Doll-A-Day 2023 #79: Ginny, Ginny Little One

   Okay, I could say, Ginny Ginny, dreams are ten a penny, but what I really want to do is sing the Little Richard song Jenny Jenny! (Whooooo!! Jenny Jenny!) But since you can't hear me anyway, (and lucky for you, you can't!), I'll just say that today's doll is Ginny times two: two versions of Vogue's Ginny doll. Neither of them is the original Ginny, which was first produced in 1948. What we have here is a 1970's Ginny, which veered from the familiar face of the Ginny's before her, for a more modern look.

And her friend, a 1980's Ginny, Little One, which returned to the more familiar form.

 

   The ads for the 70's Ginny didn't do her any favours. It's a very unflattering picture.

The 70's Ginny dolls tend to be made of inferior stuff, with their hair often found crispy and thin.

But they do have bendable rubber legs.

And cute little childish pot bellies

Older Ginny dolls sometimes had jointed knees, or a walking feature. Little One just has straight, solid legs.

  They both have sleep eyes.

Sorry about 70's girl's nudity, but she was this way when I got her, and incidentally I have no idea where that was. She's more embarrassed that I have posted her picture with her face this dirty.

How could you?

And as for the nudity, Little One more than makes up for it with this over the top dress!

She's in much nicer condition than 70's girl, although she is missing a shoe, and has a stain on the back of her tights. 

She does have her tag though!

 

    Along with these two there was a packaged Ginny outfit for 70's girl. 

 

 I definitely want to get rid of the dolls, (anybody want them?), but I'm debating on keeping the outfit for Tammy World. It is just the kind of thing she'd wear, and she is here without her wardrobe, after all. I'm just thinking it might be a bit big for her, considering she has appropriated a Hogwarts Heroes  Hermione jointed body.

I know the socks and the shoes would be too big for her.

  I have seen these outfits before, but I didn't realize they have a pattern to make your own Ginny outfit on the back of the package.

You aren't really designing them if you're using their pattern, are you? Surely not.

  Those are today's doll. We might or might not return to a single doll post tomorrow, depending on my mood!

Yard Sale Find: Vogue Ginny or Not?

    It was a dark day today, so these pictures aren't my best. But I mentioned recently that I have made some good yard sale finds. Well here's one of them.

  This little doll. She's about 8" tall, and she's what's known as a 'walker'. When her legs are moved back and forth in a walking motion her head turns from side to side. She works well.
  I'm hoping somebody out there can help me with a positive identification on this girl. She looks like a Ginny, but is she a  real Ginny, or one of the many Ginny wanna be dolls? Before you suggest it, I can't check the back of her head because the wig she's wearing is glued down too far to see the back of her head. (That's another question: Is this wig her original?)

 No markings on her back either.

Pardon the nudity, but it's not gratuitous. I'm hoping someone can identify her by her body mold.

 Her fingers are a bit distinctive.
 
She has dark blue sleep eyes with hard, molded lashes.

 She needs her lips retouched.
She's wearing a tagged Vogue outfit, which is a Ginny outfit. Update: The outfit is a Ginny outfit from 1956, called Gym Kids. The hat is part of it. I was only missing the pink socks and black shoes.

The outfit has such a cute shirt...

...and a matching pair of what we used to call 'pedal pushers'.

The shoes are obviously modern.

I couldn't get the shoes off.There are molded shoes on her feet,so she's not a Ginny.
My favourite part of the outfit though is the hat! It's a cute little pink beanie with an elastic chin strap.

I got this doll at the same place where Emma and I made an awesome yard sale haul a few years ago. You may have read about it in one of my previous posts: HERE.
  Although I do love the outfit on this doll,I'm not much into Ginny dolls. What I really liked was the other thing in the box with her:

This Barbie patio set is from 1998. I have found  a chair and cushion before, but not the whole set. I'd never seen the table before.

  There was also a light up garden arch.

Unfortunately the arch is a weird scale. It's way too big for 1/12 scale, and, at about 10 inches tall, not quite tall enough for 1/6 scale.  If it weren't made with an attached base I could figure out a way to make it just that little bit taller. There was a Barbie sister Stacie bicycle too.
  So while I'll probably be getting rid of the doll, I'm keeping the furniture.