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Advocate photo by SOPHIA GERMER -- Joell Lee, Lauren Blouin and Dianne Honore make their Baby Doll costumes over coffee at Cafe Rose Nicaud in New Orleans, Saturday February 6, 2016. The new Baby Doll ...

NEW ORLEANS — The “baby dolls,” an on-again, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans' African-American community, are on again. The troupes of women strutting and prancing in bonnets, garters, ...

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, off-again ...

If a city can be said to have an art form, then New Orleans is certainly the mistress of transformation. We turn laundry day into “red beans and rice Monday,” give old bread new life as sweet pain ...

Denise Trepagnier Murph grew up in the Seventh Ward, surrounded by neighbors who masked as Mardi Gras Indians in tribes including the Yellow Pocahontas and Creole Osceolas. She learned to sew bead ...

The "baby dolls," an on-again, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans' African-American community, are on again. The troupes of women strutting and prancing in bonnets, garters, and skimpy or ...

NEW ORLEANS – The "baby dolls," an on-again, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans' African-American community, are on again. The troupes of women strutting and prancing in bonnets, garters ...

NEW ORLEANS — The "baby dolls," an on-again, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans' African American community, are on again. The troupes of women strutting and prancing in bonnets, garters, ...