I Love Enid Collins Purses
Miss Enid Roessler grew up in San Antonio, Texas and went to college at Womens University where she majored in fashion design. She then met and married a sculptor, Frederic Collins and lived on a ranch.
To help out with finances, she opened her first shop in 1959, creating local motifs she grew up with like horses, and also mexicana themes of sun (sol) Pax (peace). She also did an amazing Zodiac series. She expanded her Texan roots to also include French & Hometown Americana themes, as well as the movements from the era of the 60's.
She did hundreds of designs of these purses in a canvas tote style, a bucket style, as well as her famous wood box purses adored with kitchy jewels and sayings like "NIGHT OWL", "GLAMOUR PUSS", "COCK O' THE WALK","MONEY TREE", "LOVE BIRDS" and so many more. They were expertly designed and bedecked with jewels, charms, & beads.
There are so many varieties even in her famous wooden box purses. Some have a flip up lid with full square mirror and others have a round smaller mirror. Most of her purses did have handles even the totes. Some are clutch or wristlet style that have a small carrying handle.
"100 Pink Plastic Dolls Mail-away 1960s"
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I grew up playing with a set of dolls like this. I would love to locate similar toys now. I spent hours lining them up! let me know if you find any.
March 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM
I do have some for sale in my etsy shop....
http://www.etsy.com/listing/69267303/7-tiny-pink-peoplefrom-100-dolls
March 17, 2011 at 5:06 PM
So thrilled to find this post!!
The pink dolls are very precious to me. I wrote a blog post about them some time ago. My grandfather sent away for them when I was a child. I still have the original box and all the dolls intact.
Read here for more information. I am bookmarking this post. I love this!!
http://mimiwrites.blogspot.com/2007/11/dona-nobis-pacem.html
April 17, 2012 at 7:55 PM
I had these as a child. my mother saw the ad in the back of an Archie comic and sent away for the in the late 70's she thought that they wouldn't come but for a $1 why not and to our surprise they came. I loved them.
September 12, 2013 at 8:53 PM
We ordered a set of these around 1976. They weren't quite what we expected, but boy did we have fun with them! I think we had 130 when we counted, and we used them for everything from cake decorations to craft projects - a few were even blown up with firecrackers! Every now and then, we still find one or two in a drawer at my Mom's house!
March 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM