This little fashion doll sewing pattern which was produced by McCall in 1971 offers six different outfits for little tiny six inch dolls, like the Topper Dawn dolls. In fact, it seems to fit a number of very small fashion dolls. I’ve listed them in the purple textbox for you.
But there’s more to this pattern than meets the eye…
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Compare the six outfits shown on the cover art (Figure 1) to the line drawings on the back of this McCall’s 2970 doll clothes wardrobe sewing pattern envelope. Do you see what’s featured in the line drawing that’s not featured in the cover art?
Underpants, of course!
They’re down in the lower-left-hand corner of the line drawings. And in figure 3, that’s my Topper Dawn doll, modeling the underpants after I used the McCall’s 2970 doll clothes sewing pattern.
It’s actually pretty common to find undisclosed underpants in a doll clothes sewing pattern. I suppose the big commercial pattern companies thought they were being discreet by not including the underpants among the illustrations on the pattern envelope.
You can see, for example, that the McCall’s 9061 doll clothes pattern (shown above) illustrates the dolls’ underpants as an item hanging from a laundry line. This was actually considered risqué back in the 1950’s and 1960’s!
I remember hanging laundry with one of my aunts as late as the 1970’s, and she informed me that all undergarments need to be hidden on the “in-between” areas of the laundry line, so the neighbors couldn’t see them. So yeah, that was a thing!
Anyway, Topper Dawn dolls (shown in the image above) are among the many dolls that can fit in the McCall’s 2970 doll clothes sewing pattern, so of course I had to try out the little underpants pattern included as a “hidden gem” in this pattern set.
At six inches tall, Topper Dawn dolls were one of the few fashion dolls that could fit in sort-of smallish doll houses without looking out-of-place.
So these might be the tiniest underpants I’ve ever made! And I was surprised to discover that this pattern would fit on another surprising doll, which I’ll cover in another blog post later on because, frankly, I’ve probably said enough for a Monday. Now I want to hear from you!
Question: What are the smallest underpants you’ve ever made for a doll?
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