tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post7002416247092523144..comments2024-03-28T23:25:07.821+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-68565844537045856472017-05-14T04:45:41.432+01:002017-05-14T04:45:41.432+01:00Paper dolls were the only dolls I enjoyed playing ...Paper dolls were the only dolls I enjoyed playing with. Otherwise, I was always cuddling something furry.Lorettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221912846080982576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-20643396737136720132017-05-14T04:04:42.845+01:002017-05-14T04:04:42.845+01:00I loved playing with paper dolls, too. BTW: Helen&...I loved playing with paper dolls, too. BTW: Helen's website is well done - I enjoyed going through it.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17339740389637433983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-51388328090578101562017-05-13T16:55:25.837+01:002017-05-13T16:55:25.837+01:00I loved my paper dolls too. I have the most pleasa...I loved my paper dolls too. I have the most pleasant memories of the Betsy McCall dolls in the McCalls magazine. Since the doll was on magazine paper my older brother would paste the doll to cardboard and carefully cut it out for me. Remarkable because he was 12 years older so he would have been 16 or 17 at the time. <br />I also got to choose a new "cut out book" each time we went to town. They were usually the popular movie actresses of the time. I can remember having a Gale Storm and a Debbie Reynolds.Theresa Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03561062155625437881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-13355859538588426792017-05-13T14:27:21.132+01:002017-05-13T14:27:21.132+01:00My mother (born in Canada in 1919 to British emigr...My mother (born in Canada in 1919 to British emigré parents) told me about the paper dolls from books that she had as a child. She said she would make more outfits for them by coloring and cutting out paper with tabs, in order to vary their outfits. Later when she was a teenager growing up in Santa Ana, California, she made her own clothes (and later in life, too. She branched into millinery in the 50s and made her own hats as well. Sadly she never taught me to sew or cook, she had no patience or love for children in general, and me in particular.catmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340783525589988900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-61792690232098575112017-05-13T11:32:42.668+01:002017-05-13T11:32:42.668+01:00So funny about the Rice Krispies. I remember play...So funny about the Rice Krispies. I remember playing eagerly with paper dolls (maybe McCalls?) in my early childhood and then television came along... ChloeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-57491168111047114842017-05-13T07:23:08.234+01:002017-05-13T07:23:08.234+01:00Search Google for paper dolls images for a nostalg...Search Google for paper dolls images for a nostalgia kick. Loved my own paper dolls, and my sister and I also used to cut our own from catalgues and have whole schools filled with them.<br />JennySAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-74820440002937729252017-05-13T03:48:42.907+01:002017-05-13T03:48:42.907+01:00We had paper dolls but in Canada we called them &q...We had paper dolls but in Canada we called them "cut-outs". I remember movie stars but none for royals - for those, many girls around my age (10) created a scrapbook of newspaper & magazine photos in a "scrapbook of the queen" when she and Prince Philip visited in 1959. Maybe there were cutouts - certainly, I think, little commemorative booklets - for more urban and/or prosperous kids.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568215693665518362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-10090065805308152432017-05-13T03:45:27.121+01:002017-05-13T03:45:27.121+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568215693665518362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-51573195969569334852017-05-13T03:27:01.086+01:002017-05-13T03:27:01.086+01:00I had paper dolls of all kinds throughout my child...I had paper dolls of all kinds throughout my childhood. Dover still prints paper dolls and even had paper dolls of the pope, last time I looked. Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04339450293001221419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-66619316520170546262017-05-12T22:51:39.499+01:002017-05-12T22:51:39.499+01:00How I loved my paper dolls too. I don't rememb...How I loved my paper dolls too. I don't remember anything as exciting as the coronation ones - could they perhaps have been produced by Dover pulishers? They still do a wonderful range, of which I bought a few, in my bookshop days, but, being a rotten Mother, would not allow my chidren to cut out. <br />At one stage, "Rice Krispies" breakfast cereal had a series of dolls on the packet back - national costumes from around the world. I ate a lot of the cereal which I really didn't like!jeanfromcornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062674591619616456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-59746010663840618882017-05-12T22:15:54.959+01:002017-05-12T22:15:54.959+01:00Oh I loved paper dolls. I had a set from the Smit...Oh I loved paper dolls. I had a set from the Smithsonian of First Lady inaugural gowns, as I recall, among others. There were lots of Bride paper dolls, too. My best friend and I would design outfits for them and color them in. Mary Louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588244535423212079noreply@blogger.com