This episode of The Amanda Series, Amanda's New Life, continues the story of the young Woman who pioneered from Tennessee to Texas with her parents in 1838. Beginning her journey (and her journal) in Book I Amanda Goes West, the narrative is illustrated with authentic fashions appropriate to the period. Interspersed are historical facts, cultural events, and social history of Texas on its new frontiers. Based on actual accounts of young women who pioneered in Texas and using as guidance existing garments and artifacts from The Museum Collection, the story has been woven with fact-based details by a long-time Museum Costume Curator. Illustrations are original art works by a professional fashion illustrator who incorporates knowledge of construction with her artistic renderings. While Book I dealt with the trip by wagon train and settlement on a new frontier, Book II takes Amanda through marriage, movement to a new frontier, Texas' statehood, motherhood, loneliness, and happy times. Book III will cover the Civil War period, acquisition of a sewing machine, more weddings, arrival of grandchildren, a trip to the Nation's Centennial Exposition, and another new world in Amanda's Home on the Range. Throughout the series, the reader will be charmed with the skillfully illustrated journal entries relating to Amanda, her family, her life, and her world. Unique, in the paper doll world, The Amanda Series brings you not only style guidance associated with paper dolls, but a story based on facts, to be relived and to reawaken the world of another era. Whether cut out for play or displayed for enjoyment, it promises to be a conversation piece, a fashion reference, a collector's treasure, and a source of entertainment.
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For three decades Betty J. Mills served as curator of costume and textiles at the Museum of Texas Tech University. In addition to the Amanda Series, Lynette C. Ross has illustrated many of the paper doll volumes published by Texas Tech University Press.
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This review is from: Amanda's New Life: A Journal of Fashion History through Paper Dolls (Amanda Series) (Paperback)
I bought this with some trepidation because I could only view one page of costumes and the back, but I was very pleasantly surprised. There are twenty pages in this book and they are all full of costumes with some journal entries at the bottom of the page. For Amanda there are twelve dresses and many other articles of clothing and accessories. Matthew has four outfits and the children (three) have one additional outfit each (besides when they are in a christening dress and in the outfit in which the dolls comes dressed. I was impressed with how many items of clothing came in the book and with their obvious researched detail and beautiful coloring. Based on this book I will be buying the other two in this series.
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Very nice.,
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This review is from: Amanda's New Life: A Journal of Fashion History through Paper Dolls (Amanda Series) (Paperback)
This is a very charming series of books, but I suspect that the research on which they were based is slightly flawed, or possibly a just a little outdated.
(I'm not a historian but) my impression has always been that the skirt-and-Zouave-jacket outfit over a Garibaldi blouse was fashionable for preteen and teenaged girls but would probably not have been worn by middle-aged women. One thing I do like is that dresses are frequently made-over and reappear later in the book in new forms, which was done very often but which most paper doll books don't feature. It also features dresses made of makeshift materials during the Civil War, which is something else that is usually considered too un-glamorous for doll books.
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Wonderful illustrations! This is an excellent way for girls to learn Texas History.
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John Nathan New!
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