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What determines the price of a doll? Its look or design? The presence of the doll with her or his aura when you see one? What makes you PAY that price? What makes us want that doll no matter what, it is a MUST have NEEDED item. Make that car payment late for THAT doll? Sometimes that's a YOU BETCHA purchase!
Is it the designer? Are we fixed on one person and every time a doll is repainted or produced by THAT person we MUST have it? Do we even bother to look at others designs with an open mind? Have we been cheated in our childhood that makes us WANT that doll? Or is it just our own adult minds over reacting to life in general and we have to go that one step beyond and GRAB that checkbook? What constitutes a designer? Is it someone that has been to The Rhode Island School of Design that WE look for and MUST have one of their creations for a "status symbol?" Even if we bought THAT doll and put it in our curio cabinet who's going to see it? WHO is going to know it was a "Joe Shmuck" original other than you, and your better half that has noticed a BIG chunk-o-money missing out of your monthly house account! Is it that extra netting put on that gown that constitutes a $350.00 price tag or is it the fact that material is rare vintage stock, beautiful silk or brocade lame, are the beads glass or plastic? Is that gorgeous gown in the picture made only of cotton? Is it the design or the extra beads on that gown that just grabs at our heartstrings? Guess we won't know until we hold it in our hands. Honey, as for me, that $350.00 gown had better fit me, NOT my dolls! UNLESS, there is a NAME on that tag other than "whatzhizname!" Remember we get what we pay for in the dolly life. But in the doll world we are ALL designers, creative crafters at heart. We found an avenue in this world to express ourselves, share our dreams of something that will never hit the mass markets. And that's GREAT! Why, because only WE know what really went into that creation. Our heart our soul, sometimes our innermost feelings go into a creation that we share with the outside world, sometimes not. Does it really matter or are we in it for the fame and so called fortune? This depicts the collectors vs the money makers. In the long run does it really matter? IS it what we want or need at that time? Is it an on going love affair with dolls in general that we must take that extra mile and go for it attitude? Indeed! Actually it's our hearts that speak through a molded piece of vinyl. And we love it! |
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