Buster Brown Paper Dolls
from Anne and Timmy
Anne and Timmy have sent me some fascinating new additions to our series
on Buster Brown - antique Buster Brown paper dolls!
The paper doll was a wonderful idea, because it was so cheap to produce
compared with real dolls, and paper dolls first appeared when many families
could not afford real dolls for their children. Buster is wearing his beautiful
Mary Jane style shoes, which were later a speciality of the Buster Brown
Shoe Company. Sailor suits, of course, were very common for both boys and
girls in Edwardian times.
These are examples of the 'classic' Buster Brown suit, with bloomered pants
and a big floppy bow at the collar. In the second picture Buster is obviously
dressed for going out in cold weather.
Of course, it would be impossible to leave out Buster's extraordinary
companion, Tige!
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