One Way to Have Fun

Several summers ago, (remember summer?), I found a large box of old paper dolls at a flea market. It was towards the end of the day, and people were starting to close up their tables. I asked the young girl who was minding this one how much for the box. She hesitated and said "$10"? As if that was going to be too much. I hope I didn't seem to hasty taking out my money! I could hardly wait to take them home, dump them out, and sort through them. There were many different books and boxes of dolls and clothes. I resold a lot of the movie star and baby doll ones. But these I kept because there is just something about girls and teenagers with clothes from this era that I love. I think they are late 1930's or early 1940's. Someone help me if you know for sure, there is no date. This is the front of the box. Since I really don't have anyone here to play paper dolls with, I'd thought I'd share some of them with you. They are not complete, even though it says complete on the front of the box. The little girl who owned them had loving cut out the clothes, so I scanned all of them in that were there. Not everyone has a pants outfit for example. But there are enough things to have fun. First, here is Patty, when she is little, and then grown up. If you click on her and save the image in it's largest form onto your computer, they should print out the right size. The tall one is 25cm, and the little one is about 19 1/2 cm. I used card stock, and then fashioned my own stands, because those were missing too.
Here is Peggy. Doesn't she look like the tomboy? And finally, Polly. I was in utter dismay to discover that her grown up doll was altogether missing. So I just made a copy from the cover of the box. You will have to use your creativity, and trim her arm so it looks right. But it's the best I could do. I tried finding another original doll like her to no avail. I did locate one of these sets on an auction site, but they ended up going way too high for my thrift store budget.

And here are a couple sets of clothes to get you started. I have a lot more.. but maybe this is enough.... until tomorrow...?