Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Fashion Plates


Fashion Plates were released by Tomy in the early 1970s. Choosing from a large variety of indented plates that contained drawings of various fashion items – dresses, tops, pants – you would choose the combination that suited your tastes and assemble them into a base. By placing a piece of paper over the base, you could then glide a black crayon over it, which would create an image of your fashion statement. Then, by turning the paper over and selecting from a number of textures, you could take the set of colored pencils out and begin adding a splash of color to the designs. The process itself wasn’t all that time consuming – but it was somewhat addictive, given the seemingly endless number of choices you had at your disposal.

5 comments:

  1. It's got all those fashionable traits,
    And they call it Fashion Plates.

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  2. I loved this toy too! My daughter just played with it for the first time at Grandma's house over Christmas. I had tried to find something similar at the toy store, but there didn't seem to be anything. Either that, or the clothing styles were way too trampy.

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  3. OMG!! hahahahahah I had these when I was little!!
    GUESS WHAT...
    Now I am going to school for fashion design!!!

    funny isn't it!

    I think when we are children we KNOW what is best for ourselves and our future. Somehow as we age, we seem to forget. Luckily some of us remember!

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  4. I had this. I haven't thought about this in years. It was quite fun.

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  5. I still have mine. It was one of my favorites growing up.

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