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    Can someone tell me since when the body of the dolls become thin?
    I started to collect AG dolls 7 monts ago and all of my dolls are from the store.
    I few weeks ago I got one doll made in 1986 and her body is thick than the precent dolls.
    1986 doll has 11 3/4" waist ( edit the year - I wrote wrong 1996)
    present doll - 10 1/2"
    What year they changed the size of waist?
    1 1/4" is a big difference for the clothes!
    [img]confused.gif[/img]
    Thanks in advance!

    <font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ June 05, 2006 04:03 PM: Message edited by: p69 ]</font>

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    Thanks!
    I like the dolls with thin waist, but i think that this change is betrayal towards the collectors.

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    Some outfits don't fit the old dolls. They need to make corsets for the older dolls so they can sinch in a inch or two.

    [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img] (Molly did not like that idea. She dropped her glasses again.)

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    Originally posted by Taffy Cheerful:
    Oh, yeah. A 10% change in waist dimension is like a 20-25% change in overall weight for people. That is a lot of change... It is just not understuffing--the seams had to change to accomodate that much of a change.

    If the dolls were to mirror society, then Mattel went in the wrong direction. LOL!

    Taffy

    <font color="#33CCCC"><font size="1">[ June 05, 2006 12:12 PM: Message edited by: Taffy Cheerful ]</font></font>
    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ever hold a PM doll? I love Kirsten and Sara because they're huggable, but their bodies are huge. The thinner dolls are probably more proportionate.

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    [quote]Originally posted by Bean Bunny:
    Ever hold a PM doll? I love Kirsten and Sara because they're huggable, but their bodies are huge. The thinner dolls are probably more proportionate.
    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">ROFL maybe, but I think what he was saying is while the country as whole is getting fatter, the dolls are getting thinner.

    Some PM dolls do have freakishly large torsos though.

    I think a happy medium would have been better.

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    Most of my PM dolls have a 12" waist, and all my Mattel dolls have a 10 and 1/2" waist---so I think it probably took place around 2000, when Pleasant Rowling left the company completely. [img]frown.gif[/img]

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    Oh, yeah. A 10% change in waist dimension is like a 20-25% change in overall weight for people. That is a lot of change... It is just not understuffing--the seams had to change to accomodate that much of a change.

    If the dolls were to mirror society, then Mattel went in the wrong direction. LOL!

    Taffy

    <font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ June 05, 2006 12:12 PM: Message edited by: Taffy Cheerful ]</font>

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    Wow, I didn't realize it was that much of a difference!

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