Book excerpt: Make 115 authentic doll clothing projects to dress your 20th century dolls. Add this important, fact-filled project book to your library. Ideal for every doll dressmaker, doll collector, hospital, and costume enthusiast, Sewing for Twentieth Century Dolls provides you with all the vital designing, decorating and making knowledge. Full-size patterns, based on original clothes found on old dolls, allow you to create authentic costumes for a variety of dolls. Fashion sketches organised by decades from 1900 to 1971, along with a great deal of background material, make this a must for fashion composition and identification. With 115 projects, you can make classic fashions for your dolls -- cardigans, blazers, nautical costumes, shirt-waist dresses, hats and other hair accessories, stockings and shoes -- with complete patterns and a detailed stitching guide.