More stuff online: September
Catalog: October
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I placed a phone order today and the CS rep told me that Felicity and Elizabeth will be in the October catalog, which is scheduled to be mailed out on Sept. 12.
And as for the comprehensive catalog, I would LOVE this as well. It would be wonderful to have one for a keepsake, and I'd be willing to pay for it.
A holiday catalog would be great. Pleasant Company catalogs were the best. Beautiful photography and design. The life size photos of each doll and all the pieces of her collection. I wasn't lucky to have started back in the day when there was only 3 dolls, but when there was 4. I would flip through the catalog repeatedly. I devoured every description of the girls. And my catalog when not in use was opened to the life size photo of Molly.
I would love to see a decrease in catalogs that are repeats throughout the year with maybe a different cover. My name must be on the mailing list a few times because I get a lot of the exact same catalogs fairly close together. If it was possible for AG to cut down on the repeated catalogs to the same person and then eliminate the catalogs that are the same but a different cover, they would not only help the environment a bit but also cut cost. I know when I was younger, though I was excited to get frequent catalogs if they were the same exact thing in the inside I was bored, I can only imagine what the girls today are feeling.
My dreams tonight will probably be of a massive AG Holiday Wish Book ala JC Penny. I can imagine it now. And it wouldn't be that thick. I can just imagine my twenty something year old self, pouring through it repeatedly, circling things I want and need to complete my collections. And heck if that fee (what Penny's is like $8 or something) included some sort of ordering incentive, I'd probably order a bunch of my circlings.
A girl can dream....
I wonder what the little girls feel about this? If they would be willing to see a reduction of catalogs throughout the year to get a comprehensive catalog at the end?
I loved those old catalogues! My parents couldn't afford to buy me a doll, so I'd cut out the full-size photos very carefully by undoing the staples- and post the "posters" on my wall. Once I cut out Felicity, glued her to a thin cardboard, and played with her like a big paper doll.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yup, me too! I had a homemage ragdoll Lissie. Images 2 and 3 hereOriginally posted by colettedenali:
I loved those old catalogues! My parents couldn't afford to buy me a doll, so I'd cut out the full-size photos very carefully by undoing the staples- and post the "posters" on my wall. Once I cut out Felicity, glued her to a thin cardboard, and played with her like a big paper doll.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2126550100
However I mostly played with the catalogs. I saved several catalogs and played with the lifesize ones "scenes and settings" style. I'd have 2 or 3 of the life size pictures(my mom used the school laminator on them) playing together.
<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ August 02, 2005 05:22 AM: Message edited by: GreyMyst ]</font>
I'm so glad I'm not the only one with catalog memories.
My friend and I used to go through item by item to see if any of the descriptions or prices had changed.
I also used to cut out the dolls in the different outfits (need more than one catalog to get them all because of the facing pages) and play with them like paper dolls.
My favorite thing about the catalog was the covers that featured a girl dressed as her doll playing with the doll. Those dress like your doll dresses are what got me into AG, even though I never had one. I know they don't sell them anymore, but I miss seeing them.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one too!
When I called my mom last night, I mentioned Elizabeth and she said... "remember when we had to drive you to every single bookstore in town for the trading cards?"
that was for their first incarnation. back then, they were free w/ a book purchase or 1.00 a pack. our local independent bookstore owner was AMAZING and gave me about 25 packs since she knew i'd been buying AG books there for about 6 or 7 years.
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