Saalfield's Double Date (#4426) is a reprint of their 1957 #2757 Double Date. It has the same dolls, though possibly fewer pages of clothes (which is common with reprints). The reprint is die-cut, printed entirely on card stock-like paper, so the dolls are printed on the same page as the clothes. I never liked punch-out paper dolls because the perforations always looked sloppy and there was a huge tendency for tabs to tear off when taking them out of the page.
This set is like many teen-age sets- the girls look like they're going on 35, and the guys look 14, and they all wear incredibly high-waisted pants. Maybe it's a babysitter double date. And in keeping with tradition- this set is not labeled as a Cheerleader set, therefore it does have a cheerleader outfit (as opposed to many Cheerleader sets with nary a pom pom).
Click on the images to enlarge, right click to save as jpgs. You might want to print this whole set on card stock.
Oh, those boys' clothes--the colors, the stripes, those green pants and the general dorkishness of it all. I love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathi - as usual beautiful graphics... Why do the guys usually look so... Oh I don't know.... :-) Jan
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, carolyn and jan. I think they deliberately drew the guys to be, how you say, *non-threatening*... Very few paper doll sets with guys had even a hint of testosterone. I do have one teen set with a guy who looks like someone who has gone through puberty- I'll have to upload it one of these Thursdays.
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