I would pay the full $8 for high quality shoes/boots such as Josefina's riding boots, Kit's work boots, or Kirsten's red boots. However, I would NOT pay that amount of money for little slippers- such as Josefina's Christmas or birthday slippers. They just don't entail the kind of workmanship that the others do.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I totally agree here. Kit's got some cute shoes with her School Outfit. And it's still pretty cheap. Deffinitly going to get that outfit when I get Kit.

But, you're so right about the shoes. I love the "extra" shoes, and they're totally worth the $8. I have every pair of shoes made for Sam, and they're all sooo cute, and totally worth the extra money. Some of these outfits, you really NEED the shoes, I cant imagine her tea or birthday dress with the black mary janes she comes in, those two dressed NEED the white and pink ones. Josefina's Riding Boots are deffinitly my favorite pair of historical shoes. They look SO perfect with her Riding Outfit, yet they're cute all around, and could easily be worn with a bunch of modern stuff, to give them a vintage flair, lol.

The thing with the shoes that come with the outfit is they match THAT outfit, and pretty much that outfit alone. Looking at the new Felicity/Elizabeth stuff again, Lissie appears to have on some neon pink slippers with the Tea Dress, they look quite ugly, but are probably cute in person. I can't see how those would look good with anything else Felicity has (maybe with Elizabeth's meet dress? [img]wink.gif[/img] ) And Elizabeth's Tea Dress comes with some little pink shoes, too.

I happen to like the little flats. Flats are about all I wear, myself, so it's cute to see the dolls have similar shoes, but I would like to see them go the extra mile with the shoes.

I also agree with Nancy, the AG clothes are overpriced to begin with. Not that they're not adorable, and much better quality than most things out there, but, for the price of 4 outfits, you could get another doll! Samantha has 16 outfits, each at about $24. If you had all of them, the price you paid could have bought you 4 brand new dolls. That seems insane! Actually, the fact that Samantha has 16 outfits seems insane, lol, especially considering Kit has 9 and Josefina has 8.

I went over the new price list-and you know what puzzles me greatly?
The new pj's-the paisley ones are less then the star pajames. The paisley is 20 while the star pj's are priced at 22. And the paisley set comes with more things-it is included with a sleep mask!

To bad I like the star pj's!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LMAO! The Star Pajamas are the ones I like, too, I think the paisley ones are quite ugly. I think the sleep mask is pretty ugly, and the whole idea of that for a doll is so bizare to me, perhaps if they didn't have sleep eyes, it would bea cutesy way of "closing their eyes" so they could "go to sleep," but as they close on their own, it seems a very weird thing to include. Do little girls even use these? The Slippers with the Star PJs are MUCH cuter than the other ones, these are fuzzy slippers, cyuuute!

Honestly, like everyone else, this price increase isn't going to stop me from buying outfits I want, but it is going to make it take me longer to get them all. I still haven't gotten the outfits from the Summer I wanted (Tennis, Horse Love, Molly's bathing suit, and Nellie's Irish Step) and most of those will probably be pushed back and back, and I wont end up with any of them (except the Tennis) until maybe Christmas, and probably not even then. But, new stuff just keeps coming out, and I get what I like most, and of course "new" stuff is always better than the stuff of 2 months ago, lol.


ksami, does Nellie's headband thingy fit around your head? I was thinking I would deffinitly wear it around the house (I'm a dork), but I don't know if it would even fit, not that I have a big head, but compared to an 8 year old, I suppose I do, lol.