Matilda Billinge argues that paper dolls are woven into the fabric of female fashion across time Last term, I was attending a zine-making workshop at The Iris Café when a page from one of the vintage ...

The year was 1959 in Vigo County. An 8-year-old girl bounds excitedly toward the front door. The postman had just delivered the McCall’s magazine and she couldn’t wait to cut out the paper dolls ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

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, they enticed us ...

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 ...