrobe

This doll has 4 outfits and a hat.  Notice the name is not Jane Arden's Wardrobe, but just Jane's Wardrobe.  This newspaper doll is from 8-1-1948