Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Doll-A-Day 2017 #339: Love n Touch Baby

  Ok! Today we are finally getting to that 'wintery' doll. When I think of the best things about winter, one of them is the memories of what I always called 'cosying down' with the kids. I always loved the winter evenings when the kids were little. Everybody, fresh from warm baths and in cozy pajamas,would snuggle in my bed and read or watch a movie. Ken worked most nights when Emma and Fuzzy were very small,so it was just them and me most of the time. It was even nicer when Ken could join us. And that was my favourite thing ever: to be all snuggled and cozy with my loved ones while it snowed and stormed outside. It's always cold in our house in the winter,so 'cozying down' was self preservation too! Share the warmth! So winter brings to mind warm pajamas and snuggling.  Now don't say today's doll is not wintery!


She looks all cozy in her hooded footies,so that's wintery to me!


She's Love n Touch Baby.


If she's 'Love n Touch' shouldn't it be 'LT'?

She looks a lot like Thumbelina,but she was made by Mattel,not Ideal, in 1979.




She measures 12" long.


She has a pretty full head of hair for a baby.



Her cozy yellow and white hooded PJs have a pull string in the hood,something not allowed in children's clothes these days.


 


They also have feet, and a 'trap door' in the bottom.



 It's a trap!
When I was really small my favourite clothes were a pair of striped engineer overalls that zipped up the front,and a pair of red corduroy overalls that had a 'trap door'. It was useful in a cold house, because you didn't have to take off your complete coveralls, but but was hard to use!
Her PJs are removable.

She has a soft, stuffed,cloth body.The upper portions of her legs have no stuffing,making her legs floppy. Her feet are more like booties,with no definable toes.
She has a soft rubbery face and hands.


Unsentimental Niece had one of these when she was little. Around her house they didn't call this doll Love n Touch. They had a special name for her, based on her 'special attribute'.


As I mentioned, Love N Touch has a soft rubbery face and hands. But she also has one other soft, rubbery area...


Which is how Unsentimental Niece's doll got her nickname...


... "Naked Butt Baby".
Not quite sure why the doll was made with this feature. It certainly makes her memorable though.But wait, you say, I thought she had a cloth body. Well, she does.

 

Most dolls have a bottom of some kind. The weird part of Love N Touch is that she doesn't have a rubber body. She just has a rubber butt!


Now you know what the trap door is for. It's to showcase her special feature.



It's way too cold for all this nudity! Let's get cozy again!
 
That's more like it!
Love n Touch had a 'sequel' of sorts in Love n Touch Real Sister, a 15" doll with a similar face and a big head of blonde hair,who looked more like a toddler or maybe a 4 year old.
  Tomorrow we'll continue to cozy down and try to stay warm. See you then.

20 comments:

  1. LOL, you've heard the phrase "smoother than a baby's bottom," right? This doll is super cute.

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    1. Ha! Why that one didn't occur to me while I was doing this post i'll never know!

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    1. I don't think I have her anymore. Your number didn't show until I published the other comment,so I removed it.I've included this comment in case someone else has one to sell. If you'd like it included with an email or other contact method you can send another comment with the information you'd like published.

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    1. Is she available. And how much I had her as a child but our house burned daowm

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    2. Sorry, She is long gone. If I had a dozen I could have sold them all. Try Ebay or Etsy.

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  5. I had this doll when I was young. It was given to me for christmas. I do remember her little rubber butt & yes it was a STRANGE feature. She seemed very small to me even then but I loved her. My mother got mad at me one day & when I was at school got rid of all my things. Im 49 years old & to this day she still wont tell me what she did with all my childhood things. I still think about it quite often & it makes me cry.

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  6. I have a similar story. I got this doll in 1979. I was 9. I named her Jessica. I would love to replace her. I came home from school one day at 12, and my Mom had given my dolls away to her friend's younger daughters. I still haven't gotten over it. I am 50! I dream that I find my dolls.

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    1. I somehow never replied to the comment above, so to both of you, I feel so bad for you. I came home from school one day to find my mom's cousin's kid jumping up and down on the flimsy play hat box that contained my plastic dishes! Somehow they survived, because I still have them. That same day my mom gave her cousin a bunch of my outgrown clothes, and the tin dollhouse belonging to my sister and me. That is what the cousin was there for. At the time, I didn't mourn the loss of my old clothes, many of which my mom made. NOW I would like to have had them. What annoyed me at the time, was the loss of our dollhouse. I didn't WANT to give it away. My mom had offered it though, and like she would never have told my cousin's kid to to jump on my dishes, she would never have said, "Tam wants to keep the dollhouse, so I guess she can't have it." There was a massive lack of respect for anything I had to say, even about my own things. Whenever a kid would visit, Mom would send them to our rooms to play, whether we were home or not. I would never have done that to my kids, like I would never have given away their things.

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    2. This was my favorite doll, I was born in 1979, and my name is Jessica. lol

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  7. I have one still -- she was my very favorite baby <3 I got her before I could read cursive and I thought it said "TJ" on the jammies so that was what I named her. My mother made a custom knit bunting for her at the next Christmas. My little one now plays with her!

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    1. AW. That's sweet. How nice that you've passed her down.

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  8. I love babies in their warm cozy jammies too. I used to love snuggling my son in his fuzzy footed pajamas.

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    1. And kids are so cute in footies. I wore them when I was little, and my kids wore them too.

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    1. No, sorry. I wish I had more, because you're the 4th person to ask!

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