Doll-A-Day 2019 #331: Pansy

  Today's doll is this pretty girl.

This is a doll I bought Ivy because I liked her.
 

She's named Pansy. Pansy also came as a blonde,a red head, and an African American.
 

She was made by Daisy Kingdom.

She's marked 1991,but Ivy wasn't even born until 1999,and we bought Pansy new. It's just the copyright date.

She's 18 inches tall.

She looks very vintage. That's what I like about her.
 

She is kind of a hard plastic lump though. She's jointed at the neck,shoulders, and hips,but she's all vinyl. She is a bit stiff and not very cuddly.Still,that's what dolls were like for years and kids still loved them.
 

Her hair looks 'marcelled',a popular style of the 1920's.
 

Her head leans forward a bit,making it hard to get a good shot of her face from a distance.

 

Pansy came in a white cotton onesie with pink ribbons. I didn't find that yet! Daisy Kingdom  also produced a lot of clothes for the doll, as well as printed fabric to make more doll clothes. This lavender dress is printed with paper dolls and their clothes.

It's all in one piece, but made to look like there is a yellow and white gingham under skirt.

It has an attached purse.

And it came with a matching headband.

That head band is heavy duty though! It's super thick for her little head. I suppose it's worth it though, because,unlike most doll head bands,it stays on.
 

There is also a sailor dress, which I had to buy because I LOVE sailor dresses!

The pink dress has an attached tulle apron with flower petals floating around inside it.

 There is a slip too, but because of the neckline of the sailor dress and the lavender paper doll dress,the slip could only be used with the pink dress.

The contents of the slip are a little confusing.

Is it 100% cotton, or 100% nylon?

The other side of the tag makes more sense.

Daisy Kingdom dolls, doll clothes, and patterns were sold at Joann Fabrics. They may have been sold other places, but that's where we bought ours.The patterns are supposed to be by Simplicity for Daisy Kingdom,but the violets one we bought just says Daisy Kingdom, and the bunny pajamas and robe one just says Simplicity.

 

Designed by Donna Hrkman? I want to buy a vowel! 

  The smaller pieces of the patterns we bought got cut out, but I was daunted by the idea of sewing from a pattern. I still can't do it.  Ivy eventually took over the project, but never did it either. They're  still around though. Maybe someday one of us will make it! These days Ivy works at the theatre department of her college,where she sews, and even designs, costumes. She recently designed and made some costumes for their production of the Sleeping Beauty ballet.

This is one Ivy designed and sewed for one of the fairies in the ballet.

  That's today's doll. Tomorrow we'll look at another one.