Name: Tiffany Taylor
Made by and When: Ideal Toy Corporation, 1975
Material: Vinyl
Marks: ©1973 (Ideal logo) / CG-19-H-230 / HONG KONG (on the head); 6 /©1974/(Ideal logo) / HOLLIS, N.Y. 11432 / 214-5854-01 (on buttocks)
Height: 18 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Swivel skull cap is rooted with black hair with bangs in the front and parted auburn hair in the back. Brown painted eyes have painted and applied upper eyelashes and painted lower eyelashes. The lips are closed and slightly pursed.
Clothes/Accessories: Gold lamé body suit has an attachable chartreuse yellow full-length skirt, wears lime green mules; has two hair rollers and two hair pins.
Other: Brunette Tiffany becomes a redhead when the swivel skull cap is rotated. Black Tiffany Taylor uses the White doll’s box, the bottom of which describes the White doll’s change hair color feature as, “To change hair color quick-as-a-wink rotate top of head. Blonde Tiffany becomes a brunette.” A Tiffany Taylor commercial only featured the White doll.
Gallery
The box side panels illustrate the White doll. The skirt buttons onto the bodysuit. The back of the box also illustrates
the White doll.The hair changes from brunette to auburn. The brunette side has bangs; the auburn side has a part that can be worn in the center
or to the side of the head. The doll shown wears a separately-sold Tiffany Taylor fashion.
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