Re-Root: Susie Sad Eyes
I purchased a Susie Sad Eyes/Little Miss No Name lot online earlier this month. I’ve wanted to try my hand at re-rooting both dolls and the price was great. The first doll to be re-rooted? Susie Sad Eyes. Susie Sad Eyes dolls (of which there were many off shoots by different companies) were made in the sixties and seventies and were inspired by popular artist Margaret Keane’s big eyed portraits.
Susie started with rooted black hair. The hair plugs were few and far between. I’m still amazed the sporadic hair plugs actually work well on the head! Also interesting to note is that Susie has quite a cone shaped head!
Susie received some left over hair I purchased from Dollyhair. (I’ll edit in the exact name of the color when I go through my supply box!)
I think Susie looks much happier with this brighter shade of hair. It suits her pale face much better than the black she arrived with.
Susie is currently decked out in part of a vintage Skipper outfit. I look forward to finding another Susie to re-root and experimenting on adding hair plugs to give her hair a fuller look. She’s not the most well made of dolls, but I like how this re-root turned out!
Dolly Report: Little Miss No Name
This weeks Dolly Report is on a doll that to me is adorable, but to the vast majority of the people I’ve shown her to, well, she seems to freak them out.
Little Miss No Name (LMNN) was released in 1965 by Hasbro. Designed by Deet D’Andrade (who also designed of the Blythe dolls), LMNN is 15″ tall with rooted blond hair, enormous (Keane Style) eyes, and round cheeks.
She wears a brown burlap sack with two patches sewn on it. Originally, she came with a headband for her hair, a safety pin to hold her burlap outfit together, and white undies. If you lift her arms, her hands are molded in such a way that you can assume she might be asking for money.
The neatest part about LMNN’s design is her tear. Early LMNN’s came with a hole right above their eye where you would insert a peg ended tear. Later throughout her single year run, the hole would be lowered a bit and eventually removed all together.
The Keane-eyes on LMNN are the most endearing feature on this doll. Ironically enough, that is the feature that most of the people who have seen her find freaky. There are some scary looking dolls out there– a dirty, scraggly haired LMNN isn’t the prettiest thing around. (If you find yourself with a doll like that, it’s usually easily fixable if you give her a good washing and give her a decent haircut/hairwash)!
It is rare to find a LMNN mint in a box for less than triple digits. Actually, I’ve never seen that happen– ever. I recommend watching Ebay and checking frequently for dolls up for auction. You can pick up a doll in decent shape for upwards of $50 in most cases.
And that concludes this weeks Dolly Report. Check back next week for another Dolly Spotlight.
