Doll: *Pat Crowley Paper Dolls

Featured is a wonderful Pat Crowley Paper Dolls Set. Paper dolls let us enter the world of movie stars and we became clothes designers and stylists for them. The first American paper doll commercially produced as a children’s toy was Boston-based J. Belcher’s “The History and Adventures of Little Henry” in 1812. The dolls accompanied a children’s book and were designed to act out various scenes as the narratives unfolded. Paper dolls grew in popularity over time. Newspapers and magazines published paper dolls both as playthings and as vehicles to illustrate current fashions for girls and women. Paper dolls from different decades send a message about the role of women at the time and what society valued. An enduring archetype was the bride paper doll.