Kippie = Kewpie Doll?

[GLL]

:>> "And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie
:>> clothes-wear everything but a corset ..."

: > Someone asked me about "kippie" and "school kept" in these Buster Keaton
: > quotes and I was baffled; I checked some sources and then even suspected
: > a mis-transcription. What's going on?

Maybe this is a little help, but "kippie" might be a regional pronounciation
of the Kewpie doll, or the comics <=1909 which inspired the dolls?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewpie_doll_(toy)

- GLL

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