Madame Alexander’s Cissy was the first fashion doll–meaning she has a woman’s shape down to her high-heel shoe-wearing feet. The first Cissy went on the market in 1955, five years before Barbie appeared. When my twelve-year-old self saw one on a shelf at Miller and Paine’s department store in Lincoln, Nebraska, my mother could barely [...]
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Introducing Cissy
Posted in Dolls on May 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What a Doll
Posted in Dolls, Gaming and Tech on March 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ooh, so doll designers are getting in on the action figure market. Seems like a really smart move to me. I see action figures cropping up all over the place. I saw a great YouTube video skit wherein action figures from Lost come across action figures from Pirates of the Caribbean. At one point Kate [...]
Tonner Blows One
Posted in Dolls on March 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I am a doll collector. There, I admitted it in public. I started this hobby way back in 1990, and you were with me when I bought my first dolls, Trep. As I recall we stopped in at the food mart of some giganto-mall in Phoenix and we drank iced green tea while I fretted [...]
