All About Dress Up Games

You might have heard the term tossed around by your daughter and her friends, but what is a dress up game? Is it the kind of game you remember from your childhood with outdated clothes and your mother's shoes? It can be, but in today's online world, dress up games are much more than actually playing dress up in the play room - it's a huge online phenomenon.




The best thing about the online dress up games is the ability to update the games and websites frequently. Your paper version was limited to what came in the set. Your daughter's modern paper dolls are limited only to what the designers fell like creating on a particular day.

When you think about dress up games, your best reference would be the paper dolls of your youth. Those dolls had an attractive base, or girl, dressed in underwear or a swimsuit, and you dressed her in various outfits provided in the same set. If you were truly adventurous, you might make additional clothing by tracing the doll through white paper and creating your own designs.

Today, those paper dolls have moved online. Your daughter can sit at the computer and pull up one of hundreds of dress up game websites. On each site she'll find dozens, if not hundreds, of games similar to the paper dolls you knew so well. Each game usually centers around a particular theme, perhaps Prom or Celebrities. Then she will simply select clothing items from the multitude available to dress her online base.

Dress up games are not only fun to play with but they are also useful. Here are just some examples of dress up games uses:

1. Create Avatars- avatars are very important online. If you are not really comfortable showing your real pictures online, avatars can be very handy. Also for some, avatars are great way to express their own personalities.

2. Story Illustrations - Girls who enjoy playing dress up are most likely creative at heart, so they might use the dolls as a basis for a story. Perhaps a young designer creates a mermaid according to her specifications. Then she can print out the mermaid or save and import her into a word processing program. Then the mermaid creates the perfect illustration and inspiration for the story.