Does anyone else put AGT clothing on Historicals??

[moderator]

I'm the type of "I have to be accurate" time-period nerd who would never even think of putting non-historical clothes on my American Girl dolls. [img]redface.gif[/img]

I do have one doll, a My Twinn Friend, who is a "time travel" doll that I dress in homemade fashions. I dress her in any period?s fashions?-from Kate Greenaway to the 1950s to today. It?s kind of freeing to be able to do that, but she?s the only doll

For some reason I just can't get over thinking American Girls are supposed to be historical. I think it has to do with knowing about them for several years before AGTs were released. So even seeing modern clothing on any of the dolls looks wrong to me. Yes, I couldn't get used to my AGTs because they looked so out-of-place in modern-day wares . . . I think that's one reason I gave them away! [img]wink.gif[/img]

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ January 09, 2006 01:45 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>

[Perstephanie]

Typically, I keep my girls in their historical clothes, but for Thanksgiving, I wanted to give them all something nice to wear, so seven of the girls wore the AGOT holiday outfits from 1999-2004 (Maddie, my AGT20, always wears the newest holiday dress for Christmas so I couldn't bear to put anyone in the chocolate cherry outfit), and Sam, Nellie, and Marisol wore Sam's spring party dress, Nellie's spring party dress, and Sam's croquet outfit, respectively. They all looked cute and Elizabeth looked especially stunning in the radiant rhinestones outfit.
I've also dressed Nellie in pretty much everybody's clothes--she particularly likes the AGOT clothes, but is also fond of Addy's cape island dress.
So I don't think it's weird sending clothes across the generations. I think it's fun. :>)