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7/24/09

Paper Doll Heaven

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Choosing Paper Doll Heaven

One might wonder what's on these Games Dress up your daughter continues to talk. You can reject versions as the mother of the former dress up games you used to play with the clothes your mother. It's a bit like that, but contributions to the nature of the Internet, it became a world sensation.

All that are Dress Up Games?

The best way to understand is to remember the paper dolls that you used to love so much. They had a base of paper or cardboard, with a girl or a doll in underwear. There were several dresses of paper and the clothes you had to cut, so that you can dress your doll. The most creative girls who make their own paper so that the clothes they always have new clothes for their dolls.

Thanks to technology and the Internet, paper dolls dolls have become virtual must click and drag, rather than cut and paste. With people from around the world by creating new, every day, the number of sites with games of dress has increased enormously. And each site having at least a few dozen games, there's really no limit to the number of dolls that your daughter can play with.paper doll heaven

Virtual Dolls, the descendants of Paper Dolls

Although the game mechanics are the same, virtual dolls have a much wider range of styles of clothing. Although the paper dolls came in a package that has some pieces of clothing, pieces of virtual doll clothes are limited to the imagination of the designer.

In addition, paper doll clothing is rather conservative and classic, with only minor variations of dresses, skirts and blouses, which did not really challenge the imagination. Virtual dolls can become students, teachers, police, astronauts, pirates, singers, actresses and almost anything that your daughter wants to be when she grows up.

What is the point of Dress Up Games?

The same as paper dolls, just to have fun by dressing a doll. The girls play for the same reason that the paper dolls that you played in your childhood. However, because they are in their most elementary nature, digital information, you can save them and give them to other uses.

Avatars

An avatar is a representation of self in a site that presents online social interaction. While many people use images of themselves as avatars, it is not desirable for security reasons. Much less in the case of your daughter! Recording a doll as a virtual image and then reload the picture as an avatar will keep your daughter safe strangers.

Illustrations for the stories

Most girls who play dress up games have a lot of imagination and creativity. Virtual doll could be the main character of his first story. Having an image of a character, it will be easier to develop a story. Friends and enemies of nature can be created through a game and dress.

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5/8/09

Paper Doll

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Collecting Paper Dolls
Executive Summary By Narcissa Summerfield and Annette Jensen

Snip, snip, snip with the scissors; around the base, along the curves and finally the last snip. The dolls, clad in colorful swimsuits, stood near by awaiting the final cut of their wardrobe. Are you old enough to remember the joy of ? Paper doll collecting needs very little room for storage only rivaled by stamp collecting for minimal space required. The dolls are an inexpensive pleasure that is not a lost art. Many of the outfitted dolls were designed for adult entertainment with stages included. Magazines would even offer paper dolls within their pages. The popularity of paper dolls was not lost on the marketing branches of several industries during the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. Some dolls required the addition of coloring which kept many children busy designing their own fashion couture. The dolls included inanimate objects and animals too. Popular dolls that were available over the past two hundred years included royalty, public leaders, movie stars, fantasy fairy tale style characters, family groups, stuffed animals and even cherubs.

Publishers took advantage of the love of the paper dolls and created complimentary dolls for some of the comics. The publishers encouraged people to submit original ideas for the clothing / costume designs for the comic characters. The public popularity waned during the 1960's with the rise of the three dimensional fashion doll industry but that has not deterred many from creating and collecting paper dolls. Dig a little deeper and do a search at www.google.com, www.yahoo.com or www.msn.com and you will find many very talented artists still creating beautiful pieces of art. The search will even provide you with many free resources for starting you paper doll collection.

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Vintage Paper Dolls - The Beginning

In Pioneer America, vintage paper dolls were a valuable treasure since paper was limited. You were given a paper doll, maybe two. The paper doll provides a very broad look at the cultures from all around the world. The most obvious were the vintage paper dolls representing royalty and for the children of royalty.

Paper dolls first appeared in the 18th Century in Paris, during the reign of Louis XV. On the other side of the English Channel, proper British printers printed the paper dolls. They would mix fun and virtue by printing stories with morals and values, on flat sheets of paper, and that comprised the dolls. Vintage paper dolls were then produced as a beautifully lithographed full-color collection. It was from that era the paper doll was invented.

In 1866, an artist named Raphael Tuck, was perhaps the best known manufacturer of the vintage paper dolls. The trademark style of this company was the set of vintage paper doll costumes and interchangeable heads. There were dolls representing actors from the theater, stage, opera and even television. The time when the vintage paper dolls were the most popular was during the 1930's to the 1950's. Collecting vintage paper dolls is exciting and can be done very inexpensively. Venture back in your memories of sitting down with your paper dolls, playing with your friends. Now you will be able to relive those memories with your vintage paper dolls collection.

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