Name: School Dazed Lizette
Made by and When: Wilde Imagination, 2013
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.
(Skirt Tag) Made Exclusively for / Ellowyne Wilde ® / ™&© WILDE IMAGINATION, INC.
Complexion: Honey
Height: 16 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Long brunette hair with loose curls and straight bangs, inset brown eyes with applied upper eyelashes and painted corner and lower eyelashes, closed mouth
Clothes/Accessories: Wears an English-style schoolgirl uniform of a satin-lined navy-blue blazer piped in green, a long-sleeved white cotton bodysuit/shirt, a white vest, a navy-blue bow tie, a belted blue/green plaid pleated skirt with an attached white cotton lace-trimmed slip, white over-the-knee socks accented with a satin navy-blue side bow, and black high-heel Oxford. Accessories include a hang tag, a story card, and a straddle doll stand.
Other: School Dazed Lizette was produced in a limited edition of 200 dolls, some of which were created as souvenirs for the 2013 Motor City Doll Club (MCDC) luncheon benefiting the Horizons–Upward Bound (HUB) Program at Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The doll in this installation is one of the MCDC luncheon souvenir dolls. Accessories include an Ellowyne Wilde hang tag, a straddle doll stand, and a story card poem.
School Dazed Lizette’s story card poem reads:
It’s almost like the first
day of attending a
new school
Moving to the city
and not feeling
very cool;
But once I met my
friend Ellowyne, I really
was amazed
To just be me—Lizette—and
totally SCHOOL DAZED!
Gallery
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