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Paper dolls are still produced and Whitman and Golden Co. still publish paper dolls. Besides movie stars, women of leisure tended to be the women featured in paper doll form. As more women began to enter the work force in the twentieth-century, paper doll manufacturers began to produce dolls that represented career women.
Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were conceived as comic strip characters by American cartoonist Rose O'Neill.The illustrated cartoons, appearing as baby cupid characters, began to gain popularity after the publication of O'Neill's comic strips in 1909, and O'Neill began to illustrate and sell paper doll versions of the Kewpies.
Lilli, also known as Bild-Lilli, is a discontinued West German comic strip created by Reinhard Beuthien for the tabloid newspaper Bild, appearing there from 1952 to 1961.. The toy company Greiner & Hausser Gmbh released a fashion doll line of the same name in 1955, which led Ruth Handler, the co-founder of American toy company Mattel, to launch a similar toyline named Barbie.
Mattel has modeled Barbie dolls after trailblazing activists, athletes, and celebrities. Barbie's Inspiring Women series includes Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Frida Kahlo.
The cartoon Lilli was blonde, but a few of the dolls had other hair colours. Each Lilli doll carried a miniature copy of Bild and was sold in a clear plastic tube, with the doll's feet fitted into the base of a stand labelled "Bild-Lilli" that formed the bottom of the tube; the packaging was designed by E. Martha Maar, the mother-in-law of the ...
Susan Stern's documentary Barbie Nation provides an unauthorized look at Barbie, the world's best-known doll. (Illustration by Jay Sprogell for Yahoo / Photo: Getty Images) (Illustration by Jay ...
A celebrity doll is a doll modeled after a celebrity. Celebrity dolls have been in production for a very long time. In the 1840s, several famous ballerinas were featured as paper dolls. Also in the 19th century, various military heroes were portrayed as dolls or figures. With the advent of silent films, dolls of film stars
Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for more than fifty years. Paris-made fashion dolls from the Théâtre de la Mode (1946) on display at the Maryhill Museum of Art. Many fashion doll lines have been inspired by Barbie, or launched as alternatives to Barbie. Tammy was created by the Ideal Toy Company in 1962. [21]