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Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls — hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans — were nearly as rarefied as the real-life versions of the towering headdresses and ruffled gowns they ...

NEED MERCHANDISE DESPERATELY read the urgent telegram. The West Coast’s Joseph Magnin Co. was about to open “News Stand” boutiques carrying paper dresses in its 28 stores; informal sales had proved so ...

Spending an afternoon with Norma Lu Meehan is a delight. She knows South Bend, her hometown, and Edwardsburg, her summer residence. She has stories about a bustling downtown and those great department ...

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 ...

Few women’s wardrobes have undergone the scrutiny that Kate Middleton’s has received since her engagement to Prince William was announced last fall. Yet notoriously tough critics in the fashion world, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fashion, power and what powerful people wear. Wilde had some radical ideas about clothes, which he espoused in ...