A gorgeous 1840s English gown 10/30/2009
 The painting is of Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts Angela was, in 1837, the wealthiest woman in England. You can read more about her at the above link, but you might like to know that in contrast to some heiresses today, she used her immense fortune toward charity, for the most part. She also, at an advanced age, "shocked polite society" by marrying her young secretary who was 40 years her junior. The painting, done in the 1840s, shows her as a young woman in a beautiful gown (click on the picture to see larger). She kinda looks like Dolly Madison on the doughnut and cookies boxes (for those of you who remember the old advertisements). ALSO: As promised, on Halloween (tomorrow) I am kicking off a new paper doll blog based on a couple of favorite comic book series of mine. The initial dolls are finished and posted already. You can set a new bookmark to: Comic Book Chronicles to join the fun! CommentsFri, 30 Oct 2009 07:51:25 Comic book paperdolls! Excellent :D Looking forwards to it! I don't really know these comics very well, but I totally dig the skeleton paper doll guy... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:25:34 thank you Liana! your character costumes over the years have always inspired me, so i thought this was an area where i could just go crazy and someone else has already done all the designing for me. Leave a Reply | Paper Dolls
Here you will find dolls to go with the paper doll clothing. These are all characters from my online webcomic series called Reconstruction. To see all of the posts related to a particular character, click their name in the list under "Categories" below.   CategoriesAll  ArchivesOctober 2009 |
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