Doll-A-Day 300: Clone Wars Week: Skipper Saturday: Skipper Clone Fashions

  Today's Skipper Saturday is a continuation of Clone Wars Week. We're looking at fashions made for Skipper clone dolls that are direct copies---.rip offs if you prefer---of actual Skipper fashions.
  Our first fashion is a copy of the very first fashion produced for Skipper.The Skipper fashion is Red Sensation, from 1964.

Copy on the left, Skipper Red Sensation on the right. The imitator is a bit shorter than the original.

The copy is a very close replica. Notice there is no pocket on the imitator though.

I have also seen the exact same dress in dark pink.The dark pink one belongs to Tressy's sister Cricket.

The real Red Sensation is made of a much softer, thinner fabric than the copy, which is made of a heavy cotton.

The copy has a Made in Hong Kong label inside.

  Another early Skipper fashion is Flower Girl, from 1964-65.

Again, copy on the left.The real Skipper Flower Girl on the right.

This copy has a much simpler layer of sheer fabric over the skirt.

The ribbon on the real Skipper fashion is much more in scale.

And again, the label reads Made in Hong Kong.

One of the most popular, and most common early Skipper fashions is Silk 'n Fancy, from 1964.

We saw a copy of this fashion on our Skipper clone last Saturday. This is a more mint example of the same dress, but for some reason, this one is actually too tight to snap the second snap on the back of the dress.

Notice that, like the other two copies, this one is just a little shorter than a real Skipper dress.

The satin on the skirt is not quite up to the quality of the real Silk n Fancy, and there's no sewn in lace slip.

The Made in Hong Kong label on this dress matches the label on the Flower Girl copy. Maybe they were made by the same company.

  Last is this pair of pairs of pajamas that copy Skipper's Dreamtime PJs, one in white and one in blue.

The white ones are very close to the real Dreamtime pajamas, which were available from 1964 to 1966.

The dots are pink, but lighter than the dots on the copy.

There is no label in these, so who knows where they were made. But I'm betting it was Hong Kong.

The blue ones are obviously the same pattern, but missing the horizontal lace across the bodice.

 Most likely these clone outfits were made for Miss Kitty by Cragstan, as her fashions were directly copied from Skipper's.
That concludes Clone Wars Week. See you tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 163: Skipper Saturday:Funtime Skipper

  Today's Skipper Saturday doll is the European Funtime Skipper.

She has bend legs and a twist and turn waist.She was available in 1974.

When I saw her at an auction I thought she was Partytime Skipper from 1976-79. Partytime is also a European Skipper that looks like a Malibu Skipper with pale skin and pale blonde hair. The big difference is that Partytime's legs don't bend.

She was wearing something else when I got her, but another of the Skippers I got at that auction was wearing Funtime's yellow two piece bathing suit.The presence of the bathing suit was another tip off that this doll was Funtime Skipper.

She's wearing her original bathing suit, and Skipper's Flower Girl Get Ups 'n Go dress from 1978.

Mattel had already made a Skipper fashion called Flower Girl, but what else are you going to call a Flower Girl outfit?

This Flower Girl consists of this dress, a matching bonnet,a bouquet, and yellow flats.

This outfit is actually considered to be rare.

The bright blue eyes stand out better on this pale doll than Malibu Skipper.It doesn't help that Malibu also has lots more black eye makeup!

I like this girl way better than the weirdly tan Malibu Skippers.

Although she does have the same stiff, course hair as Malibu Skipper.

I've never been a fan of tans anyway. As a red haired person, I tend to be naturally pale, and I like being pale,or as a pale friend of mine used to say, "maintaining my perfect fish belly complexion". My mother never really realized she was raising a red haired kid, (She had brown hair.), and always complained that I was "pasty pale". She could never understand that I don't mind being pale. (I actually tan. I just don't want to.) Anyway,I'm not as 'pasty' as I could have been, considering the red hair thing. I'm pink really.

 Maybe this doll is just Malibu Skipper after she wised up to the tanning/skin cancer thing.

See you tomorrow with another doll.

Doll-A-Day 148: Straight Leg Skooter

  June is known as the month for weddings, so this month we'll be having a look at some wedding outfits. Today's doll is Skipper's friend Skooter in Skipper's fashion Flower Girl, from 1964-65.

This is a straight leg Skooter, with tan skin and titian hair.

You'll have to pardon the purple pony tailers. I need to replace her ribbons. I was in a bit of a hurry today. I'm going to the flea market with my friend Lori tomorrow, which will mean alot of walking,so I was trying not to spend too much time on my aggravated, cheese injured toe, or use the elbow that was excruciatingly painful this morning.

Flower Girl consists of the dress, white gloves, white anklets,bouquet,white flats, and flowered head piece.

The outfit coordinates with Barbie's Orange Blossom. Since Orange Blossom is the bridesmaid dress, it;s usually associated with Midge more than Barbie.That's one of the reasons I like to see Flower Girl on a Skooter, since she is sort of Midge's counter part, like Skipper is Barbie's. (It's like one of those story problems from school: "Skooter is to Midge as Skipper is to...?")

The dress from Flower Girl was copied in pink and called Party Pink. It was one of Skipper's Pak fashions.

I've gone over the history of Skooter in previous posts, so I won't go over it again. She was Skipper's first friend, produced only from 1965 to 1967. Even with such a short run, Skooters are plentiful, easy to find, and not usually very expensive.

This is a Skooter you might have seen before, if you saw my post from when I bought her at a doll show. It was the same day I bought another Skooter, along with a Tutti and two Skipper dolls, from the lady who, along with her sister, had owned them as a child. This is the Skooter with the turned up toes on her left foot, which I paid $6 for. (That post was last October.)

The curled toes make it hard for her to keep her shoe on.

We haven't seen The One Hair for a while. This is The Return of The One Hair!

Tomorrow is Skipper Saturday. See you then.