Kit and Molly: Child fashions of the 30s and 40s?

You could check www.gettyimages.com . I always find what I'm looking for there [img]smile.gif[/img] When you get to the main page, click "Creative" then search for "children, 1940s" for example.

I recommend looking at the young movie stars of those times, like Shirley Temple or Judy Garland. What they wore in and out of the movies, followed, or even set trends.
Also, Vogue had some doll patterns out that are, so far as I can pretty historically accurate for those time periods. I believe they're vintage patterns, even.
Vogue1
Vogue 2Vogue 3 (and my favorite for what it's worth.)

Try this site! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Thank you for the links! These pictures are really great!!! In addition, I found some vintage photos of children from the Getty Images site, and they are sooooo cute.

I also found an unexpected surprise... At the Wisconsin Historical Museum site, they listed an AG, girl-sized replica of Molly's Christmas dress. This is a modern-made outfit, but it was still listed in the 1940s category. Very cool! http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/muse...y=OBJECT:79477

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In the picture that has been circulating of Molly and her friend, it shows both of them wearing shoes without socks. All of the sources I have queried, including a number of women who grew up during that period, tell me that just would not have happened. Seeing the picture was very jarring...

Taffy

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Originally posted by Taffy Cheerful:
In the picture that has been circulating of Molly and her friend, it shows both of them wearing shoes without socks. All of the sources I have queried, including a number of women who grew up during that period, tell me that just would not have happened. Seeing the picture was very jarring...

Taffy

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The dolls both have socks. On the Brave Emily book cover I just assumed they had flesh colored nylons on,but I never thought about it really. That is weird now I thought about it because nylons would be rationed and highly unlikely.

Gombe Gal, thank you for posting that link!

WOW, doesn't this one look like Samantha's talent show dress???
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/muse...y=OBJECT:32863

I like this website:
http://www.forties.net/

I also came across this picture on the internet awhile ago. Looks so much like Molly and Kit as they sit and have lunch together. Notice their lunchboxes? So cute!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...3/MollyKit.jpg

Nia [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hi all,

I am writing to ask if anyone knows of any websites showing pictures of child fashions from the 1930s and 1940s. I love fashions from many historical periods, but I do not know too much about what children wore. Right now, I am particularly interested in seeing clothes similar to what Molly and Kit would have worn back in the day.

If you have any photos or links in regard to this, please post them!!! I would definitely love to see them. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] OR you can describe outfits that you own or have seen from these time periods. That would be great as well.

(Also, during World War II, did American children mostly get homemade clothes, or were those purchased in stores?)

Thanks!!!! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Here is a site of school children of the forties:

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cg...=&CISOVIEWTMP=

Long addy! But a good 2 pages of pictures.
Polly Marie

Thank you again for the additional info and links, guys!!! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

I found this on amazon.com... This isn't necessarily fashion, but this book contains colorized photos from American life from 1939-43.

Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081...lance&n=283155

Here's the exhibition with photos:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundfor...y-exhibit.html

Seeing these old photos in color make me feel as though they could've been taken just yesterday. [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

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Seeing these old photos in color make me feel as though they could've been taken just yesterday. [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I colorized some of my family's pictures from the turn of the century, and all of a sudden they didn't look old anymore, more like a a bunch of reenactors or something. [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img]

Wow, those old color photos are awesome. They really do look like they could have been taken yesterday. Really neat to see; thanks for sharing those!

http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index...family#Details

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364254/

http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/index.html

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486423255.html

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486269183.html

http://store.doverpublications.com/048625108x.html

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486275809.html

Joy

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ June 02, 2006 01:19 PM: Message edited by: djsnjones ]</font>

Here's some sites I like that have vintage doll patterns from Kit's and Molly's time as well as from the 1950s:

http://qualityvintagedollpatterns.com/

http://olddollpatterns.com/

http://www.bestvintagedollpatterns.com/

I like using these because it gives you a pattern to work with that is already AG sized (or at least close)...it's really helpful to have something that shows the way a particular style was constructed. I love designing clothes for my dolls, in fact, they are beginning to be regular clothes-horses - haha!

-Ruth [img]graemlins/rainbow.gif[/img]