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Today’s Printable Paper Doll Inspirations: Montgomery Ward Fashions of the Twenties
Today I am doing something special and posting two Poppet’s dresses- a school dress and a party dress from 1927. First up, the school dress.
When I was a kid, I loved the idea of a school dress. Despite my mother’s horror stories of wearing patent leather shoes to school, I imagined the idea of having a school dress as something very romantic and old fashioned.
Despite realizing that there’s nothing magical about having special dresses for different activities, I still love the concept.
As anyone who has been following this blog for any length of time has probably figured out, I love the idea of changing clothes several times a day for different events.
I do realize in reality, this would be a total pain in the butt, but hey, it’s a neat idea.
So, I knew I wanted to find a school dress for the Poppets for their 1920’s children’s wardrobe collection. This choice is from the Montgomery Ward catalog of 1927.
The pleated skirt makes me think school dress even though there’s no other reason to associate it with such.
I picked out the hat, because I thought the detailing was similar to the dresses piping details. The dress and the hat both come from Montgomery Ward Fashions of the Twenties. I don’t highly reommend this book, unless you already have a lot of 1920s books. It’s just from 1927, so it doesn’t really give you the range of years that some other books do.
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Today’s Printable Paper Doll Inspirations: Montgomery Ward Fashions of the Twenties
When I was going through the Poppet’s 1920s Children’s Wardrobe Collection, I noticed that they didn’t have a party dress. I poured through the different books I have until I found this one in the book Montgomery Ward Fashions of the Twenties.
Something about this dress made me think of spring time, even though outside the weather is chilly and there was even snow a few weeks ago. Snow in Alabama is a big deal. Everyone buys milk and eggs. Even I buy milk and eggs and I don’t even like milk or eggs very much.
I digress.
The point is that I decided to color this dress pale green, because I thought it seemed like a summery dress. The ruched waistline was tough to draw and I am not sure I was entirely successful. I really had fun drawing the ruffles.
I like drawing ruffles.
Tomorrow, I’ll be sharing some clothing probably? I mean, I haven’t really decided yet what to share about the new series. So, I should get on that. 🙂 Friday will be B&B Sorceress gowns.
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Both of these are so beautiful. That hat is fantastic, and your ruffles are great!
Thank you! I love drawing ruffles.
I absolutely agree about changing clothes multiple times during the day- it even makes sense when you think about keeping stuff clean. I love dressing for dinner although don’t do it often. The inbred need to launder things after one wearing makes it impractical.
My grandma used to say that she wore chemises and changed those every day, rather than the main dress. That still gives me a peculiar feeling in my brain.
Laundry was hard back then. So, I get the idea of not washing clothing very often and instead washing cotton/linen underthings. But… yeah, I tend to be a “wash everything” kinda girl. I wonder though, if I didn’t have a washer and dryer, how quickly I would change my mind.