The story of American women can be told through paper dolls. From the Victorian wedding costumes favored by brides of the late 1880s to the belted pantsuits of the 1970s, paper dolls trace the history ...

WASHINGTON — A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, ...

Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...