How about some sharing.
At some point after escaping my 23 year sentence, I hit a point of so low on money that I basically sold everything not nailed down. A lot of the childhood toys went, some for pretty good prices for vintage toys.
The biggest winner was the Computer House of Cards for a hundred and some bucks. Probably that'll be thousands in the future, but, oh well, it had to go.
So did the paper doll collection, but I scanned the favoritest ones first.
Here they are in order of favoritestness.
Star Princess
The two different girls. I loved this character. Had the coloring books too. I wished she could have been real instead of "it was all just a dream". What's wrong with being zapped to another planet and made into a space princess?
Strawberry Sue
A character made just to be a paper doll, as far as I know.
These were the fashions of my time, and I like them.
One of those things to ponder if there's nothing else bouncing around in your brain ATM. (And if I have a moment of nothing bouncing around in my brain but that, I'd call it a good moment.)
To what extent is my taste mine, or how much a product of the era I happened to be born?
I think I would have liked the colonial times, the working woman's garb anyway. But I wouldn't necessarily have liked being a working woman at that time. We're just talking preferences.
I wouldn't have liked the Regency period, not my thing at all.
The 1830s would have been okay, those dresses were very nice, beautiful, romantic, not uncomfortable. I like the huge sleeves and small waist. Up to 1850ish and then it just started getting dumb. Actually the little tight white collar would have bugged me more than the big skirt.
I'm glad I didn't live in the bustle era.
1910s, the Gibson Girl and the shirtwaist, hmm, okay maybe.
I would not have made it as a flapper! Not with the shape I was blessed with, haha. I have a rear end that makes a bustle unnecessary. And the 1920s simply impossible.
I LOVED the 1950s, and then what the heck happened in the 60s. Suddenly it's the high, tight neckline again, but now with knees showing? Who could stand that? How did they move?
But I would be comfortable and feel pretty in everything in Sue's wardrobe (except the pants).
I loved the patchwork and peasant styles of the 70s. It's like they conceded just enough to the hippies to make themselves human.
The 80s were pretty amazing, those colors, the metallic fabric, the big hair. Best admired from a distance. I kinda missed the whole thing, I was out in the woods.
What they seriously expected women to wear in the 90s? Take a big square bag, cut a hole for your neck, and your legs stick out the bottom, then applique something cute in front, or a gigantic Puritan white collar. Ugh.
Is it just me or do we not have styles any more? Seems like the 90s was the last gasp of anything resembling an era. Now we wear whatever we like.
Or is it because I'm old now? I've viewed a few guides to the "styles" of the aughts and beyond, and scrutinize though I will, I can't see a pattern.
It's almost like Western Civ went through a whole cycle of "FASHION" with extremes in every direction - shoulders, skirts, waists, arms, neck (ruff), arms (slash and puff) - and now we've dropped all that, and we're basically back to the 12th century, before sumptuary laws, before the body began to be squished into the shape required by the examples of your betters, when we cut whatever we could out of the fabric available to go around the body we had.
Only now the results are prettier.
The Ginghams
I love the 70s interpretation of prairie style. This isn't what they wore to cross the prairie buuuut... maybe. Why not.
Golden Dream Barbie
She is completely the 80s.
Denim Deb
Miss America 1979
Ballerina Barbie
Pretty Changes Barbie
Historical Sarah Doll
I don't remember what the set was actually called.
Olde Fashioned Dollies
Again, don't remember the name. There was a third figure, another adult, but her body looked too much like a marionette and not like a woman. I've always disliked dolls with gaps at the joints. What would it feel like to have a body like that? Probably pretty uncomfortable! I'd prefer the smooth body, even if it can't move much.
German Heidi
Of unknown origin. I wish I could remember.
A couple one page favorites.
Big pile of two mixed "Wedding Party" sets.
One of these came in the back of a coloring book and was one of my treasured possessions as a child.
