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 #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!

Some Recent Goodwill Hauls and a Bad Back

  I still have one doll to show you from the first doll show in August, and one to show you from the second doll show in August. I don't have either of those photographed though, and my back has been out for the last couple of days, so that's not going to happen right now. 

  My back was sore and stiff, I think, from the hours of driving to see Ivy Sunday night, sleeping in the car, (because I'm not staying in a hotel during Covid), and then hours of driving back home Monday. We went on Sunday because it's such a long drive and if we used up Monday driving we'd miss time with Ivy, who also had work to do on Monday, and it would be super late when we drove back home. I figured if we got there Sunday evening/night, we'd have all Monday free. It worked out well, except for sleeping in the car. Someone in Ivy's dorm had had Covid recently, so we probably wouldn't have been allowed to stay in her room if we'd have wanted to. I was a bit stumpy Tuesday, and then Ken and I had Fun Day on Wednesday, which involved more driving, and a nice car picnic at an arboretum again. That totally finished me off though. Wednesday night there was a lot of screaming going on during my shower. The neighbours probably thought I was having a visit from Norman Bates.

  I spent yesterday resting, but should have rested laying down and letting my back relax. Instead, I sat up all day, and then there was more screaming at bathtime. I was hoping the warm water would help relax my back, but it just wasn't enough, I guess. I got smart and had Ken put some pressure on the painful places before we went to bed, and it did help unbelievably. I am still having pain, and I've been laying down and moving carefully when I do things. I think I'll probably be better tomorrow. Ken will be glad of that, because I haven't braved the stairs for a couple of days, so he's had to bring me food. (I didn't want to get stuck downstairs, unable to move. There's no working bathroom down there at the moment! (However, I did get a nice porcelain sink at a church sale this summer, and I've been waiting for the weather to cool down before braving renovating that tiny bathroom that only has a tiny window.) 

  Anyway, while I'm an invalid, I thought I'd go ahead and post some dolls that I found at a Goodwill a few weeks ago. There were several bags of dolls that day, and the prices were crazy. The bag I bought was only $1.99 though. It contained these.

  There weren't any dolls I was really interested in, but I got really excited when I saw what the girl on the right was wearing. 

They're a bit stretched out from being on her fat feet. (She has molded shoes already.)

  If you read the blog regularly, you'll know that my dolls are notoriously low on shoes. I was excited about these shoes, because they are Betsy McCall shoes! I have two Betsys, the Tiny kind. Not the 11 1/2 inch one like I showed you the other day.

She was an amazing yard sale find, even if she is missing half a leg . You can see her post HERE, and read my Yard Sale Tale.

One dollar at the flea market! You an see her post HERE.

  I actually have a white pair, and a black pair of Betsy shoes, but no red ones, and someday I hope to get that red plaid dress for her.

  The dolls included a Native American Dress Me type girl.

There was a Ginny wanna be. 

  I'm pretty sure she's not a real Ginny. To tell you the truth, I got so excited about the shoes I forgot to look! She looks cheaper than a Ginny though. She's probably a Virga or something.

  Then there is the girl who was wearing the red shoes.

She's a Hollywood doll...

... like the compo (possible) Alice I showed you recently.

  She has kind of an interesting face.

  I suppose if she were wearing a cute dress she'd be kind of cute. Does anybody know who she is? 

  She has some personality.

And a strange little belly scar. Maybe she's had a Caesarean.

   Aside from the shoes, there was also a brush. (Maybe it's a back scrubber brush?")

Does anybody recognize the brush?

  Another Goodwill recently yielded this chair and this mini American Girl doll.

  It's Felicity. She's very yellowed. 

She doesn't smell like cigarettes, so I don't think it's nicotine. Has anybody had one of these dolls that yellowed.? Do they just do that?

  So now I'm off to rest my poor back muscles, See you soon.