Here is her dress in the box the day I got it:
I really like that Amelia has her own color scheme and design to her boxes by the way. |
And here is the dress on her in the garden today!
This is actually a five piece set and we'll start with the hat!
Here you can see the decorations |
The dress is made of a pink taffeta-silk (according to AGfAT) and in my opinion that wasn't a very good choice for this. It just seems to look very wrinkled all the time. Even in the promotional shots, but maybe it only bothers me?
The jacket:
The jacket has four mother of pearl like buttons on the front and two hiding just under the top of the bow in the back. It's trimmed with lace at the collar and cuffs. The cuffs also have a velvet ribbon around them. Which you can see below:
Velvet ribbon and lace on the cuffs. |
The skirt:
The skirt is trimmed all the way around with two velvet ribbons and taffeta ruffles. The front is also decorated with two bows but the back looks pretty plain until you add:
The bustle! This time it's a separate piece that attaches to two snaps on the sides of the skirt. It is trimmed with the same velvet ribbon and ruffles as the rest of the skirt. Off of the doll I really don't like the look of the bustle. I think it just look like a floppy wing of unecessary fabric but on:
I really I like how full it makes the back of the dress look!
See isn't that neat? I was actually pretty surprised by how good it looks! I would probably say the bustle is my favorite part of the whole outfit.
Last and totally least are her slippers:
I'm so underwhelmed by these. Again we have Matilda's original shoes in a different fabric and this time they don't even have any sort of trim or decoration. You can see that the back of my slippers are frayed. They didn't come that way! Unfortunately this fabric isn't stiff enough for these slippers and they are incredibly difficult to get on! I messed up the back of mine by using my nails to get them on and off.
Here are a few more pictures for you:
Amelia thinking deep thoughts like man this lady needs to weed out here! |
Amelia holding back her hair for me while I get ready to attach the bustle. |
Another shot of Amelia in the garden. |
I do have some exciting news! The first is that the mysterious doll I mentioned forever ago finally has a shipping date and I should get her before Christmas!! The second even more awesome piece of news is that I'm visiting the St. Louis American Girl store this weekend with my mom! We are meeting in St. Louis to take my brother to the Japanese Festival and the store isn't far away from our hotel. I'm not sure what I'm going to bring home but you can bet there will be a post all about it when I get back. Till then!
Have fun in st louis!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It should be good times!
DeleteAmelia is so pretty and she looks lovely in this pink victorian style dress!
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Thank you for the compliment! I really appreciate the kind words and encouragement!
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