The fashionable doll and friends

These 21 inch full-figured dolls wear elaborate formal gowns and fancy accessories. They are similar to fashion dolls that took the doll market by storm in the 1950’s. Many early fashion dolls were created from hard plastic with glued on wigs for hair and even some legs or arms with joints...remind you of any common doll today? Smaller fashion dolls of about 6-9inches were very popular and magazines like Cosmopolitan and Vogue created their own dolls to accompany magazines. Dolls came with outfits and these could be swapped and treasured by the owner and serve as a historical reference of fashions of the day.

Dolls above by Andrew Yang, who has created a line of “supermodel” rag dolls dressed in miniature versions of Spring 2010 designs. The dolls sell for around $600.

Today, original fashion dolls are worth a mint if kept in pristine condition, however they were great toys at their time of creation as well as functioning as fashionable accompaniments. Barbie became the most popular doll of the time and helped end the attention to detail that was first included in fashion dolls. There is evidence to suggest fashion dolls were around in 1396 to display dresses for royalty. Fashion dolls became a high part of the fashion trade in the 17th Century as French designers would send dolls displaying miniature versions of their designs to England, Germany, Spain and Italy!
Their miniature size was useful in the depression’s as it meant less fabric wastage.

Blogs… do they really have an impact?

A blog is a website set up by anyone for almost any purpose. These blogs can advertise products like http://pigeonhole.com.au/news/ (which advertises new arrivals for the pigeonhole stores), share ones thoughts through poetry and random articles like http://imjustelisa.blogspot.com/ or display pretty picture upon picture or fashionable images and fantastic outfits such as http://lookbook.nu/new

Blogs are becoming increasingly popular and it seems most people have one. They are free and simple to set up and who doesn’t want to post their thoughts and pictures on the internet for all to see with a simple click of a button and internet service!

Some may say that blogs are the new magazine or even zine but I think they will never replace either form of media. Things on the internet can almost seem too accessible and common whereas a zine is handmade and a magazine (and zine) can be flicked through, not just stared at in awe.

aamener is also on the blogscene (you are witnessing it now...) The benefits of a blog are its accessibility, the ease that one hyperlink can show the reader a whole page to reference and admire other people’s blogs or photos and the flexibility involved with uploading more thoughts, articles and photos whenever and not needing to create a whole new zine!

Blogs… do they really have an impact?

A blog is a website set up by anyone for almost any purpose. These blogs can advertise products like http://pigeonhole.com.au/news/ (which advertises new arrivals for the pigeonhole stores), share ones thoughts through poetry and random articles like http://imjustelisa.blogspot.com/ or display pretty picture upon picture or fashionable images and fantastic outfits such as http://lookbook.nu/new

Blogs are becoming increasingly popular and it seems most people have one. They are free and simple to set up and who doesn’t want to post their thoughts and pictures on the internet for all to see with a simple click of a button and internet service!

Some may say that blogs are the new magazine or even zine but I think they will never replace either form of media. Things on the internet can almost seem too accessible and common whereas a zine is handmade and a magazine (and zine) can be flicked through, not just stared at in awe.

aamener is also on the blogscene (you are witnessing it now...) The benefits of a blog are its accessibility, the ease that one hyperlink can show the reader a whole page to reference and admire other people’s blogs or photos and the flexibility involved with uploading more thoughts, articles and photos whenever and not needing to create a whole new zine!

dolls undressed, a brief history and an introduction to their personalities... their clothes are in my zine, get hold of my zine to dress them!

The humble paper doll drawn on paper and accompanied by clothes to cut out was first manufactured in 1810, Little Fanny, produced by S&J Fuller, London.

Soon to appear in America was The History and Adventures of Little Henry, published by J. Belcher of Boston in 1812.
While the London doll was the first manufactured doll, there is evidence dating back to 900 AD in Japan at an ancient purification ceremony where a doll was dressed in a kimono and set to sea in a boat.


Record of the dolls being used for the “entertainment of wealthy adults” dates back to the 1700’s in the fashion centres of Vienna, Berlin, London and Paris.
Paper dolls provide an insight into fashion. They hold the trends of when they were created.