Pink Jazz Baby

This was an outfit I made especially for the 2006 Takoma Park Jazz Festival in Takoma Park, Maryland. I was working as a vendor at that festival and I had my Volks Dollfie Dream on display as an attention-getting device. (She was not for sale.) Since jazz music reached its height of popularity in the 1920's and since flappers (also known as "jazz babies") were synominous with the 1920's, it was only appropriate that I created a flapper outfit for my doll.

Type of Doll This Outfit Fits:1/3 scale doll (22-24 inches/60 cm).
Pattern It's Based On: I found a doll-sized flapper pattern in the book Period & Contemporary: Patterns for Fashion Dolls by Hazel McMahon. I had to resize the pattern in order for it to fit my Volks Dollfie Dream.
Outfit Description: The dress and cloche hat were made out of cotton fabric. (Two different pieces of fabric were used in making the dress and hat.) The dress is trimmed with beaded fringes around the waste and at the bottom hem. The dress is also trimmed with a metallic zig-zag trim around the front collar down the backside, at the waist above the beaded fringe, and at the bottom hem above the beaded fringe. The top front of the dress and the front of the cloche cloche hat are decorated with pink art deco-style buttons.
Date I Finished Work on It: June 9, 2006

This outfit is modeled in the photos by a Volks Dollfie Dream. Click on any photo below to see a larger version of the same photo open in a new window.

Pink Jazz Baby

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