Patterns for Making Dolls and a toy elephant (Victorian Toys – 1892)
- 1892 Delineator Fashion Culture Fine Arts Magazine Cover
- How to Measure for a Victorian Pattern – and The back pages of the 1892 Delineator Fashion Magazine
- Victorian fashion advertisements, household appliance ads, and misc. ads
- Victorian Ads for Burpee’s Seeds, skin bleach creams, typewriters, pianos, and more
- Victorian beauty advertisements, and other misc ads
- Illustrated patterns for Victorian Dolls and Toys
- Victorian Advertisements: Dress Trimmings, Fur Coats, Beads, Stamps, New Mother Instructions, and More
- Victorian Handcrafts, Flowers, Beauty Advice, and Moral Advice
- Victorian Crochet, Knit, and Lace Making Patterns
- Yarn Doll instructions, Brazilian Embroidery Patterns, Fur trimmings, Seasonable Millinery, and How to Care for Canaries – misc
- Illustrated Miscellany: 1892 Hat Fashions, Victorian Embroidery, Dressmaking at Home, and other household crafts
- Patterns for Making Dolls and a toy elephant (Victorian Toys – 1892)
- 1890s Children’s Fashions – styles for boys and girls
- 1890s Fashions for Misses and Girls (Winter of 1892 – The Delineator)
- Winter 1892 Ladies Sleeve, Skirt, Bustle, and Skirt Train Fashions
- 1892 Cloak, Coat, and Basque Fashions
- Fashions for January 1892
- Remarks on Current Fashions & Fashion Illustrations from 1892
- 1892 Fashion Magazine – 10 scans from the Delineator
Here are some instructions and advertisements for patterns so that the Victorian mother in 1892 could make fashionable doll clothing and a toy elephant for her little ones. It suggests using leftover scraps from sewing the girl’s and mother’s dresses, to make doll clothes out of. In particular, Surah, China Silk, and cashmere are recommended materials for doll clothes, since they’re pretty and durable.
These include tips for making:
- a dress with a guimpe (for dolls 12-24 inches tall) – perfect for making social calls with Mother
- a doll’s toilette with a dress and tam-o-shanter cap
- a girl’s doll’s night gown (consisting of a skirt, drawers, and underwaist, so she is appropriately attired for bed time)
- dress and guimpe, perfect for receiving guests in
- … and ideas to make a toy elephant with a blanket.
It ends with notes on New Years winter fashions.
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