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, ...
Paper dolls, a vital part of children’s lives and fashion culture for generations, have always been meant to be instructive: to teach young women and girls how to look and behave. But, from the start, ...
It was the early 2000s, I was 11 and living at my grandmother’s house in Missouri for the summer. The rubber bands on my braces were a mildewy shade of purple, and I had just developed my first ...