While shopping with Jane and Michael (‘Christmas Shopping’), she examines herself in the shop windows: Whenever she has a new item of clothing-a new hat, or new shoes, or a fresh pair of gloves-she can be found checking her reflection in any available surface.
Mary Poppins is particular about her attire. The library also holds a parrot-headed umbrella donated by Travers, a version of which is among Mary Poppins’ most recognisable accessories.) (In later years, Travers presented the doll to the New York Public Library. In fact, Travers provided her illustrator, Mary Shepard, with a model doll on which to base the drawings. It’s no accident that she is described by Jane Banks, the eldest of Mary Poppins’ nursery charges, as looking ‘rather like a wooden Dutch doll’. Mary Poppins is a thin person with ‘shiny black hair’, ‘large feet and hands, and small, rather peering blue eyes’.
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