OT: Mystery Doll Clothes Pattern Book

[kboyd912]

Hi there doll clothing experts!

I'm hoping someone can help me on this - it's driving me crazy!! When I was a girl (late 70's-early 80's) there was a library book of doll clothes patterns I must have checked out 20 times.

It had all sort of historic doll patterns for a family of dolls, starting in the 1600's, and going through the late 1800's. I remember it had a picture of a girl from the 1600's with pigtails, which I thought was strange, but the book said this was actually a hairstyle then. It also had a "Marie Antoinette" style ballgown, I think.

The book also had patterns for cloth dolls to fit the patterns, but had a big list of dolls they would fit (Barbie fit the adult size, Skipper the child size, and so on).

As I remember, the book was a paperback and had a generic name like "Doll Clothes" - but I can't remember the exact name or author. The patterns were printed on the pages and you had to trace them.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I would love to have a copy of this book for my own, but I need the author and/or real title! I made several of the outfits as a child (badly handsewn, but I made them).

Thanks in advance!

[AG Seamstress]

Try doing a search, under books, on Amazon.com, and just put in "doll clothes". You'd be surprised at how many will come up. You might find what you're looking for. There are plenty of books out there, because I have several, but nothing like what you described.

[kboyd912]

Success! I had been searching all over, but someone on another list answered this for me. It was "The Doll Book" by Ann Worrell. It was published in 1966 - wow! Do I feel old!

Good news is that it's still pretty easy to find on alibris, so I'm going to get my copy! Now if they only made something like this for AG!