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tightly-woven cotton, cut to 11 x
8 ½-inch letter size, with lo-tack
adhesive to stick loosely onto thin
backing paper, and then printed it
on an ink-jet printer. The result was
a couple of 11 x 8 ½-inch swatches
printed with my 'XYZ' design, which
was going to make a great contrast for
the bodice and sleeves of the dress.
A more ambitious tailoring
task was based on one of Kate
Mitsubachi's elegant designs from
her book Barbie Mode: Dresses for
Classic Barbie Dolls. I had been put
off by the apparent complexity of the
patterns and the fact that this book
is totally in Japanese (not one of the
languages on the curriculum at my
primary school in rural England).
But buoyed with confidence from
my " XYZ " success, I wanted to
work with a distinguished scrap of
dogtooth check fabric I'd stashed
away. It was tricky to do at this small
scale, and I still find the whole lining
methodology completely perplexing.
But it worked! The dress is built like
an elongated version of a traditional
footman's jacket and yet looks bang
up-to-date on Fashion Royalty's
Future Bound Luchia Z - I love mixing
vintage and modern.
You might have noticed
that I've been pretty
monochromatic in my
choice of dolls and fabrics.
This was by design, on the
basis that if you're trying to
make high-style on a low
budget you're likely to
have more success if you
stick to a limited palette
than if you go truly
garish. Most highstyle
designers
favor muted
colors when
that is truly reflective of our tastes.
I have been trying to downsize for
the past couple of years. If dolls
don't speak to me - and I don't mean
Chatty Cathy! - or if they don't really
add anything, then out they go.
The single-edition doll also has a
certain attraction. Once you have it,
you're done and there's nothing more
to collect, especially if it's a gift-set.
Sometimes it may not have been the
maker's intention to produce just
the one doll, but for whatever reason
that's what happened. So dolls such
as Lee Park's Bambola,
Wendy Roper's Milou,
and Louis Marx's Girl
from U.N.C.L.E. all
have a welcome place
in my collection. Not to
mention the teeny-tiny
Twinkie doll.
On a trip to Scotland,
visiting friends and family
in Edinburgh, I called into
the Museum of Childhood
on the Royal Mile. Situated
between the big-ticket
tourist spots of Hollyrood Palace and
Edinburgh Castle, this little gem of
a museum is often overlooked. It's a
going for a classic
look - think vintage Armani
and Prada.
It's perfectly possible to
have a smaller collection
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Above, top: Lee Park's Bambola.
Middle: Box for Twinkie. Bottom: Milou
by Wendy Roper. Left Louis Marx's Girl
from U.N.C.L.E.
great place for grownups to re-visit
their youth and be reminded of many
childhood toys. There is, of course a
perfectly respectable doll section too.
In a slightly unloved corner of the
museum, tucked away on a bottom
shelf, was a particularly poignant
artifact. The section was devoted
to home-made toys and the power
of imagination was to the fore as
playthings made from the most
unlikely objects were on display. The
one that really caught my eye was
a doll that had been crudely made
from the sole of an old, discarded
shoe. It had been roughly marked
with a face of sorts, and that was it.
This doll resembled the sole of a shoe
more closely than any doll, and yet
it had clearly been loved and played
with by a child in the past.

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