Dolls' clothes day

[wiseheart]

I've been working on the trousers of the boy doll. They are a pair of striped dungerees, with a large breast pocket situated in the middle, with a sealing ship motif on it. I've finished the front of the trousers and cut out the back part. It's fairly finicky work, with lots of small details, but as I don't have a headline for it I can do it as

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[red_day_dawning]

I’ve been thinking about your dolls for ages. It was when you said one of your dolls looked more masculine than feminine and you wondered if girls would like that. My mum’s favorite doll when she was a child was a boy doll, with short blonde hair and blue eyes. She named him Heinzi. She tried to get me to play with him, but dolls always icked me (I found them creepy) and I didn’t like playing in the spider-infested shed that was designated the “playroom”. I liked soft toy animals, like teddy bears, so I might have liked soft, sewn dolls. Just a weird thought that has been percolating since you described the boy doll you made.

[wiseheart]

Oh, I have made my fair share of soft toys: teddy bears, cats, bunnies, etc. I just wanted to try something new. Animals are a lot easier, though.

[red_day_dawning]

Cute!

[wiseheart]

🐻 :)

[chocolate_frapp]

I've always been more of a stuffed animal person than a doll person myself.

[wiseheart]

Me, I always loved and adored dolls. We were horribly poor when I was a child, and Mum always made the clothes and knitted the cardigans etc. for my dolls; that was the most common gift for Christmas, and I loved it. (Well, she knitted stuff for me, too, but that's another cup of espresso.) In fact, three of my dolls used to be hers and are well over 80 years old by now.

[chocolate_frapp]

I bet they're collectors' items now.

[wiseheart]

Oh yes, I once saw the sister of one of them in a museum!

[chocolate_frapp]

I used to have plastic Charlie Brown and Lucy dolls when I was a little kid that were older than I was (they had belonged to my older cousin before me) that i loved and I saw the same ones in a toy museum a few years ago.