Doll-A-Day 2023 #220: Ginny

  Today's doll is the 1986 version of the Ginny doll.

She's a 'dress me' doll, meaning she comes in her underwear. There seems to be another thing about her that they really wanted you to know, in case you hadn't noticed.

The back of her box explains that she's not a baby, or a lady: she's a little girl.

As her box says, she's an 8 inch doll, made by Voguem which was a division of Dakin at the time.

Hard to tell through the dusty and reflective plastic on her box, but she has a gold Vogue tag on her wrist.

She comes with a comb, a two part stand...

...and a brush.

She has the same face sculpt as all the Ginny's of the 80's. It was a return to the old style Ginny face, after the 70's had changed to a more modern and slightly more realistic face.

She has sleep eyes with hard plastic lashes.

Her undies are a two piece satin set of teddy and long pantaloons.

She has a magnificent head of curly hair.

Sorry bout the annoying sticker residue.

  That's all for today. See you again tomorrow. By the way, Ginny is looking for a new home. If anybody is interested, please leave a comment with your contact information.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #89: Vogue Baby Dear One?

   I'm not positive about the name of today's doll, so maybe someone can help me. Leave a comment if you have any information. as far as I can find out, this doll is called Baby Dear One.

This big baby measures about 25 inches tall.

  She's made by Vogue, and marked 1965. 

As you can see, she has sculpted hair under her rooted hair.

I'm pretty sure that's a copyright on the sculpt or the name...or something, because research shows that she was made after 1972, because she has a crier box. The dolls were produced starting in 1965, (and brought back between 1967 and 1980.), but the crier box was added in 1972. What's confusing though, is that the tag on her outfit says 'Cutest One'...I think.

Looks more like '8est one' or 'Butest One'.

  And I am pretty sure this is her original outfit, although I haven't been able to find a Vogue doll online wearing this outfit. It's a dress and matching bloomers.

   The dress has a big collar, with lace and a bow. 

She has brown sleep eyes with brush lashes.

I'm not sure if they were always this way, but her eyelids are more tan than her face.

She has a scratch on her nose, but I think she's in pretty good shape for her age.

  This doll was rescued from a box brought from the very wet room. She had started to grow mildew on her body, but she was still wet, so I was able to wash her, (in a pillow case), in the washing machine, and it's all gone.  I dried her in the machine too, which resulted in some very crazy hair. I wasn't sure it was rescue-able. but I re-wet her hair and conditioned and combed it, and it turned out fine. Not as curly as it was I think, but soft and comb-able, and human looking again!

 

 Unfortunately, her body got wet again, and even though I dried her in front of a fan, she dried slowly enough that her body got a faint brown water circle. 

  Her trip through the wash also split the seam in her crotch, so I sewed that up.

  Her eyes could probably stand to be wiped out again. The one on her right especially looks a little grubby.

 She has chubby baby toes.

And her hands are very expressive in a baby way.

She has a few black spots that I can't seem to clean off. I should have tried the Magic Eraser. Emma swears by it.

The right hand is doing the 'and let me mention one more thing...'.

  She is a chubby babe. Her body is stuffed, and shaped with a foam form.

  Her head, arms, and legs are vinyl, but that body makes her very squashy and huggable.

  This baby has been packed off to storage, but I'm not keeping her. She was another of those auction extras, in a box of stuff I bought for something else. So if anybody wants her, let me know. I'm glad I was able to rescue her before she was ruined, because I would hate that. But she's not a doll that interests me. I feel compelled to rescue anything rescuable. It may stem from being raised by parents who grew up during the depression. You didn't waste anything. Although my mom was worse about that than my dad, and she threw away my toys all the time. Mom repaired things and made do. Dad's family had a bit more money during the depression because his dad drew a pension. They even had a hired girl to help out around the house. So Dad was always the 'throw that out and get a new one' kind of person. But he didn't throw my stuff out. I went to live with Dad when I was 12, and he threw one thing of mine out: my Roadrunner lunch box. I didn't use it any more by the time he threw it out, but I wanted to keep it. I threw such a fit that he never threw anything of mine out ever again!  

  Anyway, if anyone has fallen in love with this girl and must have her, she is $25 plus shipping. Leave a comment with your contact information if you're interested. I'll see you again tomorrow with a doll that isn't for sale!

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!