Christmas Catalog Countdown - 12/21/06

Various Dolls - JCPenney Christmas Catalog - 1987


 

      

     I couldn't pick which line of dolls from this page I wanted to cover, so I didn't. Submitted for your approval are both Lady Lovelylocks and Moondreamers. Lady Lovelylocks is arguably the most well-known of the two sets. If I can be honest, my biggest memory of Lady Lovelylocks is that my sister had the coloring book. That doesn't make a good blog entry, though. I can recall that each doll came with hair clips (and I mean that literally. They were clips with hair attached.) They were crazy colors and I always thought the dolls looked better without them. There's just something about punked out girls dressed as conservative princesses that doesn't really work for me. Whatever. What I really want to talk about is the Moondreamers.
    I know a little something about Moondreamers. My sister and I each had one. Tracy had doll 02 and I had doll 03. We didn't ask for these, we just got them. I was actually pretty fond of my Moondreamer because she was one of the few dolls out there that came with glasses (which I had to start wearing the next year.) I'm not sure who gave us these dolls, most likely my grandparents, but they gave me the one I would have picked anyway. She was the only blonde doll with pants and glasses. Finally, a fantasy character I could relate to. These dolls were cute as a button, too. It looks like they each had a star comb stuck in their hair. I don't remember that. Most likely, our star combs didn't make it to January. What I do remember were those necklaces. I don't remember exactly which one came with Tracy's, but I know mine came with that blue teardrop. They were iridescent plastic (remember what I said in the Spectra entry about iridescent stuff?) that showed every greasy kid fingerprint. They came on this scratchy gold thread. I didn't wear mine around or anything, but I remember that it was stuck in with all of my stuff and I ran across it pretty frequently.
    Personally, I find the Moondreamers to be much cooler than those prissy Lady Lovelylocks dolls, but that's just my opinion.

 

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