Girls' Toys That Have to Do With Designing Clothes

Fashion Design Studio

• Manufactured by Faber Castell, the Fashion Design Studio includes nearly every item a girl could need to design and create miniature versions of her own fashion designs. Girls can draw their ideas out in the sketchbook before transferring them to a 12-inch dress mannequin suited for children older than nine. Items in this kit include selections of fabric, embellishments, measuring tape, glue, instructions and ideas, scissors, sewing needle and thread. In July 2011, this item sells for approximately $25.

Designed By You Special Occasion Fashions Kit

• Faber Castell also makes a kit in which girls can build fancy outfits, including designing and making miniature prom dresses and wedding gowns. This kit includes many of the same items as the Fashion Design Studio, but the Special Occasion Fashions Kit also has decorative roses, ribbons and bows to enhance the outfits. The manufacturer recommends this product for children over 9 years of age, and it retails for around $27.

Fashion Design Portfolio

• Fashion Angels makes the Fashion Design Portfolio and recommends children from 8 to 15 use it. Girls can explore their sense of fashion design with stencil sheets they can use on a sketch pad or pages with a model's form. With more than 100 different hair, clothing, makeup and accessory stencils, girls can draw thousands of combinations. This product sells for $10.

My Style Studio: Design &Trace Your Own Fashions

• My Style Studio: Design &Trace Your Own Fashions comes from the editors of "Klutz" and allows girls the opportunity to learn how to draw and design their own fashions. The kit includes colored pencils, a pen, a pencil and a sharpener for girls to use on a sketch pad or on tracing paper. It also has vinyl clings that they can mix and match to make traceable outfits, improving their drawing skills in the process. This item costs about $15.