Growing up, every time we made a day trip to San Francisco's China Town I got one of these poofy dressed Japanese boudoir type dolls (along with a packet of fire crackers and other flotsom). I eventually ended up with about a dozen. They weren't play dolls, but I think I managed to keep most of them in decent condition. This was the mid 70's and they are all long gone now.
Until I found one, in pretty bad shape, at the flea market recently for $1. I figured I could do something with her to clean her up. But when I glanced at her the other day in despair, her hand had come all unstuffed, and her base was missing. But her head was still in good shape. Her head. It was sitting right on top of a buncha dollfie bodies and *doink!* I had an idea.
I scrambled through my drawers, I had one beauty white EB A figure left. We pulled her head off, poked some of the styrofoam neck hole out to accomodate the neck post and jammed it on.
It was beautiful. A perfect fit. The skin tone even matches.
This Takara lingerie outfit fit nice, even the mob cap fit over her engorged head.
Must play with different looks.
Tried to look up some info on the web on them, and only found them referred to as "kelvin" dolls. This girl was a rather small version, the standard was about 19" tall. This girl was only about 12" with her giant head included.
I love flea markets.
Very cute! I remember having one of those dolls when I was little. My mom must've tossed it 'cause I have no clue what happened to it. (got it at the circus I think).
Yeah... I had a music box like that. My aunt gave it to me when we first met her(my mother's half sister, long story). I always loved the fricken HUGE dark eyes. XD Thrift/flea shops are teh best. There are a million of them on the way down to Springfield Mo. Someday I will shop them all!
Funny, I just picked up another one today! Roughly same size, larger eyes with much more color in them. Brown hair...
Was thinking that when I get the Mod Jenny Calendar Girl Tamaki of replacing her head. Would be very cute.
Being in the Bay Area, they're everywhere, both SF & Oakland have a large China Town. They sure were when I was wee.
That first blonde one I got for $1 at the flea, the one I picked up today was $5 at a Mission Street Thrift Town. But she was in much better shape. I'll still probably rip her head off though. Wee!
wow i have four of those dolls- ive been addicted to trying to find them all over the place- i always find them at garage sales- i love them very much, but i never knew what kind of doll they were- if you have any more info on them i would love to know!!! thankyou!!
hi, ive searched high and low on the internet and cannot find the dress she is wearing :O(
can you give me any more clues as to where i can find it? pleeeaaase :O)