My next girl, is also an LBE (Little Big Eyes) doll.
Her name is BERTHA BELLE.
She is named after ~
MY 2 GRANDMOTHERS, both of whom are not on earth, but they both lived very long and happy lives, and my three sisters and I were very fortunate to have them around for a lot of our lives, and even our childen's lives:
Bertha is my Dad’s Mother;
Belle is my Mom’s Mother’s middle name, well, actually it is ella, but close enough.
BERTHA came wearing her stock pullover knitted sweater in off white, with a red heart in the center. She has on denim bell-bottom pants, and red mary-jane style platform shoes. All the LEMON HAIR blonde LBE dolls have red stained feet from these shoes:
I did try a few methods to get rid of the stains, but for me personally, I do not plan to showcase her barefoot, or take any photo shoots with her not wearing shoes, and/or stockings/socks. The feet of the LBE dolls are also quite a bit larger than Blythe, so in order for her to fit into these fashions, I plan to modify all of their feet, making them smaller, just for the purpose of fashionable footwear!
Hello !
ReplyDeleteFirst, I want to thank you for this remarkable blog that contains so much interesting and valuable information.
I found your blog while researching information to write one or two papers about Blythe (authentic and so-called "fakes"), and similar dolls, for an European doll collectors association.
For most part of the contents, thanks to you I don't have to write the article, and I'll just put a link to your blog.
But I have questions about the LBE dolls that we don't know here in Europe: is "Little Big Eyes" an actual brand name, or just a kind of nickname ? Are they still available as new in the U.S., or are they all "vintage" ?
Your pictures and texts tell us everything we should know about the dolls themselves, but we know nothing about the brand.
Thank you very much if you can give me some answers .
Kind regards,
Alain.