AUTHENTIC GOWNS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ; 3 PAPER DOLLS

The Victorian Paper Doll Wardrobe/3 Paper Dolls With 12 Costumes

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Meehan, Norma Lu

Antiques & Collectibles

Hobby House Pr Inc

The third in the series which began with the Victorian Paper Doll Wardrobe. The dolls and gowns are uniquely interchangeable in Norma Lu Meehan's authoritative costume series. 3 dolls and 12 costumes.

Art Deco Paper Doll Wardrobe 1920-1939

Enjoy illustrated paper doll story of six young cousins who gather every summer in their grandmother's home. 18 costumes dating from the 1860-1930 and 6 accessories.

Nana's Trunk Paper Dolls

Crafts & Hobbies

Return to a world preparing to enter World War II and then adapting to a new peacetime in this wardrobe of two changing women's fashions decades. 3 dolls and 14 costumes.

Fashion of the '40s & '50s Paper Doll Wardrobe

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design

Hobby House Press, Inc.

Drawn from the Jerry Silverman/Shannon Rodgers Collection at the Kent State University Museum, this paper-doll costume history features 31 costumes from 1750 to 1900. Each doll and costume has a curatorial description on the back, and each page contains inset details of fabric or constructions, some photographic.Narrative includes the curators introduction to costumes of the period and the artist’s sense of the collection itself, as well as a glossary and bibliography, making the work indispensable not only to the general audience and collectors but also to students and scholars of costume, theater, and reenactment.

Collection by Design: A Paper Doll History of Costume 1750–1900

Druesedow, Jean

History

Texas Tech University Press

The glamour of the first half of the twentieth century is well represented in this generous sampling of the Kent State University Museum Collection, founded by internationally renowned designers Kent Rodgers and Jerry Silverman. Reflecting the aesthetic, social, political, and economic influences on design between 1900 and 1949, these exquisite examples of period dress represent not only a new century, but a new world.Druesedow’s introduction takes an engaging historic peek at the dramatically evolving aesthetic that left its stamp on fashion and social custom and took us from the tightly corseted but casually elegant “American look” captured by Charles Dana Gibson to the fashion designs of Hollywood’s Gilbert Adrian in the 1940s, and, by the late 1940s, to the portal of the House of Dior.Through these expertly drawn reproductions and accompanying curatorial narrative, costumers, collectors, curators, historians, and teachers and students of design can have ready access to what is undoubtedly the “best of show.”

Collection by Design II: A Paper Doll History of Costume, 1900–1949

Druesedow, Jean L.

The American obsession with weddings and wedding gowns is evident at least as early as 1850, when the March issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book included a colored plate in its feature on bridal dress. Yet brides who feed the nation’s current obsession to the tune of more than $160 billion annually may be astonished to learn how much things have changed. Fashion illustrator Norma Lu Meehan and costume curator Mei Campbell draw upon collections at the Northern Indiana Center for History and the Museum of Texas Tech University to illuminate the evolution of wedding dress in the United States from 1859 to 1899. This exquisitely illustrated work situates the white wedding dress and current perceptions of tradition within a surprisingly varied and colorful history.FROM THE BOOKWhen Americans think of Victorian wedding dress . . . we recall antique photographs and tintypes, possibly family heirlooms or those we’ve seen in museums. Though these images, like the gowns on these pages, certainly do not reflect the breadth of American cultural custom and practice, even in that era, they do reveal how much of mainstream America—particularly a rising middle class—saw itself and how it aspired to be seen. We can begin to understand how an increasingly affluent America became smitten with a British queen and with a fashion phenomenon that over the next century would become an economic and cultural force beyond imagining.

Victorian Wedding Dress in the United States: A History through Paper Dolls

Campbell, Mei

Never before has there been a paper doll book with such a beautiful bounty of fashions for the bride and groom, plus her attendants. From OPDAG, the Original Paper Doll Artists Guild, comes a new book unlike any other, ever. On the covers are the lovely bride and her handsome groom plus a pretty bridesmaid and a charming little flower girl, paper dolls created by noted artist, Norma Lu Meehan. Inside the book, page after page after page of fashions to cut out and dress the bridal party, all created by 48 OPDAG artists, ranging from artistic amateurs to high profile professionals. Traditional and contemporary gowns, fantasy and vintage wedding wear plus some highly original and imaginative ideas, too. Everything from fairy tale treatments to steampunk, from foreign cultures to futuristic fashions, there are 170 outfits in this big, beautiful bridal paper doll book.

Dress a Bridal Party Paper Dolls: 4 dolls and 170 outfits by 48 artists of the Original Paper Doll Artists Guild

Taliadoros, Jenny

Paper Studio Press

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