#100

Cissy in Rhinestone Tutu and Crown for Ice Capades,c. 1960
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$800
sold
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Description
20" (51 cm.) Hard plastic socket head,sleep eyes,lashes,auburn hair curled around the face in pixie-style and then pulled back into ringlet cluster at her crown captured within a crown that is heavily-encrusted with glass crystals and prismatic rhinestones,nine-piece adult-lady-shaped body. She is wearing a fitted tutu entirely covered with rhinestones excepting the V-shaped front panel,rhinestone straps,hoop-shaped pleated short tulle skirt with rhinestone trim,stockings,heeled silver shoes,drop earrings. Excellent condition,complexion a bit darkened. Alexander doll,costumed by the Ice Capades milliners in an exacting replica of costume worn by actual skaters,and used in publicity for that year's performance; it is likely that only one or two of each model was made,c. 1960.