Just a quick update before a weekend in which I hope to have actually paper dolls to post for you! These are some fabulous hats from the French magazine La Saison (1885). These are lovely examples of the typical excess of hair/head accessories in this era: lots of ribbons, bows, lace, feathers, and flowers. Bonnets were long gone and these toppers made excellent stages for all sorts of flights of fancy (including actual whole birds). Will have to find an example of a "birded" hat for you.
Height was the "height" of fashion in the mid-1880s with women's hair and hair accessories jacking upward in amazing ways. Fashionable hair and hats would not come back down until the turn of the century.
My goal this weekend is to get some dolls done so that I can make good on a very long long ago promise that there would actually be original dolls to download and play with. It's taken me forever to make decisions about what I wanted to do with the characters, but I've finally come to the conclusion that it's now or never, so I better get on with it. Also, now that my scanner is working again, I hopefully won't have any trouble posting the work. Yay!
Height was the "height" of fashion in the mid-1880s with women's hair and hair accessories jacking upward in amazing ways. Fashionable hair and hats would not come back down until the turn of the century.
My goal this weekend is to get some dolls done so that I can make good on a very long long ago promise that there would actually be original dolls to download and play with. It's taken me forever to make decisions about what I wanted to do with the characters, but I've finally come to the conclusion that it's now or never, so I better get on with it. Also, now that my scanner is working again, I hopefully won't have any trouble posting the work. Yay!
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