| Dressup games are certainly nothing new. In fact, I | | | | Sometimes I cut out the dolls and other times I did |
| have loved the various forms of fashion games for | | | | not. But either way, I spent hours looking at the |
| much longer than most people have even realized | | | | beautiful dresses of the Victorian era or imagined |
| they have been around. The journey through fashion | | | | what it was like on the hot plains of Texas with my |
| games has been long, but fortunately it is been quite | | | | pioneer paper dolls. I had such huge numbers of |
| enjoyable along the way. | | | | paper dolls, they filled a small trunk and I still have |
| Dolls and Dressup Games | | | | them today. |
| The earliest dressup games were Barbies - the only | | | | Fashion Plates |
| fashion doll available twenty odd years ago. The | | | | After the paper dolls, I developed a love of fashion |
| Barbie games were simple enough - plastic doll with a | | | | plates. The plates let you design your own dolls by |
| few outfits to choose from. I liked the ball gowns | | | | simply positioning different raised pictures under a |
| best of all and we could drag out the Barbies with | | | | page of paper. Arrange the head, body and legs you |
| the cars, horses and houses to all enjoy together. | | | | want and then rub a crayon over the top to design a |
| When the games got a bit blasé, we simply | | | | page of fashion. The end result is fashion of your |
| spiced them up a bit. | | | | very own, much like the dress up dolls we love |
| The best ways we added some life back into Barbie | | | | today. |
| games was to make our own clothing. Not especially | | | | Dressup Dolls Today |
| blessed with seamstress skills, most of my Barbie | | | | Today there are plenty of Barbie and Bratz games, |
| clothing was constructed of odd socks. The narrow | | | | but the paper dolls seem to have moved online. |
| crew neck of the socks made a perfect micro dress | | | | Playing paper dolls now is a virtual thing. To play with |
| and we had socks in every color under the sun | | | | the dolls, you select a doll base and then find the |
| completing Barbie's wardrobe. | | | | outfits you like to put on the doll. There is no cutting |
| Paper Dolls | | | | and pasting involved although I have found you have |
| After butchering Barbie's hair more than a few times, | | | | to dig a bit harder to find the historical aspects of |
| I moved on to the next sort of fashion dolls - paper | | | | the fashion dolls. But regardless, I love these fashion |
| dolls and doll plates. Paper dolls are as educational as | | | | dolls as much as I have always loved dressup games. |
| they are entertaining. I had an immense collection of | | | | Summary: |
| paper dolls in all manner of dress and styles. The | | | | Dress up games have evolved from Barbie dolls, to |
| paper dolls were in book and you had to cut out all | | | | paper dolls, to fashion plates and now online dress up |
| of the dolls and all of the clothing if you wanted to | | | | games. As the way of dress up is done evolved, |
| actually play with them. I collected the books from all | | | | anyone has access to a wide variety of clothes to |
| kinds of different sources, primarily on family | | | | be use for dress up. |
| vacations. | | | | |