11″ Daiseyette and Bleuette Doll Patterns – over 50 outfits!
Due to many requests, I have
resized the original Daisy patterns to fit the 11″ Daiseyette and
Bleuette dolls. Now your smaller dolls can dress like their big sister! These are included on a CD in PDF format.
The early part of the 20th
century was the beginning of the advertising revolution. The Ladies
Home Journal had been running Sheila Young’s paper doll pages of Lettie
Lane and her family since October 1908. Lettie Lane had a doll named
“Daisy”. Then someone at the Journal had a marvelous promotion idea.
They would turn Lettie Lane’s paper dolly into a real doll using the
“Daisy” doll as a premium for selling magazine subscriptions.
For
3 subscriptions plus $4.50 you could order a Daisy doll. This campaign
was a huge success. Originally 5,000 dolls were ordered which were made
by the JD Kestner doll company in Germany. This doll was a Kestner 171
head with a composition body. Simon and Halbig also supplied dolls that
are marked Heirich/Handwerck Germany 1. When the campaign was ended
26,000 dolls had been ordered and distributed.
In the January
1911 issue a note written by the editor said, “The Lettie Lane doll
will come to life. It isn’t an easy matter to bring a doll to life and
it takes a little time to do it. For it is going to be done in a way
that no child will ever dream of it being done. So let every child be
patient and just as soon as we can bring it about, the doll will come
to life”.
Finally in the March 1911 issue, Sheila Young, the
paper doll artist, titled her page “Lettie Lane presents her most
beautiful doll to every little Journal girl. “All about Daisy.” “Well,
here she is at last, really come to life. She has been so long in paper
in the Journal. Now she is ready as a real doll to go in the arms and
heart of every little Journal girl. Lettie Lane says, “she is the most
beautiful doll that she has and her name is “Daisy”. Wouldn’t you like
to have her, a real Lettie Lane doll, a beautiful doll to play with
just as Lettie Lane has?”
These set of patterns were shown in
the 1911 Ladies Home Journal with the promotion of Daisy the Doll that
Came to Life, and printed by The Home Pattern Company. The
advertisement states “Any little girl may now have the real daisy for
her very own. Thousands of the dolls, fresh from the German villages
where they are made, are now in the Journal’s offices ready for
immediate shipment.”
There were five such promotions altogether. This listing is for a copy of all five pattern sets.
Each
pattern set includes a color copy of the paper doll page showing the
outfits, a copy of the original cover sleeve and the pattern pieces for
the outfits listed. Please note that the white undergarments shown in the first photo on the left (middle picture) is NOT included, as this was the outfit the doll came in, and is shown in every pattern set.
We are also including 26 patterns that were featured in the La Semaine De Suzette Magazine that were made specifically for the Bleuette doll. They are copies of the original, printed in French. They include:
Robe Brodee
Petite Robe a Volantis
Tablier De Ceremonie
Robe D’ete en Batiste ou Linon Avec Broderie Au Passe
Robe D’ete
Tablier Anglais
Robe de Deaux Etoffes Differentes
Robe a Panneaux Ouverts
Robe en Rubans
Robe Nouvelle a Cocardes
Robe en Foulard Imprime
Robe Brodee
Robe en Soie Legere
Peignoir D’ete
Combinaison Chemise-Culotte
Col de Linon Brode
Petite Veste Kimono en Taffetas
Chemise de Loupee
Tablier Jardiniere
Vetement Japonais et Toque en Fourrure
Costume de Chasse
Capeline Dite Charlotte en Pique ou Toile Ancienne Brodee
Chapeau de Taffeta
Le Corset
Capote Pour Bleuette
Pantalon Ferme
Files on CDs are in PDF format and
were formatted on a PC. I do not know if customers who own Mac
computers can access the files. Please check your computer FIRST before
purchasing to see if you are able to access PDF files. I do not offer
refunds on CDs.
Please note: You will NOT
be receiving a printout of the patterns – just the CD.
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