Isabel Doll and Meet Outfit
Feb 27, 2023 9:18:16 GMT -5
Post by bingandnelsonfan on Feb 27, 2023 9:18:16 GMT -5
Released February 2023.
Isabel Hoffman is growing up in the late ‘90s in Seattle with her twin, Nicki, by her side—and they’re opposites in so many ways! Isabel loves dancing, pop music, glitter, and all things pink. She prefers pink and preppy fashions, even when they make her stand out from the crowd. Can Isabel stand up for her style and embrace her “girl power”?
Premium features: An 18’’ Isabel™ doll with green eyes that open and close, and medium-length blonde hair with layers and platinum highlights. She has a soft cotton body, and her movable head and limbs are made of smooth vinyl.
Includes: A cropped purple cable-knit sweater with an attached pink pinstripe collared shirt, a multicolored plaid skirt, white knee socks, pink platform shoes, and cotton underwear.
Isabel Hoffman Doll
Price: $115.00
SKU#: 02BUN136
THUMBS UP ALL THE WAY! Get over the fact that AG wasn’t creative enough to come up with a new name, pick your own and have fun, because she's adorable!
Both Isabel and her twin are hard to resist. They look straight ahead (begging to be the one to go home with you), not down at the ground like Josefina. You all know we’re suckers for the Joss face mold, and that straight-on gaze is a big part of the draw for us. Oh, did I mention that? They’re definitely the Joss face mold. Their skin tone is the regular light #10 that you’d know from Julie, Rebecca, Corinne, et al. Don’t let AG’s retouched and/or overlit stock photos fool you — they are not the #05 light tone (like Blaire). Both of these straight wigs are fuller than you’d expect from recent AG releases and have a nice silky body about them. We think they’re pretty nice wigs (for AG wigs), not skimpy or see-through. These are two of the cutest dolls (if you like the Joss face)! If you want someone to choose the doll for you, give the Chicago AG store a call and ask for a Personal Shopper. There’s no extra charge to the buyer, and a number of people use them. It’s a service offered by that store, and the PS have good reputations.
I know that the majority of forum posts seems to push Nicki out in front as the favorite, but you really might consider taking another look at Isabel before you make a decision to buy just one. She’s even more adorable in person, with that unique wig (subtle two-tone blonde with a center part) and nice green decal eyes (like mid-Mattel Felicity dolls). This doll has a lot of personality that just didn’t show up in the stock photos.
You won’t be able to do much styling of the hair. She’ll definitely need a headband or hair clip at the sides to keep it from hanging in her face. And they layered a 1″ hank of hair at the front left side of the wig about an inch shorter than the rest. They were, obviously, going for that look when girls pulled their hair back and left one front hank of shorter hair hanging free and loose at the side of their faces. She has a really happy look, nothing shy or serious. Her face paint was pretty consistent (e.g., no blips on the lip paint or eye make-up).
THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN PICKING YOUR DOLL
There were two different “looks” for Isabel, like many of the AG dolls have had, but it was difficult to pinpoint the differences this time. Usually we know if it’s the thin-head-round-head thing. Or the wig line. This time, though, we really couldn’t tell. Everything looked all right, and there were thin faces and round faces, but it was something else that eluded us. We looked through every box in the store and felt the stock was pretty evenly split for the two looks. Her left eye has a bit of a problem with the socket being a taddy bit too large, so the eyeball innards tended to be slightly exposed. They’ve had dolls with worse (Kavi, for instance, is atrociously bad in the left eye). If this matters to you, then a personal shopper in Chicago might be called for here. We had no trouble finding one without the problem. This doll is a real charmer!
FWIW — We just unboxed Isabel to find out that she a wig issue. Apparently, AG took a side-part wig and put it on the doll as a center part without re-trimming it. This means that the wig runs at an angle in the back and is shorter on the left and longer on the right. We’re planning to remove the wig and put it back on where it’s supposed to be or use it on another doll. I won’t know yet until we finish all these reviews. We didn’t notice it at the store, but you barely got to see her without something on her head or one side of her hair pushed behind her back. (Perhaps the display people noticed the problem and were trying to minimize it?) Looking over all the pix we took, you can clearly see it once you know to look for it. They should have told the hairstylists at the store about their intent, because we just now fixed her hair the way we think they meant it to be and she’s even cuter than before. You could choose to trim the back to be straight or just live with it. I definitely wouldn’t let this turn you off, unless you can’t stand that stray hair hanging down in front of her face. She’s soooooo cute, oh my . . . (Mom just told Sis that if she doesn’t want it like this, Mom wants it for her “Kitty” character, wig and all.)
And here she is with another hairstyle and outfit on -- just to show how irresistible she is! This wig gives her real personality, and we're keeping her as is.
MEET OUTFIT
The Meet Outfit is similar in quality to what’s been released over the last couple of years, like Kira’s Meet, etc. Panties are the same small pink TM ones.
One-piece top, skirt, knee socks and shoes. The top is a one-piece job, with a woven blend sewn to a knit sweater bodice (front and back). There is no full blouse under the vest. Velcros up the back from the bottom of the knit to the top, but the shirt hanging below the vest just hangs open in the back. Buttons in the front are just for looks. The bottoms of the sleeves have a hem with no closure. The mini, a-line skirt is made of a thin woven fabric that velcros at the top in back. The white, stretchy knee socks look like other AG socks. The shoes have a soft vinyl top with a hard-plastic split sole (same color all around) and velcro closures on the straps. Surprisingly, she stands really well on her own in those tall shoes. (Is the height of these shoes because her book says she’s an inch taller than her sister?)
Isabel Hoffman is growing up in the late ‘90s in Seattle with her twin, Nicki, by her side—and they’re opposites in so many ways! Isabel loves dancing, pop music, glitter, and all things pink. She prefers pink and preppy fashions, even when they make her stand out from the crowd. Can Isabel stand up for her style and embrace her “girl power”?
Premium features: An 18’’ Isabel™ doll with green eyes that open and close, and medium-length blonde hair with layers and platinum highlights. She has a soft cotton body, and her movable head and limbs are made of smooth vinyl.
Includes: A cropped purple cable-knit sweater with an attached pink pinstripe collared shirt, a multicolored plaid skirt, white knee socks, pink platform shoes, and cotton underwear.
Isabel Hoffman Doll
Price: $115.00
SKU#: 02BUN136
THUMBS UP ALL THE WAY! Get over the fact that AG wasn’t creative enough to come up with a new name, pick your own and have fun, because she's adorable!
Both Isabel and her twin are hard to resist. They look straight ahead (begging to be the one to go home with you), not down at the ground like Josefina. You all know we’re suckers for the Joss face mold, and that straight-on gaze is a big part of the draw for us. Oh, did I mention that? They’re definitely the Joss face mold. Their skin tone is the regular light #10 that you’d know from Julie, Rebecca, Corinne, et al. Don’t let AG’s retouched and/or overlit stock photos fool you — they are not the #05 light tone (like Blaire). Both of these straight wigs are fuller than you’d expect from recent AG releases and have a nice silky body about them. We think they’re pretty nice wigs (for AG wigs), not skimpy or see-through. These are two of the cutest dolls (if you like the Joss face)! If you want someone to choose the doll for you, give the Chicago AG store a call and ask for a Personal Shopper. There’s no extra charge to the buyer, and a number of people use them. It’s a service offered by that store, and the PS have good reputations.
I know that the majority of forum posts seems to push Nicki out in front as the favorite, but you really might consider taking another look at Isabel before you make a decision to buy just one. She’s even more adorable in person, with that unique wig (subtle two-tone blonde with a center part) and nice green decal eyes (like mid-Mattel Felicity dolls). This doll has a lot of personality that just didn’t show up in the stock photos.
You won’t be able to do much styling of the hair. She’ll definitely need a headband or hair clip at the sides to keep it from hanging in her face. And they layered a 1″ hank of hair at the front left side of the wig about an inch shorter than the rest. They were, obviously, going for that look when girls pulled their hair back and left one front hank of shorter hair hanging free and loose at the side of their faces. She has a really happy look, nothing shy or serious. Her face paint was pretty consistent (e.g., no blips on the lip paint or eye make-up).
THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN PICKING YOUR DOLL
There were two different “looks” for Isabel, like many of the AG dolls have had, but it was difficult to pinpoint the differences this time. Usually we know if it’s the thin-head-round-head thing. Or the wig line. This time, though, we really couldn’t tell. Everything looked all right, and there were thin faces and round faces, but it was something else that eluded us. We looked through every box in the store and felt the stock was pretty evenly split for the two looks. Her left eye has a bit of a problem with the socket being a taddy bit too large, so the eyeball innards tended to be slightly exposed. They’ve had dolls with worse (Kavi, for instance, is atrociously bad in the left eye). If this matters to you, then a personal shopper in Chicago might be called for here. We had no trouble finding one without the problem. This doll is a real charmer!
FWIW — We just unboxed Isabel to find out that she a wig issue. Apparently, AG took a side-part wig and put it on the doll as a center part without re-trimming it. This means that the wig runs at an angle in the back and is shorter on the left and longer on the right. We’re planning to remove the wig and put it back on where it’s supposed to be or use it on another doll. I won’t know yet until we finish all these reviews. We didn’t notice it at the store, but you barely got to see her without something on her head or one side of her hair pushed behind her back. (Perhaps the display people noticed the problem and were trying to minimize it?) Looking over all the pix we took, you can clearly see it once you know to look for it. They should have told the hairstylists at the store about their intent, because we just now fixed her hair the way we think they meant it to be and she’s even cuter than before. You could choose to trim the back to be straight or just live with it. I definitely wouldn’t let this turn you off, unless you can’t stand that stray hair hanging down in front of her face. She’s soooooo cute, oh my . . . (Mom just told Sis that if she doesn’t want it like this, Mom wants it for her “Kitty” character, wig and all.)
And here she is with another hairstyle and outfit on -- just to show how irresistible she is! This wig gives her real personality, and we're keeping her as is.
MEET OUTFIT
The Meet Outfit is similar in quality to what’s been released over the last couple of years, like Kira’s Meet, etc. Panties are the same small pink TM ones.
One-piece top, skirt, knee socks and shoes. The top is a one-piece job, with a woven blend sewn to a knit sweater bodice (front and back). There is no full blouse under the vest. Velcros up the back from the bottom of the knit to the top, but the shirt hanging below the vest just hangs open in the back. Buttons in the front are just for looks. The bottoms of the sleeves have a hem with no closure. The mini, a-line skirt is made of a thin woven fabric that velcros at the top in back. The white, stretchy knee socks look like other AG socks. The shoes have a soft vinyl top with a hard-plastic split sole (same color all around) and velcro closures on the straps. Surprisingly, she stands really well on her own in those tall shoes. (Is the height of these shoes because her book says she’s an inch taller than her sister?)
