Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls — hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans — were nearly as rarefied as the real-life versions of the towering headdresses and ruffled gowns they ...

Searching for your next stay-at-home activity? With help from gifted artists and designers, T Magazine is making it easy for readers to cut out and dress up paper dolls. By Sara Aridi Times Insider ...

The precocious, supernaturally gifted Eleven from Netflix’s Stranger Things will probably be a popular Halloween costume choice this year. There are many ways to dress up like the tween with ...

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs. When a new Sears catalog arrived at our home, the old one was set aside, available for play. My sister and I would pour through it, looking for just ...

Few women’s wardrobes have undergone the scrutiny that Kate Middleton’s has received since her engagement to Prince William was announced last fall. Yet notoriously tough critics in the fashion world, ...

Paper dolls, a vital part of children’s lives and fashion culture for generations, have always been meant to be instructive: to teach young women and girls how to look and behave. But, from the start, ...

I made a 2-year-old cry. I put her cheese stick in her little hand and quickly put the plastic wrapper in the wastebasket under the kitchen sink. The pipsqueak, my great-niece, Lily, began to sob as ...