How to Wash Saran Doll Hair What is Saran Hair Fiber? Saran is a very common artificially produced fiber that was very popular for doll hair in the 1950s. Saran is usually rooted directly into the doll's...
Important to the aesthetic appeal and value of a doll is the wig. Hair was crucial to dolls as children loved to comb them and style them. There were various materials used in the 1950s which are outlined as...
The 1950s was a time of high-fashion and the doll clothing of this era reflects this. Most collectors look for original 'factory' clothing. The fifties was a time where moms made doll clothing for their...
I am a doll collector who really loves collecting the Ideal Toni dolls with the Magic Nylon Hair that you could wash and set and curl. They started making this doll in the late 1940's and later she was made in...
Is there a brown-eyed Toni? Yes indeed, there is. It is often said that Ideal planned to make an African-American Toni, then scrapped the idea. Whether that is true, I am not sure. They did make some brown...
For the doll collector's who haven't been collecting for a long time, I thought I would mention something that I learned by accident some years ago. I didn't know there was a difference in the arms of a...
The Sara Ann Doll is a "Toni" doll with a saran wig. Basically, Ideal knocked off their own doll! The Toni doll had a licensed "nylon" wig with a playwave kit, which was revolutionary for the doll industry....
Toni clothing is fairly easily to identify. First of all, Ideal tagged their clothing - it is a small Toni tag, almost always sewed into the waist seam in the back hanging vertically. Often the tag is...
Toni dolls were made with mostly blue eyes but a few were made with brown eyes and are unmistakenly a dark, Root Beer Brown that leaves no question as to whether or not the eyes are really brown and have not...