Doll-A-Day 2019 #88: Twist N Turn Skipper

  Today's doll is this kid.

She's a Twist N Turn Skipper.

She has the twist and turn waist, and rooted eyelashes.

She has bend legs too.

The Twist N Turn Skippers are my favourites. I love the colourful faces and rooted eyelashes.

  When I got her the front of her hair had been braided. I took the tiny braids out, but I can't get rid of the crimp. I guess I should put her hair in some boiling water,but I kind of like the way it looks.

 

  She's wearing a Skipper fashion called Quick Changes,from 1968.

It also includes a dress with a zip up front,and knee socks with tassels. I don't have those...yet.

  I love the earlier clothes maybe even more than the Mod Era clothes, but the Mod Era clothes look better on the Mod Era dolls. (That's why i need all those Skippers! To wear all the clothes. Yeah,that's the reason...) I do like Quick Changes though.

Naturally, my favourite part of the outfit is the knee socks I don't have!

    That's all for today. Tomorrow is our last day with Ivy before she heads back to college on Sunday. But the next time she comes home, she here for the summer!

Doll-A-Day 212: Skipper Saturday: Brunette Twist and Turn Skipper

  Today is another Skipper Saturday and another of my favourite Skippers. The doll for today is this Twist and Turn Skipper.

She's one of my nicest Skipper's and when I got out her for her photo shoot I found that her arms have gone pale and her face is starting to yellow! Ah!

She's still beautiful. I have taken her off display to see if keeping her out of the light will stop the fading.

It's such a shame because she has all of her eyelashes and hair,with no haircut.Her face paint is perfect too.

Around here school has started up again already.Skipper's wearing School's Cool, from 1969/70.

School's Cool consists of the flowered dress,orange tights, hot pink ankle boots,and...a telephone? That wouldn't surprise me these days, but nobody took a phone to school back then. (For one thing,it wouldn't have worked unplugged from the wall.)

She has a Big Chief tablet, just like the ones I used when I was a kid. I hate that the pencil is glued to it. I tried to make it look like she's holding the pencil too.

Blythe dolls can wear vintage Skipper clothes, and School's Cool seems to be popular with collectors for putting on their Blythes.

That's a real pocket. If she could bend her arm she could put her hand in it.

  Today was the local doll show here in town, which I totally forgot to mention for any local readers. I didn't do the show this year, but I went to check it out and do a bit of visiting with friends.I got the very pretty chair Skipper is using in her pictures, and a few other things I will show you in some upcoming posts.

 

   I love doll sized chairs. I have waaay too many. I need to start eliminating some, but they're all so cool. This isn't actually the only one I bought today.

Tomorrow starts a new theme week. It's all about boys this coming week. I also stopped at the thrift stores after dropping Ken off at work today and got an amazing deal.That will be another upcoming post.(Tease, tease.)

Doll-A-Day 53: Skipper Saturday: Twist and Turn Skipper

Today's doll is another Twist and Turn Skipper.

She's had a haircut, but I think it's really cute on her.

She has rooted eyelashes and the usual bend legs and twist and turn waist.

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She's wearing All Over Felt, minus the tights.

Without the tights, All Over Felt consists of a felt dress and jacket, with matching felt hat and purse, and blue shoes.

I have to get the right side of her hair to lay down again.

A variation All Over Felt was made in turquoise felt, rather than the usual light blue.

  For some reason almost all the blonde Twist and Turn Skippers I've managed to acquire have had haircuts. JUST the BLONDES. What is that about?