Sunday, July 22, 2012

Tiny Fashion Dolls- Dawn...& Clean up of the DOll Room!





Barbietown has been cleaned up and re-organized. One problem is there was so much STUFF in the doll room and no where to walk. (for humans who take pictures, that is...I think the dolls do fine.) Bobby Greene lost his alley where he had his junk car parked that is being restored (the big orange corvette that is off brand in the front of the pic to the left-) that pile of stuff to the right in the last pic above is my piano from when I was three and my footstool my dad made me and I was taught at the age of 9 years old how to needlepoint by my mother. The piano is piled with items that are dollhouse related as well as dolls. If I move those items, I will have more space to spread out the limits of Barbietown! So I will be purchasing more posterboard later.
I needed to reposition the desk that holds the tinies' dollhouse which is on wheels. This is my old or first dollhouse I had when I was nine and the tiny bjd's and the mini american girl dolls are living there....I also wanted to make room to get to my other dollhouse, the Strawberry hill that was a yard sale dollhouse and I redid a few years ago, but never put windows in. I have recently re-discovered my Dawn & Pippa fashion dolls which I played with as a child and were actually the first dolls to live in my dollhouse the tinies live in...I may play switcheroo and move the tinies back to the Strawberry hill dollhouse. It depends on how modern the Dawns wish to live!
So here are more pics of the doll room....





In one of these pics, you can see all of the dollhouses together and how cluttered up the Strawberry Hill dollhouse is. So don't know yet if all of the Dawn dolls will live in the Strawberry hill, this is just something I am turning over in my mind. This house was actually supposed to be for my reproduction penny wooden Dutch dolls, since it looked so very victorian and it may still be furnished for them. The Dawns may need a new house!lol....

So here are some pics I snapped quickly of my Dawn collection. I am missing a Dawn doll that I purchased off of Ebay, will have to get pics of her later...






My Dawns have been stored in their case. Dawn fashion dolls and their clones like Pippa, were manufactured from 1969 to the early 70's. They were actually sometimes cheaper than Barbie- at that time you mainly had Malibu Barbie. I loved my Barbies but a doll was expensive back then- $3.99!!(wouldn't you love to pay $3-5 for a high quality doll now??) I think Dawns ran about $1.99-2.99 back then or less, their clothing might have cost .75 to $1.50 for their clothing. The 70s weren't that great for Barbie as far as clothes, and Dawn had gorgeous miniature evening gowns, some of which I still have...Barbie was too busy being a hippie and a surfer girl (yawnon the fashion back then, which were awful). So many times when given the choice between a fashion for Barbie or Dawn, I either chose a Dawn doll or her fashion. I remember Ben Franklin selling them alot as a child, as well as Memco and Woolworth's.
The last picture above is of Dinah? I think her name is, arranging flowers in my Tara dollhouse. Couldn't get a clear picture but her evening gown is still in good conditon and she was wearing shoes!
Enjoy!
~Lisa

2 comments:

RJ said...

I remember Dawn! She was my second favorite doll, after Barbie of course :)

LJR said...

I had Dawn, Gary, Angie, & Ron. They fit in the Barbie Country Camper better than Barbie. I had tons of stuff for the camper & would still have them if my sister didn't give them to charity when I moved out of state. It tears me up. I have to learn to forgive somehow.