Doll-A-Day 2019 #306: So In Style Janessa

  Today's doll is another of Ivy's,in celebration of her birthday this month. It's this little girl.

She's So In Style Janessa,from 2009.

She came in a set with Trichelle.

You may have read here before that the So In Style dolls were favourites of Ivy's. She has a lot of them.

This is Janessa's original outfit.

The So In Style,(or,S.I.S.) kids used the Kelly head sculpt and the tall Kelly body.

  That's the doll for today. Tomorrow we'll see another of Ivy's dolls.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #248: So In Style Grace

  Well some of you may know that I attempt to grow tomatoes. So far this season I have gotten two,count 'em TWO. tomatoes from my garden! 

Poor tomato number two. By the time it got ripe it had a big nasty hole and I had to cut part of it away!

This is all I had left! But it was worth it!

They started very early,way back while it was still winter. By the time they got big enough to transfer, and it got warm enough to set them out,some of them had died. Once they were set out they grew very slowly. It has taken them all this time to have only two ripen so far! They were delicious, but as cold as it's been lately, I may not get any more before it's so cold they get a frost on them and die.
  Yesterday we saw So In Style Trichelle. Today we're seeing the other doll I got when I bought her. It's So In Style Grace.

I'm pretty sure this Grace is from the Rocawear series. Anybody?

She doesn't have any of her original clothes. When I got her she was wearing these leggings and Trichelle's shirt. 

So she is borrowing this Generation Girl shirt because Ivy hated all the other choices I had!

Grace also has jointed elbows and click bend knees, like Trichelle.

Her hair is a great,realistic mix of colours.

You can see my post on So In Style Kara HERE.

 I won't go into much detail on the So In Style dolls, because I have done that twice,(including yesterday),in my other two posts on the S.I.S dolls. I'll just let you enjoy the beauty of Grace.
 

Tomorrow we'll look at another doll. See you then.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #247: So In Style Trichelle

  Today's doll is one I got,not at the flea market on Saturday,but at Goodwill last week. She's this beautiful lady.

She's Trichelle,one of the So In Style,or S.I.S. dolls.

Her previous owner did something to her eyebrows. She's still beautiful though.  

The So In Style dolls originally consisted of Trichelle,Grace,Kara. You can see my post on Kara HERE.

The lone male,Darren, Marisa and Chandra were later additions.

The So In Style dolls were Ivy's favourite grown up dolls when she was a kid, (Her absolute favourites were Kelly and friends.),and Trichelle was her favourite So In Style doll.

She had quite a few S.I.S. dolls,most of them Trichelles,including this one.

You can see a commercial for the So In Style, or S.I.S. dolls HERE.

The So In Style dolls were the creation of Stacey McBride-Irby.

Stacey had designed Barbie dolls for Mattel for over ten years when she was given the opportunity to create her own doll line, which became the So In Style dolls,which premiered in 2009. She later created The Prettie Girls for the One World Doll Project. You can watch an interview with Stacey McBride-Irby HERE.
This Trichelle is from the Roca Wear series.

This is her original shirt and skirt.

Both Velcro in the back.

The skirt says 'Roca Wear' in the design.

There was also a line of little siblings for the So In Style girls.They had skinny,taller-than-Kelly bodies, pretty much like the current Chelsea dolls. There were little sisters,and a little brother named Julian.
 

The siblings were available individually and in sisters sets with the full size girls.

 Ivy had several of the siblings too,including cute little Julian,who was my favourite.
 

Ivy has this version of Julian.

 (A Julian doll is one of the 'stars' of Vanessa's ongoing story at Van's Doll Treasures.)

 Roca Wear Trichelle has jointed elbows and click bend knees.

She has great hair!

See you tomorrow for another doll. Trichelle's friend perhaps?

Doll-A-Day 229: So In Style Kara Plus a Reveiw of MiWorld Dairy Queen Treat Set Collector Pack

  Today's doll will be assisting me in my review of the MiWorld Dairy Queen Treat Set Collector Pack. She's So In Style Concert Kara.

I was looking for a doll to use for size comparison with the MiWorld set, and to use as Doll of the Day, so I wanted a doll in all her original garb, so she was recognizable. I waited until late tonight because I was watching tv with Ivy, so to help me out, Ivy grabbed one of her dolls that was easily accessible. Kara is who she came up with, and I thought she fit the criteria: all original clothes. Why, Ivy was even able to find her other shoe at the last minute. Then when I looked her up so I could say what series she's from, I find that she is, indeed, Concert Kara, but she's wearing Concert Trichelle's clothes and shoes! Oh well. At least the doll and shoes are both from the same series! (And knowing Ivy's room, who knows where poor Trichelle is!)

Trichelle's shoes with built in leg warmers. They're split up the back so they go on and off easily. 

  

  All the dolls in this series wore similar dresses in different colours. Kara's dress is gold or orange from what I can tell from photograph's, since Ivy has gone to bed and probably couldn't find it anyway.
  The So In Style dolls, or S.I.S. dolls were first produced in 2009 I believe. They were created by a lady named  Stacey McBride Irby. There were originally 3 dolls, Grace, Trichelle, and... Chandra? (Somebody help me here. There is precious little information out there about these dolls! I'm going from memory, as Ivy was obsessed with getting all these dolls in her oh so far away youth. (She's almost 15 now.) I remember there were 3 girls, and they later added another. I can't remember if the last addition was Kara or Chandra. They also later added little sisters, Courtney, Janessa, and Kianna,which used the long thin body of Barbie's current littlest sister, Chelsea. Eventually there was a little brother, (Not sure who's brother he was.), named Julian.There was even a guy named Darren. He didn't get is own head mold, as the girls did though. He borrowed Ken's friend Steven's head. I think we ended up with multiples of the older girls,(Ivy has a billion of them.), all the children, but somehow no Darren.

I never noticed, until I looked at these pictures, that Kara has a painted hairline on her forehead. My mom had a hairline like that and she hated it. I'm not sure if it makes Kara look more real or not, since the other hair is rooted. In a way it looks like her head is dirty.

Make your way over to the table Kara and see what we have for you.

Have a seat.

Her legs are q hard plastic that doesn't even bend. I see we put that shoe that was found at the last moment on a little, uh...badly.

So here's our review item for today. It's the MiWorld Dairy Queen accessory pack.

I love the MiWorld sets. They came with so much cool little stuff. I didn't buy one though, because it wasn't in the budget at the time. (When they were available around here.) They were in with the clearance stuff at our Walmart, but they weren't marked down, just discontinued. When I found out they were discontinued I was disappointed. It seemed like such a nice line, with so many play possibilities. But I found this accessory set, along with several others at Toys R Us last week. That was out of town, so maybe it's just around here that they aren't being carried.

 

Here's the set as it comes out of the package.

These were a pretty good deal at $2.99.

The drinks and desserts in the set come without labels...

...but you're provided with stickers so you can finish them up. I only put stickers on one side, even though you are supplied with two. that way the dolls can be at Dairy Queen, or somewhere else. It probably won't make much difference though, as you'll see from the pictures, that even though I only put the stickers on a few days ago, they are already coming off. I don't see them sticking through play.

Before...

...and after.

I tried to feel the stuff through the package to see what size it was. There seems to be some straying from scale with the MiWorld stuff.

As you can see from Kara's hands near them, some of the things are 1/6, or play scale, the perfect size for fashion dolls like the So In Style girls and Barbie.

The Orange Julius, the chocolate milk shake, and the Arctic Rush seem to be just right, but the Blizzard looks a little small. And the sundaes seem tiny. (Ivy says maybe they are children's cups!) Ok, we'll test that theory out.

I guess those sundaes look ok with Tammy. I'm sure she'd prefer them bigger though!

Tammy is trying to ignore that chocolate milkshake, but I know it's her favourite. (Actually, when I was a kid I always ordered a cherry snow cone.)

Eeny meeny miney...Oh forget it. Where's the chocolate milk shake?! I think the straws should have been white or something.The sticker is coming off that Blizzard, and I only just pressed them back down before I took the pictures.

How about the old Kelly dolls?

Are milk shakes and Orange Julius's really a third of the size of a toddler? Wow.

Here they are with a 1/12 scale (6" tall) dollhouse man, which is more the size the actual MiWorld sets are made for.

"What am I grabbing? I can't see through this giant collar."

   Most of the pieces look way too big for him, but the sundaes look pretty good. Maybe the Blizzard. (He got the Jumbo size...) So, conclusion? These are nice, fairly realistic looking goodies, but I think they work much better for 1/6 scale than the set they are actually meant for. They're a much cheaper alternative to the expensive Rement sets. (Which, granted, are absolutely awesome.) They're way more affordable than Rement for their target audience, which is children.
  Tomorrow we'll see another doll and another review.