Chinese New Year Outfit (1996-1999)

This outfit is really great. It comes with several pieces: pants, an undershirt thing, a jacket, shoes, a hairclip and ribbons. The undershirt is made from a silk like material and is an odd shaped piece of fabric that ties around the waist and snaps around the neck. The pants and jacket are made from heavy brocade and embroidered with gold dragons. The jacket closes with "frogs" which can be difficult to fasten and easy to pull off from the jacket. The pants have an elastic waist and fit Susanna and Sam snugly. The hair ribbons are cheap,feeling and are just generic, nothing special. The hair clip is a barette with flowers glued on. It's cute but the flowers can fall off with a lot of play. The shoes are slip on "velvet" type shoes like the ones that come with the 1995 AGT Meet outfit.

Overall: this is a great outfit but it doesn't stand up to a lot of play or years in storage. The barrette breaks easily.

Grade: A