astringofmadhousefloozies: roughdiamonddolls:welcome home Ophelie, the newest of our family! she&r
astringofmadhousefloozies: roughdiamonddolls: welcome home Ophelie, the newest of our family! she’s a Francois Gaultier fashion lady, probably from the 1880s if her princess petticoat is original (the arm holes look like a style from that era to me, and the combination chemise-petticoat first became a thing around 1877). she has a dress; I just feel like it’s massively tacky. it may be made of antique materials, but it’s this odd mustard yellow with pink trim her body has some serious damage to the hands and the arms; the fingers are splitting along the seams and, in an attempt to tourniquet off the leaking sawdust, someone tied thread tightly around her wrists. so now her hands are all floppy on loose wrists devoid of stuffing. because someone couldn’t bother to just stabilize the splits she also has a lot of cracks on her head, possibly from being dropped at some point, but they’ve been repaired I couldn’t resist that sweet face, so here she is! ready for new hair and clothes and a new life She’s very sweet looking! I hope that you can fix her up some. Would it be considered ruining her to make her new arms? Antique authenticity only goes so far when shit’s damaged. I could, but since I have the original arms, they’re stable enough, and the look of it doesn’t bother me, I’d rather just leave it alone. Besides, color-matching the age discoloration of her body would be a nightmareI will, however, be getting her a wig and pate and making some new clothes. So look out for that! -- source link