Susanna Oroyan has written several other doll making books. 'Finishing The Figure' includes tips on making clothes and shoes.

When developing the pattern for our quarter-scale fashion doll I used an excellent book called 'Anatomy Of A Doll' by Susanna Oroyan.

This 1959 Barbie doll outfit is called 'Suburban Shopper'. If you are not a big 1950s fashion fan, sets of Barbie's clothes from the 1960s are shown in 'Barbie Fashion Volume 2' and from the 1970s in 'Barbie Fashion Volume 3'.

My favourite Barbie book is 'Barbie Fashion Volume 1' By Sarah Sink Eames. Each page has pictures of the full sets of Barbie's clothes with accessories from 1959 to 1967. If you are planning to treat yourself to this book you may want to shop around for a better price than the one that I have found on Amazon.

Another book that I will be bringing in to class is 'Barbie - Her Life and Times' by Billy Boy.

'Theatre de la Mode Fashion Dolls' is a fabulous and informative book with pages and pages of pictures of these beautiful hand-made dolls dressed in perfect scaled-down 1940's couture fashions.

Several books have inspired the development of 'Vintage Fashion Dolls' at Central Saint Martins and I refer to some of them when I teach the course. The most inspiring for me is 'Theatre de la Mode Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture'.