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1980s
New Romantics Paper Doll Fashions
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Today’s Printable Paper Doll Inspirations: A Patron Request for New Romantic Fashions
While I was researching New Romantics fashion for yesterday’s printable paper doll, I discovered that it was a lot easier to identify men’s clothing that was influenced by the style than it was women’s clothing.
This picture was my primary inspiration for the outfit. Because I knew I wanted to tuck the poet’s shirt into the trousers, I had to make it all in one piece
I do sort of regret not going further and doing like an Adam Ant sort of outfit… but there is always next time.
This isn’t the usual way I design paper doll clothing, but I do think you have to the adapt to the medium as it makes sense. In fact, I just finished penciling a regency Sprite’s men’s suit that does the same thing.
Sometimes, it is easiest to draw outfits in one piece, even if that’s not my natural instinct.
Now, I will admit that while I don’t know much about New Romantic fashion, I do have a soft place in my heart for a man in a poet shirt. Can’t lie about that one.
I should add my favorite Adam and the Ants song is Stand and Deliver, but I should say in the interest of full disclosure that his music is more New Wave Punk than New Romantics, or so I’ve been told.
(I still listen to that song while I clean my apartment and dance around, so I will not be deterred from liking it.)
Meanwhile, I don’t really have a guy paper doll with quite the right hair for this outfit, but I might actually recommend Marcus The Warrior. The beads in his hair seem apropos of the style. Super long haired Mikhail might also work, but not as well.
As always, let me know what you think of poet shirts or paper dolls or anything else in the comments.
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Marisole Monday & Friends: A New Romantics Paper Doll & Her Outfit
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Today’s Printable Paper Doll Inspirations: A Patron Request for New Romantic Fashions
One of my patrons asked me last year for some New Romantics paper dolls and I was stumped a little.
First of all, the New Romantics music and fashion movement was born in London and I’m not from there. Secondly, it’s actually tough to research fashion from the 1980s. It just hasn’t been long enough for there to be a lot of scholarly work on the subject.
So, nearly two years passed while I tried to figure out what I was doing.
But now I am pleased to present the first of two New Romantics paper dolls.
The second piece of this set is a set of clothing for the guys of the Marisole Monday and friend’s family.
For those you who, like me, aren’t an expert on these things, the New Romantics or New Romanticism was a movement in the early 1980s. Music wise think David Bowie, Adam Ant and Visage. There’s a decent article about the while thing from the Guardian.
Fashion wise, think poet shirts for men and lots of lace for women. Exotic makeup was also a big trend and wild hair. In fact, I don’t think the makeup I did here was nearly wild enough, but I did the best I could given some of the limitations of pen and ink.
Okay, so I know some of my readers lived through this era (and I did, technically, but I was very very little), how did I do? Let me know in a comment!
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Collaborative Paper Doll Project 2017: The Year I was Born
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Today’s Printable Paper Doll Inspirations:A Dress from 1985
The first theme for our collaborative project was a dress from the year we were each born. So, for me that meant drawing something from 1985.
So, I went loooking for clothing from 1885 and came cross this Barbie dresses from Oscar De La Renta. I love Oscar De La Renta’s designs and I had no idea he’d done a series of Barbie clothing. Inspired, I combined this dress and this dress. You can see more of his Barbie designs here and here.
My mother was pretty anti-Barbie when I was a kid. She felt that it wasn’t a healthy body type for girls to aspire too, so she mostly bought me Ginny dolls. I did have a few Barbies, of course, but they weren’t my favorites.
Anyway, I’m sure Julie and Boots are posting great outfits over on Popculture & Paper Dolls and Paper Doll School, so go check those out to flash out your Collaborative Paper Doll Project wardrobe.
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