Did anyone else have those paper dolls you pressed out from a book and dressed in costumes with tabs to hook over the shoulders?
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Did anyone else have those paper dolls you pressed out from a book and dressed in costumes with tabs to hook over the shoulders?
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Oh! Yes. And i was very bad at it.
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I wonder if you can still buy them. They lit my imagination. I liked the historical costumes
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Yes, I did. I loved them. I still make them sometimes even now though these days I just glue their clothes on and then make more people!
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If I make them again, I think I will include the tabs. That seemed to be an integral part of the process, bending the tabs neatly!
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Yes. My older cousins could always do it, and I tended to get the outfits on the poor dolls so haphazardly…
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Always a risk of a slip and an inadvertant flash!
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Yes. Those paper dolls, what a life they led. This whole conversation is making me want to get busy on a set and then play with them. I’m retired now and I have time again. Why not?
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Now you’ve made me think of those cut out paper chains of men. I used to felt tip them in with distinct clothes and features and give them names. We can people our own worlds! Would love to see your new paper dolls, I particularly liked your painted stick people posted recently and that has gone into my ‘ideas’ mental draw. They’d look good lined up on my terrace. Pity I don’t live near you, I would follow behind on your art drop off and nab everything!
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Thank you. As for the stick people, I think you might enjoy making your own, they are easy, and from what you say about paper dolls, I am sure you would have a great crowd of them before you know it. two requirements for the sticks, hit any candidates against a hard surface to make sure they are not rotten, and..wash them in the dishwasher to get rid of bugs. Otherwise a difficulty free experience! As for the holding hands paperdolls, I remember when my grandmother showed me how to do them, it was a revelation kind of moment and I made lots and lots, doing the same thing as you, giving them their own outfits and faces. I liked to stand them up as a group, displaying them in windowsills.
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Paper dolls! Hours and hours of time well spent. (K)
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Simple fun! You could get different era’s fashions. Wonderful!
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My sister had comics with this in. It wasn’t an idea that seemed very practical in reality. They do it now with instagram.
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Instagram? I wonder if it’d give the same thrill. Dressing someone, dressing something seems to be an important early part of play. For boys as well?
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Sort of for boys as well. But I think it was different, at least for me. I mean this was the sixties and seventies. There was not much to do. But the impression I get is that my sister was identifying with the paper dolls trying on the clothes, whereas I didn’t. So when I see my daughter on Instagram, I think she’s doing something similar using electronics, playing with her self image, identifying herself through how she is seen. My son doesn’t do this at all. So this is a gendered thing in my own experience. I guess this is likely conditioning but unclear how it happened.
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That’s interesting. I was seeing it more like how we dressed a teddy bear, but it was also a way, I guess, of experiencing having lots of different, nicer clothes. My kids had wooden pieces of bears where you could mix and match bottoms, tops and heads. I liked playing with them too!
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Yes, I had them too, but never with such jazzy prints.
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No, they were on the staid side!
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Reblogged this on sketchuniverse and commented:
🔶🔹🔶🔹WELL DARLINGS, TODAY WE’VE GOT A “FFFF” (FINE ARTS WITH FASHION. A FANTASTIC FORUM). PURE PLEASURE ❗
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