WASHINGTON — A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, ...

Matilda Billinge argues that paper dolls are woven into the fabric of female fashion across time Last term, I was attending a zine-making workshop at The Iris Café when a page from one of the vintage ...

Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...

Q-How would one go about learning the value of old paper dolls and if there is a market for them? Nancy P., Barrington. A-I suggest you attend the Old Chicago Paper Doll Party `85 from 1:30 to 3:30 ...

Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls — hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans — were nearly as rarefied as the real-life versions of the towering headdresses and ruffled gowns they ...