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You are very happy to have acquired a doll and want of nothing to be
unaware of: manufacturer, marks characteristics, date most exact
possible, all that relates to its morphology. her wig has also an
important place in the authenticity of your doll.
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. Gravure tirée du
" Magasin des Demoiselles " recueil 1850/1851
But it should now to dress her in connection with her time.
She
was sold to you bearing more or less pretty clothing and
which
perhaps contributed to your "very favourite ".
It is necessary nevertheless to be realistic and to attempt to give her most exactly possible in " her time ". The merchants thread on their dolls clothing which will be able to facilitate her sale but which often does not correspond to the date of their manufacture. |
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Gravure
tirée de
"Mémoire d'une petite fille devenue grande " par Eugénie FOA, non daté
The error generally made on this subject is due to the
trousers.
It is amusing to see small underwear trousers to exceed dress and underskirt, that made more " old-fashioned " , but it is necessary well to be convinced which this coquettery had only a time and cannot in no case to adapt at the time of the great majority of the dolls that each one of us has. Except for the happy collectors which have dolls known " Parisian " from very first years of the second empire, one should not allow oneself to make exceed the trousers lower than the dress. You defer to the superb book of Marea Tarnowska. |
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. Gravure de droite
tirée de
"Métamorphose d'une poupée " de Marie Guerrier de Haupt ( 1877 ) |
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Gravure tirée de " La Poupée Modèle - Journal des Petites Filles " 15 Juin 1864
You will see there that the majority of these
dolls,
wrongly called " de mode " date from the last years of the second
empire and the beginning of the third republic, say until 1880
(appearance of the first " Babies ") and that for several years the
trousers have been invisible under the dress.
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Tirées d'un livre rare intitulé commz le journal " La Poupée Modéle " sans nom d'auteur, Pas de date. une gravure du même ouvrage pourrait être assortie d'un minuscule MDCCCLXV ? ? ? |
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So that your dolls are dressed correctly and give a
reflection of
the mode of their time, the surest means is to refer to the many
fashion magazines for ladies and also to those for dolls. That does not
miss and constitutes a documentation much more correct than the
catalogues of sale in which the dolls proposed are not always correctly
dressed.
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Let us quote " La Poupée Modèle "
until 1920, " Le
Journal des Demoiselles ", "La Mode illustrée " , "La
Semaine de
Suzette ", later" Le Journal de Lisette ". All these journeaux will
provide you models perfectly adapted to the " age " of your " girls ".
The Coleman (Volume II) is also an inexhaustible source of informations
for your dolls.
You like your dolls, you will want as well as possible to have them of their beauty. Avoid to them the anachronisms ! Suzanne GAUTROT |
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