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Letter From The Editor

“[We have been] blessed and prospered beyond any people on this globe.

Should we not be thankful, and keep high holiday of gratitude and gladness in acknowledgement of these national blessings?”

Sarah Josepha Hale – Godey’s Lady’s Book, November 1859 Dear Readers, One November I decided to present a program to my doll club called “The Thanksgiving Connection.” My mind began to run amok as it conjured up associations between dolls and our Thanksgiving holiday. For example: Madame Alexander’s Tony Sarg marionettes. Hadn’t puppeteer Tony Sarg been the one to create the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons?

And Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. Wasn’t she the driving force behind Thanksgiving becoming a National Holiday, and didn’t New England dollmaker Ruth Gibbs (much later) create Godey’s Little Lady Dolls inspired by Godey’s Lady’s Book? It turned out to be a fun, albeit a bit unusual, doll club meeting.

Our cover story this month honors stunning examples of eighteenthcentury English woodens dressed by the Cree Indians of Canada. Costume curator, scholar, and doll historian Elizabeth Ann Coleman weaves together the fascinating facts behind these special dolls giving us an indepth look into their detailed clothing, as well as the Cree nation.

Melanie Luther offers another study of fashion with her article on the much-coveted miniature accessories for French Fashion dolls and the publications that inspired these tiny treasures.

Popular fashionista Barbie® is back in the limelight where Eliza de Sola Mendes not only takes us on a tour of the “Barbie: A Cultural Icon” exhibition when it was at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City but also offers insights from the museum’s receiving curator, Barbara Paris Gifford, as well as costume historian Karan Feder, the show’s curator (in partnership with Tim Clothier of Illusion Projects, Inc. and Mattel).

And, Samy Odin shares his beautifully dressed Embroidery Paper Dolls.

We catch a glimpse into the “Dolls & All That Jazz” UFDC Convention’s Competitive Exhibit as well as the Norfolk Doll Dreamers Market.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, our Readers, from all of us at Antique DOLL Collector magazine.

Laurie McGill Editor-in-Chief

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34” CM Depose Tete Jumeau 16 w/ applied ears, brown PW eyes, blue marked Tete Jumeau body, original shoes, antique clothing $3450.

13.5” All Original brown skin Circle Dot Bru Jne on Chevrot body, fabulous face & brown PW eyes, caracul wig, marked Bru Jne shoes, amazing piece, dress material fragile, left forefinger professionally repaired $26,000.

21” CM Pouty Kestner 14, blue stat eyes, early compo & wood straight wrist body, pale bisque w/ beautiful painting, antique clothing $2050.

10” Kestner Baby Jean, blue sl eyes, beautiful baby body $150.

17” Armand Marseille 1936 Painted Bisque Shirley Temple, blue flirty eyed, 455 /46, original HH wig $445.

18” Ideal Shirley Temple “Hawiian Marama” put out for the promotion of the movie “The Hurricane”, all original, chipped rt toe, back of head split, crazing $245.

13” Jumeau 1 French Fashion, beautiful molding & coloring, orig. mohair wig, lt blue PW eyes $1295.

16” CM Kestner E 122 9 w/ brown sl eyes, early stiff wrist body, HH wig, 2 sm hairlines, silk dress $775.

Amazing OOAK Dolls by Sally S. Cutts & dressed by Lynn Murray 6.5” Black Lady - braided hair w/ bows & necklace, one back bow missing $395.

6 ¾” Lady wearing bonnet w/roses & feather, beautiful detailed coiffeur w/ ringlets, jewelry $495.

17” Kammer & Reinhart ? rubber face & arms, all original boy w/ brown painted eyes & wonderful facial features, crazing, amazing piece, missing 1 reed shoe $850.

19” K * R 115A ‘ Phillip’ on toddler body, blue sl eyes, antique shoes, sweet character face, great coloring $1295.

22” Josephine Baker & 2 Performers from her Folies Bergere Show, wonderful biscaloid portrait caricature of Josephine Baker the wonderful Cabaret performer $1150. Set

19” All Original Effanbee Wigged Patsy Ann, tagged dress, nice compo $195.

17.5” Schoenhut Boy, blonde mohair wig, blue painted eyes, redressed $225.

17” Kestner Century Baby, blue sl eyes, beautiful molding & coloring, compo arms / cloth body $275.

14” Simon & Halbig 1294 w/ flirty brown eyes, beautiful painting, orig mohair wig, vintage clothing $695.

20.5” WinklerPuppe by Ernst Winkler, compo shoulder plate, cloth body, ball jointed arms, rubber hands, compo ½ legs (repainted, blue painted eyes, mohair wig $295.

16.5” O/C Belton, br stat eyes, repaired eye chip (rt eye), repainted lower arms & legs, HH wig $325.

15.5” All Original Simon & Halbig 949 w GD Paris Depose shoes, blue sl eyes, Pink coat added, professionally repaired eyechip $695. 15” Kestner 143, br sl eyes, mohair wig, antique clothing, cabinet sized, 1 finger missing $495.

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2. 10” Early French paper mache girl in complete orig. country costume from a region of Northern France, sturdy leather body, has painted short hair with orig. human hair locks attached on top. $795.

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16” Charming wood body smiling Bru w/ sparkling blue eyes, dressed in antique checked wool dress w/ matching cap over original mohair wig. $7385 (parasol display only) Petite All Bisque Kestner in antique Marshall Field Germany box. 7” Black strapped boots, sleep eyes, excellent! $1795 11” Empress Eugénie as Young Lady - Very special petite young lady doll w/ stunning pale blue eyes, in possibly all original pink & crème silk two pc. costume w/ matching hat. Bisque arms, exceptional two-tone pink leather boots.

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17.5” Simon Halbig Fashion Doll - Gorgeous pale bisque, deep blue enamel eyes, lovely ginger mohair wig with braided elements, all situated on a pristine articulated wood body. Clothed in elegant navy-blue wool two-piece walking suit with bustle back, feathered chapeau and antique leather shoes with burgundy toe-tips. $8200 7” Burgundy silk parasol $750 Petite Antique travel bag known as “Sac d’ voyage.” $1400

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November 2025 Volume 28, Number 11

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16-inch and 13-inch English wooden dolls late 1700s, in original authentic costume of the Eastern Cree Indians who were major trading partners of the English Hudson Bay Company.

One-piece heads and torsos, painted-over-gesso complexion and facial features, blush spots; enamel inset eyes, dot lashes, dot-arched brows, cloth upper arms and wooden lower legs with hip jointing, and tacked-on human hair hand-knotted wig. Photo courtesy of Theriaults.

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BARBIE®: A CULTURAL ICON EXHIBITION Sixty-five Years of Fashion and Inspiration

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10 Paper Doll Stories

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20 2025 Doll Dreamers Market Review

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44 UFDC Convention Competitive Exhibit

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PAPER DOLL STORIES Embroidery Paper Dolls

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1) Mint 20” G.K. ‘Parlant’ pre-1900 French Export with Working Pull Cord Crier, early body, PW’s, fine linen antique clothes! $475; Mini 6” Lady Doll 1890’s CloMo, PWs, Bisque arms & boots, Orig Ensemble! Mint $275 2) Mint 19” Closed Mouth Kestner - flawless quality, bl. eyes, Mint Factory Wig, Pate, sgnd. Kestner body w. tailored Heirloom Ensemble. $1295

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3) Mint 19’Signed Eden Bebe - Paris 1890, adorable brunette femme, peaches’n cream bisque, lacy lashes, Cork Pate, rich PWs, vintage ’pretty in pink’ Couture as seen in Tina Berry book. Just $1295 4) Rare 15” Closed Mouth Kestner ‘181’ Character choice quality Painted Eye model, shapely sculpted lips, orig. Body/Wig, elegant ensemble w Factory Shoes. So dashing! Not $3800 just $1795 5) For the purist! 16” All Original Gloved Poupée with Wooden Arms - Factory Ensemble features her authentic Gloves, Boots, Cork Pate, uncut Mohair Wig. jtd. hands $3200 (see #24) 6) 1880’s Closed Mouth French Export - 11” cabinet gem, blue PWs, dreamy look, Cork Pate, Uncut Wig, French bjb in her Sweet Period Layers. (hidden no show flaw) So different! $1695 (lamb NFS)

7) Fine Quality 19” S.H.1078 - lovely brown complexion & big eyes, Orig. HH bjb, so beautifully presented in her elaborated Festive Ensemble w Posh Bonnet & Boots too! $1100 8) Rare 20” Two-Face Parian - mint leather body & lovely gown! One face has Glass Eyes, other side Closed Eyes! Flawless quality w Pierced Ears & brushstrokes! So stately. $2495 9) A 9” Candy Container Doll- early face, Crepe Paper Dress w Hat, Parasol, Purse! $495; Comical Cloth ‘Fop’ unique 9” Regency Style pot-belly Character w Red Hair! $145

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10) Unusual English Kittys - 15” tall Larger Than Life, fluffy, clean & pretty w Label! $350; Smaller Kitten 10” tall - clean & cute w collar! $295 11) Mint 8.5” Little Women - Artist made ca;1940, from KImport Doll w.

Booklet & written history. Plus, rare 9.5” Louise May Alcott Portrait Doll by the period artist E.A. Lewis w. history. All Cabinet Rarities! So artistic. $1495 12) 8” Unusual Mid-Century Santa – w. hooded robe, Tree & Lantern, Beard & Candy Basket. Rare biscaloid example. $595

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13) Life Size Bye-lo! 16.5” cir. head & 21” long, Bl.sl. eyes, org body/perf cello fingers, Attic Original! Gorgeous. $650; First Edition Bye-lo – 12” long, Socket Head on BLBB, made less than a year! With round normal size sl. eyes!

Heirloom in her Pink Crochets. $325 14) Rare Lullaby Teddy Mechanical - vintage 12” cutie rolls his head to music box lullaby.

Excel. Cond. $350; Mystery Maker Bye-lo Type - 10” Heirloom 1926 rarity ‘800’ Baby, orig. clothes w. Socket Head Bye-lo face. $395 15) All Original 20” Kruse ‘Ilsebill’ - pretty 1930, mint teen Doll VIII, silken Factory Wig & Dainty Dress, great facial paint. $950 16) 18” Rare Gunther Heine- this Mint KK type with the Orig. Paint, Swivel Head, Paper label, Clothes & Shoes is an impressive 1920’s Art Doll. Ribbon Worthy! $895 17) Early Cream 13” Teddy - clean, excel fur, Original Eyes, chunky straw filled body. $250; Mint Kestner Century Baby - adorable 16” character, perfect quality & condition. A one owner doll. $325 18) 10” German Bisque Character - liveliest Clown ever! Mold ‘245’ w Orig. Body & Costume! Quality! $550; Early Steiff ‘Molly’ smallest 4” size, all Three IDs, rare! $350 19) Rare & Outstanding 30” ‘Tommy Tucker’ 17” cir. head! - Gorgeous quality, Bl Sl Eyes, molded hair & personality plus! $1100; Victorian 6” by 8” Puzzle - litho blocks, 6-scenes, bright colors, orig. wooden box. $95 20) Life like 37” Bebe Cosmopolite - 17” head cir. Big blue sl. eyes, flawless bisque & orig chunky body, Attic Orig. Clothes, luscious full HH Wig. Not $1500 just $950; Kitten (see #10)

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21) Rarest Size 36” Tete Jumeau Closed Mouth - fully sgnd. 20” head w Applied Ears! Plus Bl. PWs, exquisite satin bisque.

Orig. Cork Pate & Full Factory Wig and Body w. Period Clothes, hidden making flaw behind left ear. A show stopping beauty! Not $8500 just $4395 22) 8.5” Block Letter F.G. Bebe with Rare Au Defi Label - w. Closed Mouth & articulated 2-tone lips, blue PWs, full Hip Length Mohair Tresses, Cork Pate, rptd. transitional Fully Jointed Body in her charming Factory Frock. So rare! Size ‘0’! $7500 (dog nfs) 23) Rare 10.5” Figure ‘C’ Steiner Bebe with Factory Wig/purple Pate, blue PWs, Closed Mouth. Her fully jointed Stiff Wrist Body signed in early Black Ink ‘Bebe Le Parisienne’. Wearing wonderfully intricate miniature lacework Factory Dress. Mint Cabinet Rarity! $6500 24) Factory Original 16” Wood Arm Poupée - for the purist; Gently aged, seated fashion, some fade, All Original from Earrings & her Mohair Wig to Original Gloves & Boots; bl PWs, chapeau, delectable satin bisque.

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25) A Stunning & Mint 24” Long Face Schmitt et Fils - a flawless richly dramatic blue eye beauty w Shaded Eyelids & breathy bisque. She has letter perfect artwork, the Cork Pate & Mint French HH Wig. Her body is the original mint Stiff Wrist Body with its beautiful paint and finish. She’s wearing a bold wine-red couture with its flamboyant Matching Chapeau & ivory leather Antique Shoes.

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Paper Doll Stories

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uring the nineteenth century, publishers did not seem to combine embroidery with the production of paper dolls. The first patent of which I am aware bears the number n. 1.067.923, dated July 22, 1913, and applied

by William T. Jefferson of Chicago on September 11, 1911. It consists of “an embroidery pattern comprising a cardboard doll having a printed face, arms and garments, said doll having perforations formed on the garment portion to receive embroidery stitches and a detachable outer garment having a printed garment pattern…” Alas, I have never seen a physical example of a lady paper doll based on this patent, for which I thankfully found a clear sketch. (Photo 1) In 1915, Jefferson’s patent was used by Kaufmann & Strauss, in New York, for a series of paper dolls representing children and not adult figures. Did Kaufmann and Strauss buy this patent from W. T. Jefferson? It is possible since the reference to this patent, with its same number, is clearly visible on the box of K&S’s paper dolls as well as on their tabs. I found four different sets from this series, bearing numbers 10 to 13. Only four paper doll sets out of this series are documented. Did numbers 1 to 9 apply to dolls or to some other plaything? The question is open.

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Kaufmann & Strauss, was an American Company specializing since the 1890s in “Fine Art and Advertising Novelties,” located at 75 & 77 Duane Street in New York. They imported, published, and manufactured a variety of advertising documents, including tin plaques, calendars, advertising cards, greeting cards… and paper dolls. They carried, for example, refined products published by Raphael Tuck, as well as a variety of advertising supports for breweries, which was their main specialty. This explains why prohibition was fatal to this business. In fact, the business collapsed during the early 1930s due to lack of orders from liquor producers.

The series of paper dolls corresponding to the 1915 patent is very well printed, on quality cardboard and was sold in thin boxes with a lid printed in black and white. Each doll came with four different outfits and matching headgear and sometimes an accessory, together with a small cardboard on which sewing thread was rolled.

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class attire, some of which are fully embroidered and some others not quite so. Even though the materials used by K&S were good, the use of these playthings damaged the majority of them. It is quite rare to find complete sets in overall good played-with condition.

I did not find any paper dolls printed during the 1920s pertaining to embroidery techniques. During that decade several paper dolls could wear real fabric garments (cfr. our column in June 2025 issue) but none meant to embroider paper parts. It is during the 1930s that another United States company, namely McLoughlin Bros Inc, published several variations of a paper doll set designed by Betty Campbell—The Fashion Book of Round About Dolls,” which hit the market in 1933 and remained in publication, over and over, for more than a decade. This set included two dolls printed on heavy cardboard together with thinner paper pages featuring their wardrobe. In the 1937 variation, called “The Sewing Book of Round About Dolls,” each piece of apparel could be enhanced by embroidered details that customers could add by hand to the prints. (Photo 6) All the paper dolls shown here are featured in the author’s collection. Samy Odin can be reached at galeriesamyodin@gmail.com

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he Doll Dreamers Market held its premiere show in July. This new show was created by show promoter and doll dealer, Anne Demuth, of Anniepoojewels and show co-sponsor Mary Senko, of World Doll Day Promotions. Together they welcomed an enthusiastic crowd of doll and bear collectors, delighted by the quality and quantity of dolls and accessories available at the new show. We’re hearing the 2026 New Orleans Doll Dreamers Market will be twice the size. Bravo to Anne Demuth and Mary Senko!

Collectors anxiously await the opening of the Doll Dreamers Market.

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On the Trail:

Rare 18th Century English Wooden Dolls Outfitted by Canadian Cree Indians ~ Part 1 ~

Information Assembled, with additional observations,

by Elizabeth Ann Coleman

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arlier this year I was invited to join a project documenting some of the doll and related artifacts in the make-yourmouth-water collections of Marion Maus-Greer. How could I possibly say no as I had a personal mission—a chance to examine, if not kidnap, at least two of my all-time most coveted dolls.1 I knew the dolls from publications and knew their background still offered areas for exploration. My aim is to help collectors understand why the value of these dolls is far beyond anything monetary and that like any good doll their mission remains as learning experiences for the whole of humanity.

Let us begin with our firmest footing, the dolls themselves: literally the headed torso bodies of two of the three dolls, the adult male (16 inches) and female (13 inches). They check many of the boxes of English peg jointed wooden dolls of the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Their one-piece head and torso was turned on a lathe with finishing details being carved—eye sockets, cheek, chin and mouth delineation, and an inserted nose. Their black and white enamel pupil-less glass eyes were inset and then the areas of wood that might be exposed were given a coating of gesso (a plaster substance for smoothing rough areas or adding a little mass if needed) and finished off with a layer of paint topped by red and black painted features and finished with a coating of varnish. Early doll collectors christened this type of doll “Queen Anne” after a British monarch whose reign included only the earliest versions of this type of doll. A more appropriate identifier would be “Late Georgian.” It was these finished, but unfinished, dowel-like artifacts that were shipped across the northernmost Atlantic around the end of the 1700s to what is now Canada. Unlike most outward-bound shipments of the day, they were not seen as trade goods, rather their role was to be completed as a visual artifact and returned to Britain with the primary function of a doll—a teaching tool, this time teaching about new members of Britain’s rapidly growing colonies. Because of the detail of the workmanship, it is evident that the dolls were dressed by indigenous Cree Indian women of the Hudson Bay region. Examination of the construction of

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Illus. 1, 2, 3 Two late eighteenth-century English-style dolls dressed to represent Canadian Cree Indians (male on facing page; female to right). Above Cree cradleboard and replacement doll. Maus-Greer Collection.

Illus. 4, 5 Closeup of facial features including inset glass eyes, inset wooden nose, and painted features. Closeup of Cree Indian interpretation of eighteenth century wooden doll hands with pigment coloring rather than painted wood and sharp, angled and pointed fingers.

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Illus. 6a, 6b This Cree male doll’s hood is made in a traditional manner representing an animalistic form with tasseled ears. It is constructed from stroud wool trade cloth and trimmed with imported silk ribbon or tape and glass beads which are worked in a traditional Cree motif.

the dolls reveals that the limbs were probably added2 on the Canadian side of the Atlantic, maybe by a combination of genders at work, men contributing unusual, for this type of doll, flat caped elbow length arms with hands featuring flat tine-like fingers and longer and thinner legs than expected.

The upper parts of their limbs seem to be rolls of fabric inside a tubing of cloth, red wool in his case, white cotton in hers.3 Indeed, the mixed cultures and genders contributing to the dolls’ construction would have been representative of many of the peoples sharing this part of the world. The European traders are known to have taken two or more Cree wives, creating a new population of mixed blood.

Their descendants today are known as Métis.

Their wigs are not constructed along European lines of the time, and the hair appears to be native American Indian.

The wefting appears to be an indigenous attempt and the completed wigs are firmly nailed to the heads. Both wigs feature hank4 ends wrapped with multiple rows of beads (fillets5) ending in a deep fringe of beads. Perhaps his wig was following the European male hair fashion of wigs with queues.6 The doll in the cradleboard has her own story to tell which will be revealed later.

Many decades ago, about the time the acclaimed and similarly constructed “Lord and Lady Clapham”

Illus. 7 Male doll’s human hair wefted wig with mid back length hank of hair caught in wound glass seed bead coil reaching to waistline. Red collar at neckline of hide coat.

dolls (both dressed before 1700) made their way into the collections of England’s premier design museum (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1974) its then Curator of Costumes, Madeleine Ginsburg, made a most obvious observation: dolls as originally dressed in contemporary apparel are the best source for the study of how humans actually clothed themselves. She went on to say: Even better are the dolls that have never been undressed. These two near pristine representations are superb three-dimensional examples of what constituted the apparel of Eastern7 or Swampy Cree8 Indians who lived over two centuries ago in the Hudson Bay region of what is now part of the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and even Manitoba. In some cases, early contact Cree articles of attire have few or no extant human scale survivors as ethnographers have discovered and they must turn to dolls, as is the case with these, and the other few surviving doll examples. The importance of these dolls is compounded because the Cree were quick to pick up on details of European garments—after all their business was trading with Europeans. Additionally, there was the extensive crossbreeding between Cree women and European men where the former would have ample opportunity to inspect garment construction. Compounding research issues, there are few visuals or descriptive sources

2. Wood analysis has not been taken on either the torsos or limb parts.

3. The tubing is best examined on the female doll’s arms where the tubing is left open and flat at the shoulder where it covers this area of the doll, including the added hide shoulder straps of her “dress”. All of which can be seen at her side neckline. Her upper arm parts, with their slight flexibility, seem to be constructed of two rolls of fabric.

4. These are so tightly compressed it is impossible to see how the lower portion of the hair is actually treated.

5. Fillet is a medieval word meaning thread which was still in use in the 18th century to denote either a plain or decorative long thin strand used either in sewing or other applications.

6. Or the reverse influence could have taken place going from Indigenous Americans to Europeans.

7. To denote their location and separate them from Plains Cree.

8. Depending on where they were based the Cree have local tribal names.

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Illus. 7a, 7b Two wintertime Cree hunters depicted about 1824 by Peter Rindisbacher wearing hoods, hide coats, belts, leggings, and moccasins along with a Cree family during warmer days, although she still is wrapped in a Hudson’s Bay Company blanket. Library and Archives Canada.

that survive thus making firm identifications of inspiration sources a challenge.

Perhaps this would be a good time for a very bare bones background. Since the late fifteenth century, French and British men had amicably practiced fur trading with indigenous peoples in lands that would gradually become recognized as a British colonial holding in 1763 as the Province of Quebec.9 This designation would last until 1791 when the land was divided, only to be reunited officially in 1841 as the Province of Canada. Finally in 1867 the Province of Canada was enlarged with other continental Colonial holdings to form the country of Canada. Centuries before what are known as Indigenous North Americans, crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to settle on the North American continent, moving east to the Atlantic. On the North American continent, over the centuries, the northern most peoples of the First Nations10 became skilled fur trappers.

The name “Cree” can be traced to a group of indigenous peoples near James Bay, of the larger Hudson Bay, identified

by Frenchmen as “Kiristinon,” later contracted to “Cri,” before being Anglicized to “Cree,” a name not presently used by indigenous peoples who in the James Bay area of Quebec prefer “Eeyou Istchee.” The peoples, now known as Eastern Cree, first encountered Europeans in 1610-1611 as the explorer Henry Hudson named the larger body of water after himself. The naming of the smaller bay at the south end of Hudson Bay recognizes another Englishman, Captain Thomas James who explored the area in 1630-1631.

The Bay’s location made it ideal for trading activity from both the east and west coasts although most foreign traders

of the period came across the Atlantic seeking fur pelts.

Now for a look at the attire of the two primary dolls.

Their unique apparel is their crowning glory. Indeed, the male appears to be singular in so many ways. Unlocking the learning curve on the items of his apparel is both fascinating and frustrating. Contemporary written and visual reference are next to non-existent with the added joy of dealing with terms translated among multiple languages and dialects and changes of meaning over time. Some items I never found a term for, in any form, like the man’s double peaked head wear, although for the woman’s variant there is a loose modern term which would seem applicable to the head wear of both genders: hood. In both cases the construction is basic: in his case one piece of cloth partially folded over laterally and stitched up the layered sides is then decorated with a woven band featuring triangles reminiscent of arrowhead points in the colors associated with the bands of Hudson’s Bay Company’s Point blankets.

The back neck extension was protection against the cold.

Her hood is again a single piece and folded again in half but seamed vertically in the wearing thus creating a peak at the top center. Most surviving examples are identified as woman’s wear, though contemporary illustrations depict usage by men too. The ground fabric of these two examples is imported red wool—called stroud11 —and the woman’s is decorated with narrow ribbons of the colors found in Hudson’s Bay Point Blankets: dark blue, green, red, yellow and white. The blankets themselves were bulky wool totally unsuitable for dressing dolls, so alternative materials were found to express the visual impression of the real artifact.

9. These lands included Rupert’s Land a massive territory in British North America, encompassing the Hudson Bay drainage basin and covering about a third of present-day Canada. Granted to the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670 and named for Prince Rupert, it was the site of the fur trade and Métis homeland until its sale to Canada in 1870.

10. Canadians prefer to identify their indigenous peoples as members of First Nations rather than the American term Native American.

11. Stroud was a commercially woven wool textile primarily made in Stroud, England and exported as trade goods by the Hudson’s Bay Company to their trading posts in North America.

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Illus. 9, 10 Front and back images of the male Cree hunter doll.

Illus. 8 European man’s suit, ca 1780 with “justacorp” coat.

Collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Illus. 11 Watercolor depiction of a British foot Army “red coat” featuring epaulettes and decorative braid.

Source Internet.

Founded in the late seventeenth century (1670) by British investors the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) was until this year when it ceased merchandising, the oldest commercial enterprise in Canada. Initially it was established to set up fur trading posts where traders, both French and British, might exchange goods with indigenous tribes. A number of elements of these dolls’ apparel are primary examples of European trade goods: fabrics, beads, buttons, for example. One of the Cree’s most desired imported products was a heavy, tightly woven wool blanket of distinctive colors and design with the addition of a measured black weft, known as a bar indicating the size of the blanket. Its association with trade goods was so strong that even to this day it retains the name of the trading posts it is most associated with, Hudson’s Bay Point Blanket.

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Illus. 12a, 12b Barely visible at the center front inner most neckline is found a previously unrecorded beaded and fringed yoke-like neck piece.

The single piece hide overcoat is decorated with pigmented quills used in embroidery and wrapping raveled threads to form tassels of Cree Hunter’s coat epaulets and wrappings of hemline fringes. The epaulettes are placed on the shoulder away from the red stroud wool attached high-standing fold-over collar. Both are elements adapted from European men’s body coats of the period, ca. 1790. See Illus. 10 for coat back.

Illus. 13 Stamped and pigmented decoration at coat hemline.

in this region were expected to tan hides12, as well as apply colored pigment motifs, attach thongs13, and trade beads, generally of glass14, do finger or loom weaving and embroider with porcupine or bird quills often using imported metal as well as local bone needles.15 They likely traded at the posts either with goods or coinage, acquiring items like metal needles and scissors as well as imported fabrics. The largest piece of hide appears to be caribou, and it is found in the man’s pigment decorated outerwear coat closed by three pair of looped knotted leather thongs.

His attire indicates he represents a Cree hunter from a subarctic region. The Indigenous peoples of the Hudson Bay region had already for centuries been recognized for their hunting skills and their willingness to conduct trade with Europeans. Along with goods, ideas were also traded as the Crees frequently adapted ideas from western attire. And that is just what they did with the man’s attire.

At the same time trappers from abroad, not used to the

extreme cold of Canadian winters, liberally adopted ideas from indigenous attire.16 The male doll’s below knee length outer garment is based on a late seventeenth century man’s three-piece French suit coat, known as a “justacorps,” translating to “body fitting.”17 Coats of this length and skirt fullness remained in European fashion for over one hundred years before being standardized with an increasingly slimmer skirt, as featured on this doll. Readers may notice that even the applications of trim are parallel—shoulders, upper arm, center front opening, and cuffs—but not of the same scale or materials. Some of these details can also be associated with both French and English military attire.18 One outstanding feature of the male doll’s coat is the eye-catching quill work expended on his shoulders and upper arms which was probably inspired by the newly19 popular attire of an upper ranking British officer whose coat boasted eye catching metallic embellished epaulettes.

12. Tanned deer, elk and caribou skins were all dressed for human apparel items.

13. Thongs are very thin slivers of long pieces of hide used for tying two or more pieces together.

14. The bulk of the glass trade beads came from either Italy or Bohemia, with other glass making centers in Europe contributing too. Because of their small size they are known as seed beads and earlier ones generally are smaller than later examples.

15. Any metal needles were imported trade items from Britain.

16. Hudson’s Bay Point blankets once on the Cree side of the northern Atlantic were turned into distinctive winter coats for trappers known as capotes, a still uniquely Canadian garment.

17. In this case the body fitting is not achieved through complex cut but rather a belt drawing in the hide at the waistline.

18. In the period of these dolls neither French nor English military attire for the lower ranks was uniform, an inductee was expected to supply their own garb. For those in higher ranks uniforms were supplied and often included details which were copied.

19. Epaulettes were introduced to European military attire about 1700.

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Illus. 14 Details of male doll’s attire including waist line thong tie of leather coat.

ll 15 Blue wool under coat with applied red and white cotton bands of tape which can also be seen as button loops in the previous illustration.

Of special note are the decorative coat motifs that repeat extant human scale indigenous coats. The pigment colors are red, and two shades of green employed in recreating a favored impressed Cree design featuring circle-dot and triangle motifs. Under the hide coat is found a decorated and warmth giving, navy blue wool garment20 with applied cotton fold-over high stand collar again based on European examples. Under the blue coat neckline opening is to be found an Indigenous all bead neckband with a shallow bead fringe. The undercoat features two decorative domed clear glass and metal, shank buttons holding the coat closed with two decorative red and white cotton tape loops. Five vertical strips of the tape decorate the body of the coat. Because of the tightness of fit of the arms it is impossible to see if there are any arms to this garment. Finally, as main garments are the barely visible frontal bead decorated breechclout panel backed with red

stroud cloth which currently lays over a single piece of undecorated red wool cloth breechclout.21 Hanging over one shoulder of the male is an element perhaps lifted from European military dressing: a bandolier. These open top bag-like accessories were designed to be easy to use as they were designed to carry in the in-one pocket a supply of bullets. This example’s decoration and shape relates to human scale versions associated with the York Fort22 area of Hudson Bay. The last exterior items of apparel we have are a pair of red trade wool leggings decorated below the knee with yellow silk ribbon acting as garters as if they were European military gaiters23 followed by the expected beaded high top, hide moccasins with bead work uppers and an extension of red trade cloth tied around the ankle.

This exploration was as far as I dared delve on this very tightly dressed doll.

20. The blue wool garment, in terms of European garments of the day, could be considered a coat if it has sleeves. Because the garments are so tightly fitted it is impossible to tell if sleeves are present or not. Waist coats of the day would have been both sleeved and sleeveless, but their skirt length would have been shorter. Perhaps this is an adaptation for the Canadian weather.

21. The inner “breechcloth” appears to have been an addition during the doll’s tenure at the Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art as it does not appear in Oberholtzer, Cree Dolls: Miniature Ambassadors of the North, p.43 The wool backing on the Whyel cradleboard is now missing and may have been used to create this garment.

22. Forts were often known as factories because they served a dual purpose being constructed both for protection and as trading post for the Hudson’s Bay Company.

23. See Illus. 11

Part 2 of this article will appear in the December 2025 issue of Antique DOLL Collector.

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FROM PRINT TO BOUTIQUE French Fashion Accessories Inspired by Nineteenth Century Fashion Plates

By Melanie Luther

From Journal des Demoiselles comes a charming example of a hand tinted plate featuring two women, accompanied by a child who is holding her poupée. All are dressed in late nineteenth century fashions.

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Right: Original editions of Godey’s 1863 and Peterson’s Magazine 1872 are shown. Annually, volumes of twelve magazine issues were bound in leather.

Far right: An open page of a bound volume of Godey’s 1863 shows the name of the editor Sarah Joseph Hale and publisher Louis Godey. This magazine was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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he history of dolls can be told through many different lenses. One lens in particular—that of miniature fashion accessories, such as a pair of leather gloves or a silk parasol—can tell a story and reveal a snippet of doll history.

It is the hope of this writer to open the door for collectors to explore the detailed resemblance of antique French fashion miniatures to adult-sized accessories.

The study of nineteenth century fashion miniatures is also a study of the mores of the period and of the women who sought adultsized accessories for themselves. Numerous pages of posh finery were published in the popular fashion magazines of the day. From the mid-1860s to the late 1880s, both Godey’s Ladies Book and Peterson’s Magazine published beautiful hand tinted fashion plates. Many of these plates displayed excellent examples of chic accessories that collectors today strive to own as miniatures for their fashion dolls.

Godey’s Lady’s Book also known as Godey’s Magazine was a monthly American woman’s magazine that was published by Louis Godey from 1830-1896. It included engravings, fashions, poetry, fiction, serial novels, etiquette, patterns, needlework, musical scores and more. In 1861, subscription circulation reached 150,000 with an estimated readership of one million. The magazine was considered expensive for the time at a subscription cost of $3 per year.

The tiny cream-colored leather gloves accented with top stitching mirror the gloves that the fashionable woman is wearing in this fashion plate from Peterson’s 1872.

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A doll-sized silk parasol resembles the human-sized one depicted in this tinted plate from Peterson’s 1872. It is six inches long, with a turned handle and a belt chain.

Similar, but not identical, to this leather purse with metal studs and a chain is a miniature example of the bag pictured in an issue of Peterson’s 1872.

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Notably, the literary editor, from 1837 to 1877 was Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Mrs. Hale significantly influenced American life by documenting the evolution of women’s clothing and accessories in this publication. She was also known as an avid supporter of advanced education for women.

Ladies National Magazine was a monthly women’s publication which began in 1842. By 1848 it was called Peterson’s Ladies’ National Magazine, and beginning in 1855 to 1892, it was known as Peterson’s Magazine. Charles Jacobs Peterson and George Rex Graham who were partners in the Saturday Evening Post launched the magazine as a cheaper alternative to Godey’s. The cost was $2 per annual subscription versus $3 per year for Godey’s. The magazine content was similar to that of Godey’s and also

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included tinted fashion plates. Ann S. Stephens was named editor and was also an early contributor as was Emily H May. The high standards and workmanship of the nineteenth century couturiers are easily seen in the fashion plates of both periodicals. Fashion dolls’ attire which included a generous cache of accessories mirrored ladies’ wardrobes, but in doll scale. From gloves to purses, stockings and furs, prayer books, watches, and fans—these were patterned after their human-sized models and sold in boutiques and doll shops. Functional items such as tiny parasols as well as “frou frou” miniatures were created for purchase in these upscale boutiques.

In addition, according to doll expert Florence Theriault, the dramatic increase in the creation of fashion accessories was precipitated by significant changes in the development of doll bodies and costumes. She explained that “although certain luxury miniature accessories were made prior to the mid-1800s, the niche industry did not blossom until an important change occurred in doll design. That was the idea of changeable costumes. By mid-1850s, dolls were being designed with changeable costumes that could be removed, replaced, or interchanged— that change was made possible by new articulated Right: This petite mauve miser purse is an amazing replica of one fabricated for an adult. Pictured in Godey’s 1863 publication, the tiny woven purse is a perfect accessory for a poupée.

Below: The example on the left shows a miniature pair of embroidered stockings that are just as fancy as the designs of a lady’s pair, as pictured on the right. Courtesy of Stella Blum, Editor, Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper’s Bazar 1867-1898, Dover Publications. New York 1974.

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Above: Women of the 1860s-1870s were often depicted in these publications holding a book, missal, or prayer book. The oneinch faux ivory book shown here is a perfect example of a miniature for a doll. Peterson’s 1872.

Left: This petite two-inch fan is a stunning example of a doll-scaled accessory, designed to mirror that of the fashionable lady in Peterson’s 1872. Beautifully hand painted, the faux ivory eventail opens and closes with ease.

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bodies, suggesting that not only could dolls have a change of costume, but that they would be posed, placed in vignette settings, and adorned with accessories and ephemera. Voila!

Demand for accessories began.”

The fashion plates from Godey’s and Peterson’s provide an excellent resource for those collectors who strive to obtain or recreate authentic accessories for their French fashion poupées. These magazine plates promoted fashion within the daily activities of walking, having afternoon tea, riding, and visiting friends, etc. Just as this connection created numerous opportunities for women to be fashionable in daily life, the ability to remove and change doll clothing with an articulating doll body spawned a growing industry that allowed dolls to Right: This plate from Harper’s Bazar, late 1800s, features a woman holding an open watch. Victorian women wore pins with watches attached and this miniature open face watch dangled from an enameled bluebird pin matches that description in doll scale. Turquoise was a very popular color for Victorian enameled jewelry. Courtesy of Stella Blum, Editor, Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper’s Bazar 1867-1898, Dover Publications. New York 1974.

Below: No cache of accessories for a doll would be complete without a pet.

This fashion plate from The Young Ladies Journal Monthly Panorama of Fashion 1873 shows a small pet dog at the feet of beautifully costumed women. The doll sized example that sports a similar posture is a mere 3 inches x 3 inches and was made in Germany.

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Top: Mademoiselle Esme, a wood bodied Jumeau poupée dons a fur hat and tippet, also resembling those made for women and depicted in nineteenth century publications.

She is holding two different purses and is having difficulty choosing between them.

The advancement of articulating doll bodies allowed for greater posing of dolls and for wardrobe changes, which was a boon to the French doll industry in the midlate 1800s.

Bottom: Silk ribbons and elaborate bows were part of women’s fashion in the mid 1860s. This hand tinted plate from Godey’s 1863 shows multiple large, fancy colored sashes. The royal purple and grey silk sash is designed to accent the back of a fashion doll’s light colored fancy gown.

be just as fashionable as their adult counterparts. Even the color choices of textiles, leathers, and stones for jewelry as well as the minute construction of these accessories were duplicated in doll size by copying the designs of adult haute couture.

Further research into publications such as Harper’s Bazar, La Mode Illustrée, Journal des Demoiselles, Mme. Demorest’s Mirror of Fashions, Le Follet, and The Delineator to name but a few, should yield additional examples of potential miniatures for a poupée’s trousseau. The lovely fashion plates published in these periodicals are a treasure trove for study and admiration for antique fashion doll collectors, costumers, and fashion historians.

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Visiting friends and relatives was a usual and necessary activity for Victorian women in the 1800s.

The practice was to leave a fancy, embossed card identifying the name of the visitor. Not to be outdone, fashion dolls also had calling cards, as one is pictured in this fashion plate. Courtesy of Stella Blum, Editor, Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper’s Bazar 1867-1898, Dover Publications. New York 1974.

Top right: The young women shown in this fashion plate from Godey’s 1863 are each holding a delicate handkerchief. The doll-sized handkerchiefs pictured are miniature examples of the same.

Above: Gilded and painted hair combs were a necessary accessory for the hairstyles of the day in the late 1800s. These tiny decorative combs are barely one-half inch and are petite doll- sized examples similar to those in this fashion plate from Peterson’s 1872.

Right: The demand for jewelry created a separate industry for this accessory.

Companies such as Besnard and Capra sprung up to meet this demand. Pictured is a young woman wearing earrings and beads in this Godey’s 1863 plate. The doll-sized necklace is composed of three rows of beads that are rose colored, another popular color choice of the time.

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Barbie®: A Cultural Icon Exhibition Sixty-Five Years of Fashion and Inspiration

Barbie® is on the move, traveling across the United States and the World in a Special Retrospective.

By Eliza de Sola Mendes arbie’s 65th Anniversary Party continues with great fanfare into 2025, celebrating the most important fashion icon doll of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To commemorate this milestone, an important exhibition is currently traveling around the United States covering Barbie® fashions from 1959–2025. The show was in New York City at The Museum of Art and Design and then opened at the Cincinnati Museum Center where it was on view through September 1, 2025.

Barbie® and Ken™ fashion icons from the start: Ponytail Barbie® in #983 “Enchanted Evening” 1960–1963. Tuxedo #787 1961–1965 Flocked Hair Ken™ Doll Collection David Porcello. Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

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Barbie®: A Cultural Icon was developed in 2021 and first shown in Las Vegas, Calgary and Phoenix. The show’s curator is costume historian, Karan Feder, in partnership with Tim Clothier of Illusion Projects, Inc. and Mattel. The exhibition contents are drawn from the private collection of David Porcello and Mattel. The show is inspired by Barbie’s sixty-six-year influence on popular culture and includes over 300 artifacts, with more than 260 vintage dolls, life-size period fashion designs, advertisements, and other ephemera. There are fascinating video interviews with the doll’s designers, and original television commercials. The exhibition is divided into six sections. The opening portion provides the early history of Barbie® and presents all twenty-two of the original ensemble outfits. Sections include the influence of the Space Age, the creation of Christie™, the first Black doll in Barbie® world, the arrival of Ken™, and the creation of the Barbie Dreamhouse™.

We were fortunate to have a private tour at the New York venue and to interview the receiving curator, Barbara Paris Gifford of MAD—The Museum of Arts and Design. When asked: How do you see Barbie® (who was “born” in California) as a cultural icon in the context of New York City—the “City of Fashion,” Gifford replied: “It is my understanding that Barbie®, the doll, was born in Willows, Wisconsin, and then moved to California—but—yes, Mattel is a California-based company. The designers of Barbie® through the years looked to all kinds of sources to inspire Barbie’s clothes – Balenciaga, Jackie Kennedy (Oleg Cassini), Biba, Halston, Yves St. Laurent, Bob Mackie, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, Nolan Miller, the Spice Girls, etc. So, like many designers, ANYTHING could inspire—not tied to a certain place. She is truly a cultural icon, inspired by what is happening in the Western World. This is true of NYC, too.”

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“IN THE BOX”: WHO IS BARBIE®?

Barbie® was the creation of Mattel in 1959.

The fashion doll was the brainchild of Ruth Handler (1916–2002), the co-founder of Mattel with her husband, Elliot (1916–2011). They founded the toy company in 1945 and already were known for toy guns, music boxes and other toys. Ruth wrote about the Barbie® doll’s creation in her 1994 landmark book, Dream Doll: The Ruth Handler Story (Longmeadow Press). The idea for Barbie® came from observing her daughter Barbara, who she sometimes called Barbie “playing with paper dolls with her friends.” She observed that Barbara and her friends always insisted on buying only adult female paper dolls. They simply were not interested in baby paper dolls or even those representing ten-year-olds, their own age.” Mattel was also looking for a way to get into the doll market. By chance on a trip to Lucerne, Switzerland with her family for her husband’s fortieth birthday, Ruth saw a doll in a store window. The German newspaper, Bild had a cartoon character named “Lilli” and the doll figure she saw was a gag toy geared toward men inspired by the cartoon. Ruth was most interested in the adult female figure of the doll, not the face. She remarked that someone had said to her that the face “bore a striking resemblance to Natasha of ‘Boris and Natasha’ fame on the old ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle’ show.”

When Ruth went to purchase the doll in the shop with her daughter Barbara (and her son Ken 1944–1994) she noted that the dolls were in different outfits, and her daughter could not decide. When Ruth inquired of the salesperson, “Could we buy this doll in this costume and also just the costume this other doll is wearing?,” she was told no, and “if you want to buy that outfit, you have to buy the doll with it. The doll and the outfit come together. If you want both outfits, you buy both dolls.” Intriguingly, on the same trip they “#1 Barbie®” Barbie® Teenage Fashion went to Vienna and saw a Lilli doll, and this time the doll was wearing Model doll wearing original outfit #850. a ski outfit. Ruth’s daughter said, “Oh, that is the prettiest…I wish I’d 1959–1961. Mattel Corporate Archives. gotten this one.” Ruth realized they could create a small 11-½-inch doll Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes. for Mattel that would have multiple couture outfits. A true “fashionista” doll, one that would remain an icon into the twenty-first century, was born.

Interestingly, Barbie®, the character, showed an interest in being part of the fashion world not long after she was introduced. Two books in a series of twelve Barbie® books from Random House Publishers, written by Betty Lou Maybee (1925–1999) and Cynthia Lawrence (dates unknown) in 1962 show that Barbie “Roberts” (the last name we never knew) longs to go to New York to be part of the fashion scene in New York City as Random House Publishers Barbie® Book Series: “Barbie’s Fashion Success” and well as in San Francisco.

Barbie’s New York Summer” 1962. Collection and photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

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The First Lady of Fashion: Jackie Kennedy and her influence on Barbie’s early style. From exhibition installation.

Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

Installation view of fashion designer Bob Mackie’s “International Beauty” Barbie® Creations. Mattel Corporate Archives.

Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

RIGHT: Designed by Oleg Cassini the “Bell Dress helped Mrs. Kennedy define her public image and secure her fashion legacy” an example of a period bell dress by the House of Bianchi, Boston, New York, 1960 and a Barbie® Bell Dress, 1962 worn by Ponytail Barbie®. Collection David Porcello. Quote: Karan Feder from the exhibition catalog. Mrs. Kennedy wore an Oleg Cassini bell dress during an official visit to India. Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

Walking through the exhibition with Gifford, we discussed Barbie’s beginnings and the feminist movement and one of the most fascinating early outfits created for Barbie®. She remarked that “Busy Gal,” one of the first 1960’s outfits for Barbie®, was not for a working “girl.” She explained, “‘Busy Gal’ is from the 1960s so she would have been a working ‘woman,’ but they avoided calling her that, I am guessing so they would not outwardly rattle cultural expectations for women at the time. Nonetheless, with Ruth at the helm, they wanted to show a variety of things that women could do. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed benefitting women in the workplace.”

Ponytail Barbie® in #981 “Busy Gal” 1960. Collection David Porcello.

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Gifford elaborates: “’Busy Gal’ is in a suit with a portfolio under her arm. She is wearing glasses, indicating she is a reader, and she has on a hat, which means she is out and about often. The portfolio was an interesting addition and message—it might have prompted inquiries from girls about what that was and why ‘Busy Gal’ needed it. They then would have become aware of her having a creative profession, and maybe filed that in their minds as a possibility for themselves one day. Later, I believe in the 1990s, ‘Busy Gal’ is now ‘Working Woman.’ There is a doll like her in the 1990s Career Section, but times have changed, and it is no longer suggestive to call a woman with a career a ‘working’ woman.”

In speaking also with Feder about the outfit which inspired her most in the exhibit, one that had the greatest meaning to her personally, she said, “The first twentytwo outfits for the Barbie® doll designed by Charlotte Johnson (1917–1997) are exceptionally wonderful. The collection was released for sale in 1959 and featured authentic miniature zippers and closures, hand-beaded jewelry, and interior garment linings. The attention to detail at this miniature scale was magical. One of the most fascinating discoveries concerning the influence of popular culture on Barbie’s fashion designers is realized

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“Evening Splendor” #961 1959– 1964. Designed by Charlotte Johnson. Collection David Porcello. Photo: Jeff Scheid.

“Winter Holiday #975 1959–1963.

Designed by Charlotte Johnson.

Collection David Porcello. Photo: Jeff Scheid.

Barbie’s First Clothing Designer, Charlotte Johnson with Barbie® Model. Charlotte came to Mattel in 1958 before Barbie® was conceived. In 1974 Charlotte Johnson would explain to reporters “I design fashion clothing in miniature not doll clothes.” Photo: Tiffany Nelson, 1964. Los Angeles Times. UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

in style #2688 from the Barbie® and the Rockers Fashions collection (see page 158, Barbie Takes the Catwalk, A Style Icon’s History in Fashion, Weldon Owen, publisher, 2023). The outfit, released in 1986, is influenced by the stage wardrobe worn by pop star Madonna during the televised inaugural edition of MTV’s Video Music Awards show. As a featured artist on the awards show, American singer and songwriter Madonna performed her new album’s title song, ‘Like a Virgin,’ dressed in a rebellious and revealing interpretation of a wedding gown. Madonna’s underwear-as-outerwear wedding costume served as inspiration for Barbie’s fashion #2688. Although Madonna’s commercial success afforded her a platform from which she was able to influence mainstream popular consciousness, the flirtatious and risqué nature of her stage persona would suggest that her fame was out of step with the ‘well-mannered’ Barbie® identity of the mid-1980s.”

What does Feder think about the couture style of Barbie® and the incredible fit on the doll? She says, “Any criticism of the original Barbie® doll figure ignores a crucial technical sartorial truism. The mechanics of clothing construction are a significant consideration for Barbie® fashion designers. The original Barbie® doll is roughly one-sixth human scale, but the textiles used to make her clothing are manufactured in life-size scale. This insight offers an explanation concerning the Barbie® doll’s disproportionately diminutive waistline. Typical clothing construction techniques such as darting, pleating, and gathering result in a finished garment that includes multiple layers of material. In order to represent a proportionately-looking figure once fully clothed, the doll required a waist measurement smaller than that calculated using a one-sixth ratio. Thus, the original Barbie® doll silhouette was designed with her wardrobe top of mind.”

Dream Glow Barbie® in Barbie® Fashion #2688 From “Barbie® and the Rockers” 1986 from exhibition catalog. Collection David Porcello. Photo: Jeff Scheid.

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THE DAVID PORCELLO COLLECTION Tim Clothier, the exhibition producer, explained the background of the exhibition collection: “When we set out working on the narrative for the exhibition it became apparent that there was a real link from fashion movements through time, and Barbie’s reflection of that fashion and culture. David’s focus on collecting was the doll fashions, which really fitted with this concept.

Karan’s expertise in fashion history meant she could take David’s collection and weave a narrative to track Barbie’s progression and see how this mirrors real life

fashion movements. David helped us with details, information, and sourcing particular pieces from his collection. We worked in collaboration with Barbie® designer and historian Bill Greening and the team at Mattel who assisted with filling in the Mattel side of the history elements. The dolls were all transported from David’s home in Las Vegas to California where they stayed at the Mattel design center for a few weeks, getting fully styled by the Mattel styling team. Mattel’s team gives the dolls a styling ‘refresh’ at each exhibition location.”

1960’s-1970’s Barbie® and Julia™ Fashion including Talking, Twist n’ Turn and Swirl Ponytail. Collection David Porcello. Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

1960’s-1970’s evolving style. Barbie® and Julia™ Fashion. Collection David Porcello. Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

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“Swirly Cue” 1968. Worn by Twist’n Turn Barbie® next to Life-size dress (period).

Collection: David Porcello. Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

The Met Moschino (doll and front of box) “The most Moschino Barbie® doll ever!” 2019. Collection: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

Clothier also explained further about Mattel’s involvement with the exhibition: “As the producer, I made a deal with Mattel to produce the exhibition in collaboration with them. Mattel’s brand and events teams all played a part in design, layout, and the exhibition flow. We were able to film some wonderful interviews with Mattel designers past and present, who are featured in the exhibition. A particular thrill was sitting down with Kitty Black Perkins who worked as a designer for Mattel in the 1970s and 1980s, and designed the first Black Barbie® doll.”

The exhibition has been a huge success on tour. It is amazing to believe that sixty-five years ago on March 9, 1959 the first Barbie® doll was introduced at New York’s Toy Fair and sold for $3.00 and clothes from $1.00-to$5.00 with no inkling that she would remain today a superstar of the fashion world. Barbie’s style first copied twentieth century fashion and in the twenty-first century, she is a fashion icon and major world fashion designers now create couture for her including the 2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala Barbie® designed by

The Met Moschino (back of box).

Jeremy Scott for Moschino, in the actual design worn

by Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, and musician, Kacey Musgraves which he had created for the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” collection, available in a limited edition, at the museum for the show. It seems as if this is the crowning success of Barbie’s fashion ambitions to make it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What will Barbie’s fashion ambitions be like in the future? How will she influence the runway in the coming decades? We can be sure there will be many style surprises, and it is clear she will be a favorite fashion icon for years to come.

THE CATALOG The accompanying catalog reinforces the theme of the runway. “Barbie Takes the Catwalk: A Style Icon’s History of Fashion” by curator Karan Feder is large fullcolor coffee table-size book which walks the reader through forty years of her fashion changes by the decades. We see Barbie® defined in the early 1960s by ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Jacqueline Kennedy’s First Lady image, the Space Age, the emergence of a new Youth Culture with “Flower Power” and “Psychedelic Mood.” As the years went on, the issue of hemlines for women with “Midi” and “Maxi” were also confronted in Barbie® fashion in a marvelous “line up” of dolls. Barbie® as a “Disco Queen” is also explored. Karan has carefully presented the Barbie® fashions with images of similar couture clothing of each era. Mattel’s clothing for Barbie® was expertly factory sewn in Japan with European and American couturiers in mind. Many very rare individual outfits are shown within the historical context of Barbie’s allure as a fashion

superstar. Available through the bookstore on your visit to the exhibit or from the Amazon link for Barbie Takes the Catwalk, A Style Icon’s History in Fashion: https://tinyurl. com/cjk2xdft VISIT THE EXHIBITION: Barbie®: A Cultural Icon will continue to travel to several additional locations in the United States and around the world including The Virginia Museum of Art and Culture in 2026. Illusion Projects, Inc., a creative design and production company developed the show and is responsible for the tour around the world.

BELOW: Cover of Catalog Barbie® Takes the Catwalk: A style Icon’s History of Fashion by Karan Feder.

Weldonowen, 2023 Collector’s Edition ISBN 978–8—88674–105–6.

Hardcopy, 223 pages.

Photo: Karan Feder.

ABOVE: “Concert Tour” with “Rockers Fashion,” 1980’s Barbie® and Ken™. “Sunset Gold Malibu Barbie® 2294 and car. Collection: David Porcello.

Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

LEFT: Malibu Barbie® Car-Pink Corvette Life Size, which visitors to the exhibition can sit in for a photo op.

Exhibition prop. Photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes.

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he United Federation of Doll Clubs, Inc offered convention attendees an outstanding educational opportunity to view “the best of the best” in their convention Competitive Exhibit. Exhibit Chairs Susan Popp and Diane Vourderis are to be congratulated on bringing together a diverse and interesting array of dolls spanning the past three centuries.

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President’s Choice Doll Gerling Toy Co. papier-mâché smoking Boudoir doll. Sheaelle Brown Collection, Dolls Online Club.

5 ¼-inch All bisque “Mimi” designed by Jeanne Orsini. Laura Noon Collection, Birmingham Doll Club of Alabama.

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President’s Choice Doll 23-inch Kammer & Reinhardt Mold 103 character boy. Julie Blewis Collection, South West Florida Antique Doll Study Club.

16-inch, Composition Ideal “Farmer Boy,” ca. 1914. Suzanne Swanton Collection, Timbertown Dollology.

17-inch Schmitt et Fils, First Period Round face Bébé on composition and wood 8-ball body. Robyn Hochteil Collection, Best Little Doll Club of Orange County.

10 ½-inch Parian by Alt, Beck & Gottschalk with café-au-lait hair color. Delores Vitello Collection, Western New York Doll Club.

16-inch Madame Hendron “Happy Cry” two-faced cloth doll designed by Grace Drayton.

Judy Heckert Collection, John Harris Doll Club.

14 ½-inch early Continental Wooden lady. Robyn Katz Collection, Shaker Doll Club.

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18-inch Cloth Kamkins doll with disc jointed shoulders and hips.

Bernice Millman Collection, Lady Baltimore Doll Club.

25-inch Parian by Alt, Beck & Gottschalk with squeaker body.

Kathy Turner Collection, Dollology Club of Washington DC.

1-inch China Frozen Charlotte, pink tint with molded bonnet.

Diana Crosby Collection, Atlanta Doll Club.

15-inch Composition Sabu from film The Thief of Bagdad. Lou Gravely Collection, Land O’Sky Doll Club.

18-inch Vinyl Ideal Miss Revlon bride, MIB. Linda Vilsack Collection, Western New York Doll Club.

17-inch French Celluloid, Marie France by Petitcolin. Mary Ellen Mohn Collection, Ann Arbor Doll Collectors.

15-inch Poured wax, depicting a lady of Kashmir, India. Annette Phillips Collection, Heritage Doll Club of Central New York.

16-inch Wooden Schoenhut Graziano model 102. Michelle Brown Collection, Northern Ohio Doll Club.

12 ½- inch Jumeau Premiere Bébé.

Carol Cameron Collection, Doll Study Club of Boston.

11 ½-inch Papier-mâché Taufling.

David Groupe Collection, Shaker Doll Club.

8-inch All Bisque Googly marked 109221, maker unknown. Helen Marlowe Collection, Margaret Woodbury Strong Doll Club.

26-inch Cloth Madame Alexander ca.1930s toddler. Ellen Kelsh Collection, Member-at-Large.

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NOVEMBER 2025 1 ~ Smyrna, GA. Peachtree Doll Collectors Annual Doll Show & Sale. 10 AM-4 PM. Smyrna Community Center, 1250 Powder Springs St. Adults $5; Under 12 FREE. Chairperson Marsha Hunter, 678-873-1029. Deborah Hazen, debhz@me.com.

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2 ~ Santa Rosa, CA. Santa Rosa Holiday Doll Show. Redwood Empire Doll & Study Club.

Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Bldg., 1351 Maple Ave. Admission/Door (Cash/Check): Adults: $6; Under 12 FREE. Parking: FREE. Nina Lowrey, c/t 707-687-6321, santarosadollshow@gmail.com. santarosadollshow.blogspot.com/.

7-10 ~ Online. Holiday Stars + Santa’s Bear Land Teddy Bear Online Show. Valerie Rogers, 502-423-7827, brtstar1@aol.com. bright-star-promotions.com.

7-9 ~ Rock Island, IL. Antique Spectacular Vintage Market. Fri. 4 PM-8 PM; Sat. 10 AM-6 PM; Sun. 10 AM-4 PM. QCCA EXPO CENTER, 2621 4TH Ave. Admission $10, Parking FREE. Kimberly Schilling. Melting Pot Productions, Inc. 712-326-9964. Kim.aspectacular@gmail.com. www.AntiqueSpectacular.com.

7-8 ~ Schaumburg, IL. Chicago Autumn Showcase of Miniatures. Fri 4-8 PM, Sat 9 AM-3 PM. Wyndham Garden Hotel, 1725 E. Algonquin.

Info or register for classes: 314-277-2601 or tdminiatures@gmail.com. MiniatureShows.com.

8 ~ Salisbury, NC. Salisbury Doll, Toy & Miniature Show. 9:30 AM-3 PM (ET). Southeastern Doll Shows. Salisbury Civic Ctr, 315 Martin Luther King Jr Ave S. Jackie Stone. 828-505-2287. jackiestone@charter.net. SoutheasternDollShows.com 8 ~ Spencer, NC. Super Saturdays Monthly Sales. Every second Saturday. 10 AM-2 PM. The First Community Center of Spencer, 215 5th St. Free parking, free admission! Beth Nance, info@ncmdtm.org, 704-762-9359 (call only), ncmdtm.org/events/.

8 ~ Largo, FL. St Petersburg Doll Club Show and Sale. 9:30 AM-3 PM. Morgan Fitzgerald Middle School. 6410 118th Ave N. Admission $5. Jo Valente, aldopip@tampabay.rr.com, 727-480-2868.

9 ~ Anaheim, CA. California Doll Collectors Doll Club Annual Doll Show And Sale. Sun., 10 AM-3 PM. Brookhurst Community Center, 2271 W. Crescent Ave. Free parking. Admission $5.

Details: Ms Janice Young. 714-345-5797. cashmeredreamer@gmail.com.

15 ~ Arcadia (Pasadena), CA. Arcadia World Doll Day Show And Sale. Sat., 10 AM-3 PM. Arcadia Masonic Lodge, 50 W. Duarte Rd. Admission: $10, under 12 free. Mary Senko. 425-330-1770.

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15 ~ Detroit, MI. Doll Show & Sale. Ford Wellness Center. 313-492-6953.

15 ~ Sarasota, FL. Doll & Toy Show & Sale.

Venice Doll Club. 9 AM-2 PM. VFW Sunshine Post 3233, 124 S. Tuttle Ave. Admission/door: Early Bird: 8-9 AM $10; After 9 AM: FREE; Parking: FREE. Bruce Zalkin, 941-302-0572, fxtoyshows@gmail.com. fxtoyshows.com.

16 ~ Lynnwood, WA. Doll Show & Sale. Antique Doll & Toy Market. Embassy Suites Hotel, 20610 44th Ave. Lisa Pepin. C/t 206-669-7818. pepins4@msn.com.

19 ~ Garden Grove, CA. Tri-County Doll Council Meeting Wed., 10 AM-2 PM. First Presbyterian Church 11832 Euclid St. Info: Michele Wise-Simpson. 949-351-0512. email: edstvimi@hotmail.com.

21-23 ~ Online. Online Charity Sales Event.

Good Bears of the World. Fri. 10 AM-Sun. 5 PM Daily. Terrie Stong. goodbears1@sbcglobal.net. goodbearsoftheworld.org.

28-30 ~ Online. Online Sales Event.

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31 ~ Glendale, CA. Verdugo Hills Doll Club Doll Show. Sat., 10 AM-3 PM. Glendale Civic Auditorium, 1401 N. Verdugo Rd. Admission $10 (cash only); Under 12 free. Info: Janie Olds.

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31 ~ Naples, FL. Naples Doll Club Annual Doll Show & Sale. 9 AM - 3 PM. Moorings Presbyterian Church, 791 Harbour Dr. Admission/Door: Adults: $10; Under 10: FREE; Parking: FREE. Karen McLean, c/t 239-571-5082, kmclean@comcast.net.

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5-8 ~ Online. Bear Blitz + Santa’s Surprise Teddy Bear Online Show. Valerie Rogers, 502-423-7827, brtstar1@aol.com.bright-star-promotions.com.

6 ~ Brandon, FL. Land O’ Lakes Doll Club Doll Show and Sale. PreSale 9 AM $5; 10 AM Admission Free. Central Baptist Christian School and Church. 402 E. Windhorst Rd. Glen Freeman. glentampa09@aol.com. 813-727-3733.

6-7 ~ Gaithersburg, MD. The 183nd Eastern National Doll, Toy & Bear Show & Sale.

Fairgrounds - 16 Chestnut St. Stephanie Bellman. sbellman714@gmail.com. 234-440-3184.

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Good Bears of the World. Fri. 10 AM-Sun. 5 PM Daily. Terrie Stong. goodbears1@sbcglobal.net. goodbearsoftheworld.org.

13 ~ Spencer, NC. Super Saturdays Monthly Sales. Every second Saturday. 10 AM-2 PM. The First Community Center of Spencer, 215 5th St. Free parking, free admission! Beth Nance, info@ ncmdtm.org, 704-762-9359 (call only), https:// ncmdtm.org/events/.

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17 ~ Sarasota, FL. Venice Doll Club - FX Doll & Toy Show & Sale. 9 AM-2 PM. VFW Sunshine Post 3233, 124 South Tuttle Ave. Admission at the door: Early Bird: 8 AM: $10; After 9 AM: FREE; Parking: FREE. Bruce Zalkin, call/text 941-3020572, fxtoyshows@gmail.com. fxtoyshows.com.

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FEBRUARY 2026 CONT’D FROM PAGE47 7 ~ Leesburg, FL. Orange Blossom & Hills and Lakes Doll Club Annual Doll Show & Sale. 9 AM -3 PM. Morrison United Methodist Church, 1005 W Main St. Admission/Door (Cash Only): $5;

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Theriault’s Sat., Nov. 15, 2025, Preview 10 AM, Auction 11 AM ET Marquis: “Nonesuch” Cataloged Antique Doll Auction Sun., Nov. 16, 2025, Preview 10 AM, Auction 11 AM ET Marquis: “The Legend Continues” Madame Alexander Cataloged Auction Fri., Nov. 21, 2025, Preview 9 AM, Auction 10 AM ET Ten2Go IN PERSON Live Auction Sat., Dec. 6, 2025, Preview 10 AM, Auction 11 AM ET Marquis: The Art Doll Collection of Richard Simmons Cataloged Live Auction Sun., Dec. 7, 2025, Preview 10 AM, Auction 11 AM ET Marquis: Barbie Returns Again Mon., Dec. 15, 2025, Preview 9 AM, Auction 10 AM ET Ten2Go IN PERSON Live Auction Theriaults Gallery | 410.224.3655 info@theriaults.com | www.theriaults.com

Ladenburger Spielzeugauktion Sat., Nov. 8, 2025 Steiff special auction Fri.-Sat., Nov. 14 & 15, 2025 Winter Auction Fri., Nov. 14, 2025 Lopodunum Jewelry Auction 0049 (0) 6203 13014 | mail@spielzeugauktion.de www.spielzeugauktion.de

Frasher’s Auction Sat., Nov. 15, 2025 (free shuttle between K.C. International Airport, Hotel & Expo Center) KCI Expo Center & Holiday Inn Hotel, 11730 NW Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, MO 2323 S Mecklin Sch. Rd. | Oak Grove, MO 64075 816-625-3786 | frasher@aol.com | frashersdollauction.com

SAS (Special Auction Services) Tue., Dec. 2, 2025, 10 AM GMT Rare Beara Auction Tue., Feb. 10, 2026, 10 AM GMT Popular Dolls & Teddy Bears Auction Newbury, UK | +44 (0) 1635 580 595 mail@specialauctionservices.com | specialauctionservices.com

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under 12: FREE. Parking: FREE. Richard Ziller, 703-627-7763, rjziller@hotmail.com.

21-22 ~ Dallas, TX. DollCon Dallas 2026. Westin Central Park Dallas 12720 Merit Dr, 2-day 16+ convention for all types of dolls. (No Children or infants allowed.) Early Bird: 8/1/25 - 11/30/25 ~$35; 12/1/25 - 2/16/26 ~ $50. Kellyann Herrington, c/t 469-630-2205, admin@dollcondallas.com. www.dollcondallas.com/.

22 ~ Strongsville (Cleveland), OH. Northern Ohio Doll & Bear Show. Strongsville Best Western, 15471 Royalton Rd. Admission/door: Early Bird 9 AM: $15; Adults: $6; Children: FREE; Parking: FREE. Eileen Green, c/t 440-283-5839, phdofdolls@yahoo.com.

28-Mar 1 ~ Ontario, CA. West Coast Doll Show.

Welcome to Wonderland “Where Art Comes to Life”. DoubleTree by Hilton Ontario Airport, 222 N Vineyard Ave. Admission/Door (Cash): $20 each day. Parking: FREE. Janie Scott, c/t 661-472-9874.

Westcoastdollshow@gmail.com.

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$10; Parking: FREE. Mary Senko, c/t 425-330-1770, mary.senko@comcast.net. WorldDollDayShows.com.

21 ~ Sarasota, FL. Venice Doll Club - FX Doll & Toy Show & Sale. 9 AM - 2 PM. VFW Sunshine Post 3233, 124 South Tuttle Ave. Admission/door: Early Bird: 8 AM: $10; After 9 AM: FREE; Parking: FREE. Bruce Zalkin, c/t 941-302-0572, fxtoyshows@gmail.com. fxtoyshows.com.

28 ~ Jonesborough, TN. Doll Show & Sale. The Dollhouse. Jonesborough Visitor Center, 117 Boone St. FREE Admission. Donations taken for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Free Parking; Handicap Accessible. Ellen Stafford, c/t 423-753-0022, ellen@jonesdollhouse.com.

Jonesdollhouse.com.

NEW LOCATION! 29 ~ Jackson, MI. Lansing Antique & Collectible Doll Show & Sale. 10 AM-3 PM. American 1 Credit Union Event Center, 128 W Ganson St. Admission/Door: Adults: $5; Children under 12: $1. Free Parking. Sandy Johnson Barts.

269-599-1511. SJBbetsys@comcast.net. Lansing Doll Show.com.

1 ~ Buena Park, CA. Sherri’s Doll Show Featuring Barbie Dolls. 9 AM-2:30 PM. Early Bird: 8:30 AM. Double Tree Hotel, 7000 Beach Blvd.

Admission/Door: Early bird 8:30 AM: $15; Adults: $7; Children: $3; Free Parking. Sherri Gore, c/t 424-394-7612, sherribean7@aol.com.

6-8 ~ Pleasanton, CA. Doll Conference.

Independent Spirits Doll Club “Dolly’s Getaway.”

Fri. 3 PM-Sun. 3 PM. Marriott Pleasanton, 11950 Dublin Canyon Rd. Conference $175 - Registration Required. Sales Room - Sunday, 10 AM - 3 PM. Admission/Door (Cash): $6; under 12: FREE. Anthony Bennett, c/t 707-687 6321, abennett.ufdc. org; rd2n@gmail.com.

7~ Escondido, CA. Cameo Doll Club Show and Sale. 10 AM-2:30 PM. Escondido Elks Club, 2430 S. Escondido. Show info- Mandy Hicks, 760-500-3087.

Dealer info- Patti Morley, 760-443-6799.

14 ~ Phoenix, AZ. Doll, Bear, Miniature Show & Sale. World Doll Day Shows. Celebrating the World of Dolls. Shrine Auditorium, 552 N. 40th St. Special rate ~ Hilton Garden Inn, 3838 E. Van Buren St. Admission/door: General (13 and up):

11 ~ Madison, WI. Madison Area Doll Club “Carnival of Dolls!” 54th Annual Doll Show and Sale. 9 AM - 3 PM. Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center. 1919 Alliant Energy Way. Admission: $10, Under 12 FREE. Parking $8.

Vicki, 608-279-5298, vickijkutz@gmail.com.

MARCH 2026

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