Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Sewing - Dolls' Dressmaking from 1950






From the May, 1950 issue of Woman's Day magazine, three pages on making dresses for two different doll sizes.  There are no patterns offered - p3 has instructions on how to cut pieces using the doll body as a guide.  Left-click to enlarge.

 

3 comments:

Lady Anne said...

I was born in '42 and my sister in '47. I made a lot of clothes for dolls like those!

Sam said...

Still have the baby doll dresses my grandmother made from these patterns.

Shay said...

I have e-reprints of three Enid Gilchrist (Google her, her books are marvelous) doll clothes books that have the base patterns for both of these doll sizes. Now I just have to bushwack a path to my sewing machine through all the junk that we've been storing in the sewing room.