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 history ...

WASHINGTON — A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, ...

Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...

Zelda Fitzgerald once gauged a publisher's interest in creating a collection filled with the striking paper dolls she made for her daughter, but the book she imagined never materialized. More than 70 ...

A good friend told me that she and some family members went to the movies to see the new “Barbie.” She shared that the movie was packed, and this was not a surprise because she was aware that it had ...

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 start, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the 1940s, during Helen Popenoe's elementary school years, she collected and played with paper dolls. This collection consists of the dolls ...

I wasn’t really a fashion-focused tween, but I spent a lot of time in the mid-aughts looking for paper doll games that I could use to create my original characters. I think that must have been how I ...