#are we seriously teaching 10-year-old girls that it's not okay to go out barefaced?

[marzipanandminutiae]

this is meant in a discussion tone, not a combative one, just to be clear! your memories of the era are obviously just as real as mine!

I’m not exactly up on the line past Kit, much, but which ones are 13? all the ones I’m familiar with are 9 and turn 10 over the course of their stories, and Wikipedia lists them as “8-11 years old.” Felicity and Samantha were also 9-10, I remember that much, and looking at the character birthdays almost all of them seem to be around that range. I still don’t recall any 10-year-olds with highlights in 1999, though I was rather younger (could be regional; I grew up in an upper-middle-class suburb of Nashville, Tennessee)

tinted lip balm or lip gloss, maybe, for 10-year-olds. I still feel like it was uncommon- again, at least in my region -but I do remember Lip Smackers party favors and such

the other salient thing to me, and I mentioned this in another reblog, is that these dolls don’t look like the actual modern-line American Girl dolls from 1999

why wouldn’t they just use the existing patterns? surely they must still have them, and what could be more authentic? (spoiler: it’s because they don’t care about authenticity anymore). the dolls pictured above actually look like my memories of being a kid in 1999- not like a Delia’s catalogue run through TikTok filters, with some Grin Pins off in the corner to add insult to injury

American Girl’s new “ historical“ dolls are from 1999.

You know. 24 years ago.

This brand has officially become a parody of itself.