What Dolls Wore Before: Doll Costumes and Accessories, 1850- 1925 Eleanor Roosevelt fans Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple

It’s not even that intricately carved

Nelly's soft pink flower-petal style party dress is topped by an angora cap in the shape of a strawberry to and stem

Along with classic white apron with pocket and nursing cap  each with embroidered red cross emblem

demi-train

What Dolls Wore Before: Doll Costumes and Accessories, 1850- 1925 Eleanor Roosevelt fans Shirley TempleBy Florence Theriault. This is the fourth book in a series by the noted author. Nearly 500 antique dolls costumes, shoes, bonnets, baby clothes, undergarments, pinafores, mariner costumes, and folkloric costumes are featured in beautiful explicit photographs. Detailed descriptions help the reader identify materials and construction techniques, how to choose an appropriate costume and how to preserve these rare and fragile reminders of a fashionable