Evette's Accessories

[Librarian4]

Sorry that I don't have any pictures, but Evette's accessories are very well made. The jacket is lovely. It's a gray with tiny white pinstripes and beautiful orange and red/pink embroidered blooms on it. In her book, the jacket looked like it might have been a blue jean jacket, but it's not. The purse is brown with tassels and well made also. It's very cute. The cream colored sunglasses go very well with Evette's coloring. I give this set an A+.

[mamared]

Evette's Accessories are currently half off (only $18), so of course I picked them up when I purchased Evette earlier this week! Here's the description:

Evette loves thrift shopping and upcycled fashion, and she’s always on the lookout for something a little special, like the items in this set:
A collarless cropped striped denim jacket with floral embroidery on the front
A faux-suede crossbody purse with bumblebee embroidery on the front flap and tassels
A pair of retro-inspired cat-eye sunglasses with ombre lenses



I like all of the accessories, but the jacket is my favorite piece! It's very cute, nicely made, and goes really well with Evette's meet outfit. I like the blue and white (or off-white?) pinstripes and the floral embroidery on both sides of the front, which is supposed to have been done by Evette herself. I think the greens, blues, whites, and pink/corals of the floral embroidery are pretty and seem versatile enough to go with other ensembles, too, so the jacket isn't limited to just this outfit. The two side pockets are faux, but the four silver-colored buttons that go up the front are real. Even though Evette's meet dress has long sleeves, the jacket goes on easily. I didn't have any difficulty getting the cuffs over Evette's hands, and the dress sleeves didn't look like they were bunched up under the jacket. Yay! However, when buttoning the jacket, I did have trouble buttoning the last button (closest to the waist), and after a few minutes, I just gave up on it. I don't know if that's something other people have had difficulty with or if it's just mine. I'll give the jacket an A- (docked just a little because of the bottom button, but otherwise I really like it).








The purse is cute. It's about 2 inches wide and 1.5 inches tall, and a saddle-brown vinyl with a gold bee embroidered on the flap, plus a brown tassel and white tassel dangling from the closure. I like it as a crossbody purse, but it seemed just a little tight to wear it like that when Evette was wearing her jacket, so it became an over-the-shoulder purse when wearing her jacket. It closes with velcro, and it seems like it would be big enough to carry something inside (maybe a thin scarf or pretend cell phone). I give this a B only because it's so obviously vinyl and because a slightly longer strap would've worked better over the jacket.







I agree with the last poster about how well the cream colored sunglasses and ombre lenses go with Evette's coloring! They're also especially functional in helping to hold her hair back, and they're all kinds of cute whether she's wearing them on her face or head. The sunglasses get an A from me.





My only disappointment with the set is that there are two necklaces that figure prominently in Evette's book - a silver heart-shaped necklace sent to her by her Grandma Peeters during the pandemic ("We may be apart, but we're always close in heart"), and a locket with an umoja symbol given to her by her Gran E during Kwanzaa ("Promise always to seek umoja: unity in the family, community, nation, and race"). Both are really important to Evette and her story, and I would have really liked to see them in the accessory set.

Still, in spite of the points I mentioned, for only $18 (the price I paid), my overall grade for the entire accessory set is an A. All of the pieces are really cute and go especially well with Evette, but they're also clearly versatile enough to go with other dolls and other outfits. At the original price, I probably would have given the set a B or B+.