Plastic Barbies didn't get an invitation. Madame Alexander collectibles have no business here. Cabbage Patch Kids will go orphaned another week. The approximately 150 conventioneers at the National ...

NEED MERCHANDISE DESPERATELY read the urgent telegram. The West Coast’s Joseph Magnin Co. was about to open “News Stand” boutiques carrying paper dresses in its 28 stores; informal sales had proved so ...

Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls — hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans — were nearly as rarefied as the real-life versions of the towering headdresses and ruffled gowns they ...

Spending an afternoon with Norma Lu Meehan is a delight. She knows South Bend, her hometown, and Edwardsburg, her summer residence. She has stories about a bustling downtown and those great department ...

After what seems like the longest five months ever (riiiiiight?), we’ve finally reached the unofficial start of summer — the end of May in Los Angeles — and nothing speaks volumes in the City of ...