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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

1950s Paper Dolls

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

In the cookie-cutter conservative era of the 1950s, even good, wholesome girls were undressing Elvis, and not just in their minds.

Young women across America indulged their fashion-fueled fantasies with little paper playmates of the rock-’n'-roll king, the latest subject from a thriving paper-doll industry that knew its audience well.

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-scrappy-history-of-paper-dolls/

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