I have a couple of Daisys and Willows and several of the fashions and definitely prefer Daisy. Randall is right, the time is now to be picking up Daisys and Willows and their fashions for way below original retail. A lot of doll shops that advertise in Doll Reader and Dolls were running specials on these dolls during the holidays and I see the ebay prices are rock bottom.
While I wasn't enamored of the mod fashions era, Doug and Laura did do an exceptional job of researching the fashions they designed. I've thought about buying Franklin Mint's Twiggy to go along with D & W, but it's the fashion era that I can't get into. Of course, I'm not too keen on the 80s fashions either, so if someone makes a line of dolls to fill that niche in fashion doll I'd be hard-pressed to buy them, too.
By the way, Doug and Laura did make a conscious choice to not root their dolls' hair because it did allow them to create the extra hair pieces. (I distinctly remember wearing lots of hairpieces myself during the 70s--it was very trendy.) Wigging a doll is also more expensive than the machine rooting. You don't see Madame Alexander's high end collectible dolls with rooting. The materials for machine rooting are much cheaper to buy and simpler to install in a doll's head. Wigging reguires several extra steps before getting the hair on the doll's head. But a wigged doll vs. rooted is a personal preference. I've never been too discerning about either method...Not that observant, I guess. pat ----- Original Message ----- From: Elizabeth biz000art@yahoo.com To: nqsqurtz@staffnet.com; candichat@dolls.de Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:30 PM Subject: Re: Olmec Toys and Candi History
Thanks Pat.
Now I am interested more than ever!!(he-he) I think I'll have to start looking around for these dolls on e-Bay.
Their names alone sound very interesting and unique: Imani and Menelik... ...'gotta see what they look like! *g*
That's something about the CandiChat that's one of its specialties: all the collectors on the List have knowledge of other dolls that expands
> our appreciation of how far Candi has come and > the long-lived appeal ethnicallydiverse fashion dolls have with collectors.
Regards, Pat Brown
YES! That is something I am really enjoying about CandiChat as well!!
Although not an 11 1/2" doll, I thought I would bring up one that I thought was unique, yet far overdue: Daisy--She's an ethnic mix of East Indian and British.
I have one Daisy and one Willow doll ("the British Mod Birds"), and I really like them a lot (except for the fact that their hair is wigged and not rooted).
This is something I haven't seen: an East Indian doll. (Not counting B*rbie--"Dolls of the World"). Wouldn't it be great if Integrity introduced one?!
Just a thought... Elizabeth
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