Something popped into my head - cut-out paper dolls. When I was little, I used to make evening dresses that would fold onto a cardboard adult doll. They came in comic book formats in the 1950s. We made glamorous evening gowns for celebrity stars in Hollywood.
"Between 19th and 20th century paper dolls were used by department stores as fashion advertisement. Paper dolls started appearing in ladies magazines and helped sell clothes and other items such are coffee, flour, chocolate, sewing machines, nail polish, underwear, fabrics, cars, soaps and threads. When comic books started appealing to the female market, paper dolls started appearing in comic books too. Some paper dolls were inspired by comic book characters."
At Christmas there were Santa Claus towns to cut-out and set up. There are lots of these on the internet now. Here's the promo: "It's amazing what can be done with just paper and glue..."
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