Taswegian1957

Digital Paper Dolls


Naomi recently gave me some Tammy paper dolls that she had printed out from a pdf file. As you know she loves to buy vintage paper dolls and reproductions but now the cost of shipping the repro books has become so high that it’s hard to justify buying them any more so she has turned to digital downloads.

These paper dolls are Tammy and her fashions, the only problem was that when Naomi printed them she discovered that the doll was way bigger than the clothes meaning that we are going to have to fiddle with the settings to either reduce the size of the doll or increase the size of the clothes.

I decided that I would photograph the fashions because they are very nice. I have not looked yet to see if they are actual Tammy fashions. Paper doll makers often reproduced the actual clothes the dolls had and they are actually a great reference for finding vintage outfits. While I was going through them I discovered a second doll who is the same size as the clothes so about half of them can be used. As often happens the two dolls are facing in opposite directions so they can’t share oufits.

Small Tammy

I haven’t photographed everything in detail but when we have figured out the sizes, cut the dolls out and put them on a cardboard backing I will definitely do that.

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Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

7 comments

  1. This brings back memories of many happy hours spent playing with paper dolls. Such a shame that these beautifully illustrated dolls and clothes are no longer being produced.
    Unfortunately the cost of shipping has affected all aspects of the doll hobby.
    I hope you and Naomi will be able to resize the dolls & clothes.

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    • As the second doll is in scale with the clothes I think I would try to scale the larger one down even though I think the originals might have been larger. We didn’t mind paying $25 for a couple of paper doll books to be shipped. If you bought two or three it was manageable but now it’s more like $50 and by the time we’ve added GST which we never used to have to pay, and accounted for the exchange rate it just comes out as too much. We could use that money for buying more stuff. We occasionally buy from the UK as a lot of our interests are British toys and from Canada as the shipping is slightly less mad.

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