As children Naomi and I spent hours playing with paper dolls. Today we both still love the graphics and have been happy to find that many of our childhood favourites are now available as reproductions. Finding original paper dolls in good condition is pretty hard but sometimes you can get lucky.
We plan to write a series of posts featuring paper dolls from our own collections. Naomi loves the celebrity paper dolls featuring movie and television stars. I like the ones I played with as a child and I like the fashions of previous decades. We both enjoy looking at the old Barbie and friends paper doll books.
Some of the really old paper doll books we are not familiar with so we’d love to get feedback from readers if anyone can ID dolls or has a story to tell about them. If you have paper dolls of your own that you would like to share I’d be delighted to feature them in a post if you send me a photo and some information about them. My email address is sadieinoz.1957@gmail.com
Posts about Paper Dolls
- Vintage Paper Dolls: Whitman Bridal Cut-Outs 1965
- Vintage Games: I Wish I Were
- What Was Under The Tree?
- Vintage Paper Dolls: Candy’s Rave Doll Dressing Book
- The Four Mary’s Part Four: Magic Mary Lou
- Vintage Paper Dolls: Doll’s Outfitting Shop Activity Book
- Digital Paper Dolls
- Tammy; Little Golden Activity Book #A52
- Vintage Paper Dolls – Part Twenty -The Tammy Family
- Vintage Paper Dolls: Part Nineteen – Dot and Peg
Links
Paper Doll Review – Buy Paper Dolls
Free Paper Dolls – Just what it says, print free paper dolls
Paper Studio Press – Reproduction and modern paper dolls, information about paper doll artists.
Paper Dolls by David Wolfe – Home page of paper doll artist David Wolfe, Articles about paper dolls, movie star bios.
Tom Tierney – interview with Tom Tierney on Dover Press website.
OPDAG – Original Paper Doll Artists Guild
Dolls, Dolls, Dolls 