The Playmobil Victorian dollhouse was a status symbol for millennial girls — not because it reflected anything about our real lives, but because it offered a portal to the so-called “olden times.” If you were the lucky owner of one, it meant you had taste — the kind of taste a seven-year-old associates with miniature fainting couches and heavy drapery. …
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