Dress Up

I think this first beautiful dress is a bit too big for all of my dolls, but I love Maniloa in this antique gown I'd gotten on a trip to Maryland in the nineties. The overdress belonged to a friend of mine's daughter, and the TIKI is from Hawaii, and what's more, the shell beads came from our family trip there when we were children. Maniloa is a great doll for dress up. She's my biggest Himstedt yet. She's only three inches taller than Liri, I think, but Liri is more slender. I'm not sure if Liri and Pauline have nipples and a navel, either, like she does. FYI: I would not use them on a doll's face, as I know, they take the finish off ceramics, but she had a spot on one arm that I feared was mold and a scratch on the other, and Mr. Clean Magic Eraser took both right off.