NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The 'baby dolls,' an on-again, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans' African-American community, are on again... NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The “baby dolls,” an on-again ...

The costume and the baby bottle next ... where African-Americans gathered to celebrate carnival, disrupting many traditions. The baby dolls faded, until several years ago. On Mardi Gras day ...

Only a handful of women celebrated Carnival Day in the signature satin dresses and baby ... dolls are seen as a Black community tradition, but the Golden Eagle group includes white women in costume.

At the time, Carnival mostly consisted of celebrations ... will mark her 10th anniversary “masking,” or dressing in costume, as a “Baby Doll,” a longtime tradition in the city’s Black ...

Her daughter said she sewed wedding clothes and other designs as well as Baby Doll costumes. Reed also loved to cook. The big Batiste family had a sort of Carnival clubhouse on Orleans Avenue near ...