Name: Essential Lizette Dionne
Made by and When: Wilde Imagination, 2011
Material: Articulated vinyl (has the usual five points of articulation; additional articulation is under the breasts, at the elbows, wrists, and knees).
Marks: (Head) ™&© WILDE IMAGINATION, INC.; (Lower Back) ©2006. / Tonner Doll Co., Inc.
Height: 16 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: The head is bald with two Velcro patches to attached wigs; has two wigs, one is a short brown pixie wig; the other is a black shoulder-length crimped wig; light-brown painted eyes with applied upper eyelashes and painted lower eyelashes, closed mouth with nude lip color. (Has pierced ears but did not come with earrings.)
Clothes: Wears a white eyelet camisole and pantaloons, off-white mesh tights, and white zippered-back ankle boots; has a story card poem, hang tag, and doll stand.
Other: Essential Lizette Dionne is the first of several Lizette dolls designed by Robert Tonner for Wilde Imagination (a Tonner-owned company). Lizette is a friend of Ellowyne Wilde.
Essential Lizette Dionne’s story card poem reads:
Meeting new friends is always a bit scary
I tend to hang back — I’m just a little wary;
But some of the drama — I’m starting to doubt…
I’m just ESSENTIAL
LIZETTE — and just a
little WIGGED OUT!
Gallery
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