Fashion preoccupations often dominate the high school girl fantasy, as this scrapbook from the early 1930s amply demonstrates. Pasted onto the pages of a copy of The Delineator, one young girl added huge quantities of additional imagery, making this a unique kind of extra-illustrated book — in which the scale, composition and imposed annotations all correspond to a willful imagination. Worth noting, too, is the fact that this book was made during the Depression, when a young girl’s economic status would have been well at odds with her significant wardrobe aspirations. What better way to obsess over clothes than to paste more pictures into your favorite magazine, and add your own personalized captions?

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