Saw a video posted to facebook about Tree Change Dolls, an Etsy project put together by Sonia Singh. I always thought the Bratz dolls seemed an inappropriate toy for kids. From my perspective it was a display of an "attitude". I also didn't think that the inhuman proportion of the head, that there would be possibility of making them look normally proportioned, but from her shots it worked out. The video looks at it from a girl's perspective, would they look like a friend or someone to play with. It does not sound like she plans to take the business to market, she made one wave of dolls. Perhaps the toy companies will learn from her and design friendlier looking toys in the future.
I don't have girls but if I did I would probably try to find gender neutral toys that didn't have the overtones those dolls suggested. From the Tree Change Dolls photos it was amazing how much makeup was put on - the lips were twice the width of the normal ones she put on later. Also her mother's sewn clothes could probably sell for hundreds of dollars online on their own, very well crafted. All in all it was interesting to see how she not just reused the discarded toys, but redesigned them in such a way better than a restore to the original.
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