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Miss Maybelle

15" tall x 9" wide x 9" deep

Miss Maybelle is a saloon girl from the Old West. Although not considered "respectable" by proper ladies, saloon girls were not so-called "fallen women". Saloon girls were paid by the bar owners to talk to lonely men, dance with them, and encourage them to buy drinks from which they made a commission. There were few means of making a living for a single woman in this era and a pretty girl could make a good living this way. Often she would have her pick of suitors and marriage proposals.

Miss Maybelle is a soft sculpture art doll with a needle sculpted face colored with prisma pencils and pastels. She has tiny applied eyelashes and a mohair wig.

Miss Maybelle wears a red silk dress which is cut low in the bodice to show off her décolletage and high in the skirt front to display her shapely calves. Her dress features black lace appliqué at the bodice, trimmed in beads and sequins, and lace edging at the hem. Her net stockings are held up with red silk ribbons. She wears black leather high top boots with suede laces. She holds a white fan trimmed with a red ribbon, a gift from an admirer.