Doll-A-Day 2023 #47: Pos'n Pepper

   Today's doll is, again, borrowed from Emma. She's this little girl.

  She's Pos'n Pepper. (But she's wearing regular Pepper's dress.) You can see my Pos'n Pepper, who looks quite different, HERE, and HERE.

  Tammy's sister Pepper was produced from 1963 to 1965. She was the longest produced member of the Tammy line, other than Tammy herself. Pepper was originally produced as a straight leg doll. Pos'n Pepper, with her bendy legs and arms, was made in 1964.

Pos'n Pepper was 14 cents more than Basic Pepper.

Pos'n Pepper had two companions, her brother, Pos'n Pete, and her friend, Pos'n Salty. As with Tammy's brother and boyfriend, Pepper's brother and friend shared the same head sculpt, and are almost impossible to tell apart. Their clothes are the only clues. (What was up with Ideal? Your boyfriend looks just like your brother? Freud would have had a field day with that one.)  For some reason, and it's not just the hair, Pepper is bigger than Pete an Salty. (You can see my Salty HERE.)

   Pos'n Pepper's arms are like the standard rubbery Tammy arms, except that she has wires inside them so they can bend. They're still hard to bend though. 

They can move up and down too, except they move in unison.

Her legs are much easier to bend than her arms.

And they don't have to move in unison to move back and forth.

  Like regular Pepper, Pos'n Pepper has side glance eyes.

So she always looks a little suspicious.

Or like she's listening for something.

But straight on she has the faint hint of a smile.

And like regular Pepper, she has those cute freckles.

I think freckles are cute on dolls, but I was always glad I don't actually have any myself.

While regular Pepper came in various hair colours, I'm pretty sure Pos'n Pepper only came in shades of brown. Mine has a sort of light brown colour, while this one is sort of a medium brown. Here she is compared with the strawberry blonde Pepper I showed you recently.

Look at the difference in their eyebrows. I think one thing that makes this Pos'n Pepper look so suspicious is that her eyebrows are narrow on the inner part, and thick on the outside edges. Why would they paint them like that? It's like they're over the wrong eyes and should be switched.

 

    It makes her look a little angry.

  That's today's doll. See you tomorrow for another doll.