A Forthcoming Doll Show.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 April 1890, Page 3

A Forthcoming Doll Show.

?> '.'■'■A doll shaw ■• on a gigantic and some what o i»inat plan, which baa . bftfifc organised- in nid of the new 1 Hpftpfta) for Women in Eustonioa4,..vill be opened on April 29 in <Xoridon. The different sections al- ;: • iow of gtpat variety 1 tin doll-dressing. * liases in the. dress of the petiod— morning, evening," bridal, or Court ; . , ..gentlemen dolls ditto, little girl dolls, and bft'nes itt long and semi-long ", : ''Vo,thes, dolls in the gavb of profeasora,;.prints official robes, in State, , •'.' parUam^ntHry/ civic and legaS acade' niie : acholnstic/ mnsonte, dolls in " *' «i?«l, military, postal,- or police uniform, dolls in costumes of the pantpmine, siren* of the ballet, dolls in "working dr^ss of all kinds, arti3an, .service, or ti*ade, are to be "^ included •in the various 'classes. A /.^Special «ec'tion will be formed by '''i3ojilsV ladies and gentlemen, in sportf4res4, hunting,' shooting* fiahinc, f, tennis and boating garb. Uthen agnin will represent heroes, -heroines, > 'of history, fiction, the drama-, a special class being assigned to. characters of nursery romance. Par il .celebrities of to-dny "a double .^hze i?[ offered, and a. section of dolls, !< iu grotesque,; suggestwe. or enible matic drje33 of any kind, offers a wid« fie'd to the fanciful. A special nurse- -section will comprise doll« dressed as patients and nurse, and : others, are. exclusively limited to ; bhildr ( en and pupils on bn*rd, oharity and ii-duptrial schools. Fo^ the best doll of all a prize Jof five guineas is offered.