Collecting Fashion Dolls by Terri Gold

1/14/2009

Handmade Couture for Fashion Royalty

If you buy on eBay you probably have seen hundreds of OOAK and handmade items for your 1/6 scale divas. I'm sure you check feedback before plunking down that Paypal payment. A seller who has many comments about late delivery and a less than stellar record usually does not get my business but I couldn't resist this time. In December I purchased two gowns from Parawatee, formerly TD Fashions. I bought them about two weeks apart. The first, paid for on December 15 has not arrived and I had to file with Paypal to get action. Parawatee does not speak enough English to be able to communicate even in a very simple form. But this woman knows how to sew. Aside from Jason Wu's creations for Fashion Royalty and Gene Marshall, these are the finest items I have ever seen for modern fashion dolls. The detail, the fit and the finish is superb. If this seller could improve her language skills and ability to ship on time, she'd probably be sold out.

Purchase price was $49.99 plus $7. to ship. Gown did not come with any accessories. Most of her gowns run about $69.99. My model is A Fashionable Life Vanessa. Jewelry is by Joy.

1/13/2009

BLACK CANARY™: Blonde Bombshell

This doll needs to live here! I could just drive over to the Tonner Company Store and get her but I am so accustomed to getting Tonner dolls at a discount from dealers, that I have resisted since she came out. The retail (that's the only way to get her) price of each doll is $159. plus tax (I live in the tax kingdom of New York). She would cost me about $172.50. They are all limited to 200. Do I wait for a sale? Maybe I'll just go over there and pet her.

The entire line of Women of Power is so appealing. The idea that these gorgeous-looking, beautifully dressed women have superpowers intrigues me.

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Kara of Krypton (Supergirl) aka The Girl of Steel and cousin to Kal-El, Mera, Queen of Atlantis who is married to Oris (aka Aquaman,) Black Canary (The Blonde Bombshell) aka Dinah Lance.

1/12/2009

My Discobum Has Arrived!

Although designed for Sybarite dolls, I will be using this with my 12" gals. It makes a perfect couch.
I love it and will be photographing it ALOT.

You can find it at this location http://www.superdollonline.co.uk/acatalog/OUTFITS___Accessories.html

This image is the property of Superfrock.

Confidential: secrets, teasers and hidden faces.

If she looks as good from the front as the side, I might have to have her.

This image is the property of Integrity Toys.

1/08/2009

Onyx Veronique

Onyx Veronique was a Wu Convention upgrade doll. I had two of them; I sold them both. I just bought another and I'm glad I did. This doll is just gorgeous. Her skin is very porcelain-like and her hair is silvery - platinum. This is the only Fashion Royalty doll with this color hair that I can think of. Her eye shadow extends far beyond her eyeliner in a wing-like shape. As soon as I saw her, I thought of Oona, the special competition doll from the Gene convention.