Doll-A-Day 2017 # 54: La Dee Da Dee as Dots of Style

  Today's doll is Dee,one of the La Dee Da dolls.

Original dress and replaced shoes.

She's Dee as Dots of Style Dee.

Or is it?! From what I can tell, my doll has the dress and eyes of that doll, but not the hair,(There should be some purple hair on top and orange hair around the bottom.), or sparkly paint around her left eye. Any ideas anybody?

She's from the Sweet Party series.

You can see my other La Dee Da doll HERE.

And you can visit the La Dee Da home page HERE.

I like the look of some of the La Dee Da dolls, and I like a lot of the clothes and accessories that fit their theme.

 La Dee Da's have nice faces, with big eyes.

 I have seen some beautiful repaints.Now that I have a spare doll,(a less complete double of the doll I gave the link to above.),I may try repainting her.

My biggest complaint with the La Dee Da dolls is that they are head heavy and weak limbed.

Dee had a hard time supporting herself in a sitting position,even with her arms to prop her up.

There's no way her tiny feet and weak knees joints will allow her to stand up on her own.

Her arms can't move in any interesting way.They are strictly up and down arms,without even an interesting turn of her hands or a bent elbow.

Do the limbs start out this loose, or do they become that way with play?I've never had a La Dee Da straight out of the box, so I don't know.

Check in tomorrow to see what the doll of the day is.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #31:Japanese Pose Doll

 Today's doll is this Japanese Pose doll.

Here she sits amidst my amaryllis',that are wintering inside, and my peace lily,which our cat, Mow, keeps eating.Don''t worry. Amaryllis are toxic to cats, but they were cut down to the bulbs before we brought them inside for the winter,so Mow ignores them.

I never knew what these dolls were called until about a year ago,even though I've seen them all my life.

I was born in 1962, and these dolls were everywhere in the 60's and early 70's.

They were characterized by their big eyes and sweet stockingette faces,and their wired stockingette bodies.

I own a couple of Pose Dolls from my childhood. One,which this girl reminds me of, came snapped,(with actual snaps.), to the top of a jewelry box.This particular girl was found at a thrift store.

She's about 6" tall, in her sitting position.

From the back of her head you might start to think that she has been reclothed at some point...

...except for the little paper tag on her skirt.

These dolls sort of have a cult following these days.

There were so many of them sold that they can still be found fairly frequently at yard sales and thrift stores, and at pretty good prices.They'll cost you more on auction sites though.

  Tomorrow is another doll.See you then!

Doll-A-Day 38: More Susie Slickers, Maudlynne Macabre, and J Doll Diamante La Calle

  We're wrapping up Big Eye week, or Sad Eyes week, whatever you want to call it, today. Tomorrow is another Skipper Saturday, so please come back for that.
  Today I we're going to look at more Susie Sad Eyes/Slicker dolls, and then at a couple of the modern versions of 'Big Eye' type dolls.
  I got these Susie dolls in a box lot at an auction recently.

I felt pretty lucky to get them as cheaply as I did, considering how expensive they can be these days. The pink raincoat is the thicker, stiffer kind like my childhood Susie came in.

Unfortunately this girl is missing her hat, but she does have her tights and boots.(They came with no clothes under the raincoat,which is unfortunate if you want to take her coat off.)I have an extra pink raincoat I put on the black haired doll. It's so stiff she can hardly be made to put her arms down. She's like Randy from "A Christmas Story"!

Raincoat Girl also has the reddish complexion my purple coated Susie has. (Replacement Susie #2.)She and the pale black haired girl have the dreaded green ring thing under their eyes.It seems to be actually painted that way. Thank goodness all Susie's weren't!

Black Haired Girl is more like I remember my original Susie. She's a better quality vinyl, with softish arms and a pale complexion.Her head is a softer vinyl than pink raincoat girl, and they have different manufacturer markings, even though they are obviously made from the same mold.Both of them are a better molding job than my Sad Eyes doll, with her untrimmed fingers.

  It seems like on the tail end of Susie's production, some of the left over heads were used on cheap 'dress me ' type doll bodies like you used to be able to buy in the craft aisle.Like this one I got from yard sale lady Donna this past summer,

The kind with the solid bodies and moveable arms only.

I know they came that way, because I got one in the package that way from Salvation Army a few years ago. (I probably shouldn't have, but I opened her and removed her head for rebodying.)

I've also seen them online on the Dress Me bodies in plastic packages. Somebody was tying to sell one for $200!(Although I kind of doubt they got $200.)
The third girl is on the 'Dress Me' type body. Her head is just about the most unattractive I have ever seen on a Sad Eyes doll like these.She was obviously made VERY cheaply, with crappy vinyl.But still, same head mold.

She looks way better in this close up than in real life!

There is an orange haired Susie Slicker I don't have that I'd love to.Maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to come across one, because I'm definately not paying the prices they are getting online.

Moving on to the modern "Big Eye' types,here is Maudlynne Macabre.

Maudlynne is made by the Tonner company. She shares the same body as Little Mismatched,so she can wear LMM's clothes.But her head is all Big Eye.

She's a bit Goth, but not overly so. She still has a pink complexion and a little girl look. No drastic make-up.

You may remember seeing Maudlynne in my after Christmas post. Ken got her for me for Christmas, after I left the Tonner page up on the computer and kept reminding him that the sale was about to end...

Maudlynne is poseable, as you can see.It would be great if she had jointed ankles and wrists. She could be put in so many more cute poses. Also, her legs could do with being more poseable from the hips.That first picture, the standing pose with the crossed feet, requires her to have something to lean against so she doesn't fall over. If her ankles were jointed and her legs moved out from the hips that wouldn't be necessary.

I also recently bought a Diamante La Calle J Doll by Jun Planning. I haven't opened her because I'm still hoping to get to exchange her for a less depressing looking J Doll, preferably with red hair.

Diamante is a little too dead looking, even for me.

 I also would have liked a slightly taller doll (This girl is only 9" tall.), with more articulation. From what I hear, this series isn't as jointed as they could be.

But both these girls are examples of the 'Big Eye' dolls around today. Big Eye dolls didn't go away.They just got more expensive!

I do have my Leptospermum, but one of these days I hope to get a larger ball jointed doll like a Volks or something.I'll have to wait until one shows up at a yard sale though. (Too expensive.) But I'm not holding my breath. (Then I'd look like my J doll...)