Obsession

Part of my doll shoes collection.

I have to admitt, I'm an obsessive type. Obsessed with rats, dolls and... doll shoes! My dolls have to have shoes, otherwise their look is incomplete. I used to buy dolls for their shoes as well as not buy some, because I didn't have shoes to fit them.
I've committed a few pairs for the dolls less provided by the producers, but I haven't mastered it yet.
Today, I want to show you my favourite factory-made little shoes.


Yesterday I decided that since I have to go to the hospital again, I might as well get some new dolly shoes. I got my hubby running around the city and in the end I got... Jelly Babies. They're almost as good. ;)
Toy shops already have Christmas expositions, but the only doll shoe pack my hubby found consisted of two pairs of pink strappy sandals. Bleh!

Barbie's Pretty Treasures 1995

I found Barbie's Pretty Treasures set sometime around 1995 in the biggest toy shop in the city, an exceptional place for a child raised in the gray reality of communism, and they shone like a true treasure. I didn't dare to ask my parents to buy me the set, it was so expensive! I've collected all money I got for a month or so and got back to the shop praying for the set to be there. And it was waiting there for me!
It has everything I love about doll shoes - real lace, working buckles and two colours.

Shoes good for kicking butts and saving Ken (from left: Hi Hi Puffy Ami, Barbie's shoes from a shoe pack, Generation Girl Chelsea, Hi Hi Puffy Yumi)

Since most of my dolls were at that time more of adventurers than princesses, I dreamt about proper shoes for them. The beige ones above were the first I got, the others are recent finds.

Poseable Barbie shoes

Of course, poseable Barbie was another story. I didn't like that type of body and didn't have one for a long time due to lack of shoes. Love for Mattel's Mulan helped me to overcome this aversion and set me out hunting for flat shoes.

MGA's Top Models' shoes - lovely!

TBC.