From a historical costumer's prospective I'm dissapointed in the new felicity/elizabeth items. Yes the accessories being plastic is cheap and not at all historically correct, but the costumes being all one piece has begun to really bother me. Elizabeth's ball gown should be two pieces, as well as her meet dress. the tea gown could have been a one peice dress, but with the lace apron it would have most likely been a bodice over a petticoat with a lace apron over it. It couldnt have been that hard for American Girl to make a few parts to the costumes, like Pleasant Company did with Felicities origional collection.

Like mentioned above, it used to take years to develop a historical doll and her collection. I'm beginning to think that AG just throws things together to make them cost effective.

Overall I am very dissapointed in what has taken place with the quality of the historicals. At least they have kept the stories!!

Thanks for the thread to vent our emotions. Hopefully now that I have it out I'll move on [img]redface.gif[/img]