When I was a kid I used to love cut out paper dolls with clothes you fixed on with tabs. I started drawing and making extra dresses for them. I then progressed to making my own model like ladies with my own designs of clothes, evening dresses etc. I made hundreds of them I was still doing them into my early teens.
I wanted to be a dress designer, but realised there as more to dress design than drawing and you had to sew and make the clothes. I would have liked to go to college to do this but it wasn't something the nuns at my school encouraged, and my parents didn't know about such things, perhaps I wasn't ambitious enough.
I landed up at secretarial school and did clerical work all my life. Most girls at my school aspired to be a teacher, nurse or secretary before they got married and had kids.
Recently I have found books with wonderful cut out dolls, with fashions from Victorian, 1920s, 30s etc. I even found one with Jane Austin fashion and swinging 60s, I'm a big kid with these!