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| Heidi Ott's African Girl II |
African Girl II is the name I assigned this 19-inch hard-cast vinyl doll that has a stockinette-over-vinyl body. I have another doll with this same head sculpt by Ott that is dressed differently and has a different hairstyle. I received this doll for the assistance I offered another collector in re-homeing her collection.
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I added the socks and shoes.
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African Girl II arrived wearing what I believe is the original light-blue smocked dress with matching panties. I added white lacy ankle socks and black Mary Jane-style shoes to the doll's bare feet.
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| The banged black wig is styled in a high ponytail with two spiral curls. |
Unlike the
other African Girl doll that arrived with a deteriorated now-replaced wig, this doll's wig has withstood the test of time. Both dolls were released in 1988.
Doll 3, Tressy by Ideal
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| Tressy by Ideal, 1971 |
Part of the Ideal Crissy grow-hair family of dolls, Sears Catalog-exclusive, Tressy from 1971 arrived with the Heidi Ott doll. This doll has been redressed in a replica of the original Tressy dress, panties, and headband. The black Ideal Crissy shoes are original. The hair remains silky and the grow-hair mechanism still shortens or lengthens when the back knob is turned.
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| The new girl (on the left) is shown with my originally dressed Tressy. Both dolls wear replicas of the original Tressy headband. |
I now own three Tressy dolls as illustrated in the next and final photo.
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| My Three Tressys |
The center Tressy shown above is the first Tressy I purchased during the late 1990s/early 2000s. Dressed in Crissy's Swirla Curla fashion, the doll's center grow-hair mechanism was beautifully replaced by a previous owner, and the two front-side braids were added.
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