Lili Paschalidou-Theodoridou

[1] Paschalidou was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1911 and she was the daughter of Constantine Paschalidis, a businessman, and Despina Pappa,[1] a doll maker.

Lili, as a student of the Zappeion Girl' s School of Constantinople, is early in an imposing environment with important works of art available for the immediate and continuous cultivation of her aesthetics.

The new workshop was also in Nea Smyrni, Athens, and employed two more women, refugees from Asia Minor, one of whom was Lili' s mother's former colleague.

Lili Paschalidou-Theodoridou standardizes two doll sizes and makes the lower part of their legs lead with pencil so that they stand better.

She finally reproduces 36 authentic traditional costumes in miniature, women's and men's, from various regions of Greece with which she dresses her handmade dolls.