Or The Invasion of the Jackie Dolls. Check out your doll displays and search under the beds. Are there some undiscovered look-alikes lurking there?
Changing the scale is something doll manufacturers have been doing since the invention of molds. Big and small were not necessarily designed to be seen together – which is exactly why we’ve done it. You can get some great effects by pairing some of these Amazons with their diminutive sisters. It’s also makes for surprising comparisons: some of these twins are less alike than imagined, and siblings may be found where none were expected.
Versions from Madame Alexander, the 21-inch Cissy-size doll wears a pink bouclé outfit from the Jackie’s Travel Collection giftset. The smaller (10-inch tall) Jackie is Cissette size and wears her own pale green suit with matching accessories.
Why not search through your collection to see if you can find sisters, or brothers, under the skin. You might find some unexpected combinations, and outfits intended for others that look great on different dolls. It’s a great way to extend the play value of your collection, and you might find an unlikely mini-twin or two hiding among your dolls.
Whether your collection is strictly vintage, cutting-edge modern, or an eclectic mix, it’s an excellent excuse to rummage in the darkest recesses of your doll closet to see what you can unearth. You could also use this exercise to rationalize your collection. Do a bit of pruning and refine your dolls down to the ones you absolutely must keep. So check them out and decide which were separated at birth and which ones are merely close relations.
Fashion Doll Agency’s Petra (left) is a convincing grown-up sister for vintage Sasha (right), they share a similar, yet charmingly impressionistic, face painting. Petra wears a sheer black dress from Tonner’s Agnes Dreary launch doll. Sasha models her own blue velvet outfit. Also shown is the mini blonde vintage interloper, Moni (center), a dinky-sized 60s illegal clone of Sasha – the manufacturer, Uranium had to cease production due to copyright infringement.Three vintage beauties. Miss Seventeen (left) is a 15-inch hard plastic doll wearing American a la Mode and made by the Louis Marx Co. in 1961. She is a scaled-up version of the original German Bild Lilli doll, a precursor to vintage Barbie. Lola (center) created by Julian Kalinowski in the UK, is a convincing modern version of Lilli, using old production techniques to amazing effect. Hong Kong Lilli (right), wears Date Bait, as featured in Penney’s catalog of 1963. She is a clone version of Lilli produced inexpensively in the (then) Crown Colony for a mass market. Jason Wu’s LiveWire from the AvantGuards Premiere Collection with her mini counterpart – which is which?Ideal’s Tammy’s Mom, and Carol Brent aka Liz (left and right) using a similar head mold to Tina Cassini (center) by Ross Products. All dolls are wearing original vintage outfits.Thunderbirds are Go! Lady Penelopes big and small. A contemporary take based on a Hasbro Lorifina doll (left) in an outfit from Jackie’s Travel Collection, compared with a vintage Fairylite version in original pant suit complete with milady’s trademark cigarette holder. “Get the Rolls Royce, Parker – we’re going for a little ride.”
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