Other Fashions for Tiffany Taylor and Super Size Christie

Can Tiffany Taylor wear Basic Colin's fashion?

A reader of this blog who recently acquired 1970s dolls, Super Size Christie (Mattel) and Tiffany Taylor (Ideal), wants to dress the two in up-to-date fashions.  I was asked to suggest possible fashions they can wear.  Since I did not know, I asked others who suggested Butterfly Ring, CED, and Evangeline Ghastly fashions as possibilities.

I was not able to try any of my on-hand fashions on Super Size Christie because she is NRFB.  Since I have CED's Basic Colin Dehan, I decided to see if her denim fashion fits Tiffany Taylor.

Tiffany's body fits in Colin's fashion, but it is obvious she is wearing clothing that belongs to someone else.

Colin has a small waist, but Tiffany's is even smaller as illustrated by the extra room in the waist of the jeans she borrowed from Colin.

Next I tried one of Wild Imagination Lizette's hand sewn fashions on Tiffany Taylor.

Tiffany wears a snug-fitting hand-sewn-for-Lizette fashion

She can wear this three-piece ensemble made for Lizette, but it is tight on her body.  The jacket and skirt are made of a cotton blend fabric without any "give."  Underneath the short jacket is a light blue jersey knit top with a snap closure in back.  I was barely able to get the snaps of the top to meet and had difficulty snapping the high waist skirt.  If she were human, Tiffany would not be able to breathe.

I shared this information with the collector, but I believe finding contemporary clothing sewn especially for Super Size Christie and Tiffany Taylor is the best option. 

Finding coordinating shoes that fit the two will be a separate task.  Facets by Marcia possibly has some.

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In the first image above, Tiffany Taylor wears one of the twelve extra boxed fashions made for the doll by Ideal.  I have one additional Ideal-made Tiffany Taylor fashion shown below (it screams '70s, which is why it is still in the box).

Tiffany Taylor's multicolored, double-knit dress has beaded pink plastic straps.

Back of boxed Tiffany Taylor fashion illustrates other separately sold fashions.

The back of the boxed Tiffany Taylor fashion contains black and white illustrations of all twelve fashions that were made for Tiffany Taylor.  The green, pink, and purple dress my doll wears in the first image is the third one from the left in the first row of illustrations.   The mint in package fashion is the first fashion illustrated on the second row, far left. 


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