The Building of... THE PRIORS ... a doll room

So what is a fashion doll? It's a doll that is shaped like an adult human, as in not a child or baby doll. Before Barbie came out in 1959 most adult dolls were paper, then Ruth Halder (inventor of Barbie)  found the Bild Lilli doll while on holiday in Germany. She returned to the USA and after some back and forth Barbie was created. This is not meant as a history lesson for more details there are books and google. Bild Lilli and a #1 Barbie both from the collection of Louise Scarlett Sinclair Cook   This is more about shape and size So the first Barbie came out in 1959 followed by Ken in 1961 (not my photo) Over the years Barbie and Ken have changed shape a few times, to fit in with the body shapes of that era. There have been other fashion dolls  through the years Sindy(1963) and her boyfriend Paul (1965-1967) then again in the 80's (1987-1989).  Photos by SinkySnap Tressy (1963-1965) with the grow out hair along with others.  (not my photo) Only Sindy has last...

 If you are not interested in wallpaper you might want to move on to the next post. I use the doll to show scale and I have left in a couple of bloopers. My wallpaper collection started about 30 years ago and while I have thrown out a few I still have ...well a lot!   The picture below shows what happens if you use the wrong kind of glue. This is the type of paper you get for model railways and I did it like other papers using a boarder glue.. not such a good idea.   Below is another example of when things don't go to plan. This was a second use board and it just does not work. Not sue why this has gone two tone? It has been stored away from light?  So many more to add