Who would like to join the Girl Scout avatar craze?

[jrtmom3274]

*sniff* I'd love to post pictures, but the only remaining ones are newspaper clippings my grandma saved. She lives in WV. The others all went up in smoke. *sniff* [img]graemlins/rain.gif[/img]

[dolllover]

Great idea! I have TONS of GS pictures! Now if only I knew where they all were....

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[calyndra]

I was a late 80s brownie with that uniform too! I was really mad when they changed them. I felt that the new one wasn't traditional enough.

I LOVE Winnie's uniform, Taffy! Where did you get it??

~Abby

[dolllover]

Here are two from a Memorial Day parade around 2000:



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In the first picture I am in between the girl with the frizzy brown hair and the girl with the straight brown hair.
In the second picure I am the blonde girl waving at whoever was taking the picture (probably my dad).

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[TaffyCheerful]

Originally posted by Calyndra:
I LOVE Winnie's uniform, Taffy! Where did you get it??

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Back when Apryl Plagemann was making clothes to sell on eBay, rather than just reselling commercially made stuff, I had her make a number of outfits for my dolls. A tennis outfit (skirt and top), the Brownie outfit, a version of Molly's birthday dress with short puffy sleeves, as well as several others.

At that time, I was commissioning around one outfit per month out to various doll seamstresses as I could sew when I was on the road. I could do the design, even draft up a pattern and select the fabric, but did not have the tools or the opportunity to sew it up.

My one regret is that I did not take the time back then to make up the fabric with the Brownie icon stripes as the quality of Apryl's workmanship was truly awesome. Then she would have been able to make the "right" blouse for the outfit rather than just a plain white one.

This is neither the first nor the only time a seller who used to make clothes has gone to reselling. For example, the woman who made the best underwear for my dolls stopped making clothes and now resells doll wigs. When my girls discovered that, they went into a snit that lasted a week. Where else are they going to get the detail and craftsmanship that Tye Roy provided?

Additionally, when I wanted some 1950s-era gymsuits made in 18" doll size, I searched around for a doll dressmaker and found one who had stopped making doll clothes entirely. She made two, one red and one blue, and then promptly stopped making doll clothes ever again. Truly sad...

Taffy