Doll-A-Day 2023 #130: Sears Old Fashioned Family, formerly known as Modern Old Timey Caco Family

     Okay look. I have seen these dolls listed as Caco a million times. I've even seen them on a site by a supposed Caco expert, who says they are Caco dolls. But I have found them, with their original box, on line, and they are definitely the Old Fashioned Family sold by Sears, and made in Taiwan. (It says that on the box too.) Their pictures are right there on the box! Google it for yourself: Sears Old Fashioned Family dolls.  You'll see. If it wasn't for the Made in Taiwan, I'd say that they were Caco, being sold by Sears. By I thought all Caco dolls were made in Germany. Here. Look at the box, with the picture of them apparently doing calisthenics.

 

Lots of things got done today. One of them was photographing this family of dollhouse dolls I spotted in the storage yesterday. They're Caco dolls.

You may have seen my Caco dolls in my dollhouse, Kay, Jeffrey, and Moe. They're all Caco. But they are a different era of Caco dolls, and have different sculpts than these dolls. I think this family was made in the 1960's. In spite of their origin being the groovy 60's, this family seems stuck in a fashion no man's land.  Mom and daughter wear what looks like 1800's dresses, but have 50's or 60's hair styles.

Mind you, 'granny dresses', or 'maxi dresses' were a thing in the late 60's and early 70's too.

Mom sure has some shoes that leave you scratching your head too. What era is this woman supposed to be from?

I have seen this same family with the mom and daughter dressed in dresses more the length that would be expected from the 60's. And the son also came with long pants.

Her dress has dragonflies on it!

This version of the Caco dolls has plastic hands and feet. The earliest Caco dolls had lead hands and feet.

  Their egs aren't thread wrapped, like Kay and Jeffrey's. Their more like bandage wrapped!

  Dad, who is giving me some real Conan O'Brien vibes here, is the standard male doll house doll size, at about 6 inches tall.

  While Mom and Daughter are living in a time blip, Dad seems trapped in the 60's. Check out his shirt and tie.

Coordinating dragonflies! And what a groovy belt!

Dad;s collar is actually attached to his neck, and not his shirt. When I started to photograph

these dolls, his head was scooted up, and since his caller went with it, it kind of loooked like his head was floating above his body.

 

  Dad has some cruel shoes.

 

  And then there's Junior.

 

As you can see, his arms are bandage wrapped too.

He isn't dressed exactly 1960's. Don't let that Pee Wee Herman bow tie fool you either. This kid looks like he got lost in the 1940's.

Except for one thing. I know those looks like shorts from the front, but a quick peek at the back will show that there is no middle seam in the back. That was just for looks. Those aren't shorts...they're a skirt! (It's a skirt?)

Now that's some lazy dollmaking.

Here's a good picture showing what's underneath the mummy wrapping.

Look at his plastic ankle socks.

  Caco dolls are made in Germany. Dad is, as I said, about 6 inches tall, with everybody else being smaller, and in scale with him.

  While I was taking these pictures, Junior Caco made a nose dive off the railing and fell to the apartment below. I had to go all the way down there to retrieve the little ******!

  Those are today' dolls. See you again tomorrow.