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[Enufstuff]

  After a fun summer going to the beach, picnics, vacationing at her aunt and uncle's farm in Maine, summer reading and just playing with friends, it is time for back to school for Toni.

  She is looking forward to returning to school

and seeing all her schoolmates.

  For her first day of school, she will be wearing her apple print dress. It has a Peter Pan collar and puffed sleeves and is trimmed with tiny red ric rac, in the 1950's style, so popular back then.

  She is wearing her red patent leather shoes 

with little red bows.

  Toni has a sweet, crisp, red apple to bring to her teacher.

[SportyShorty07]

@Enufstuff  Toni wins the best-dressed award for her first day of school 🤗🍎!  Absolutely adorable outfit- you did an incredible job sewing her dress and doing her hair 😊.  I love the cheerful apple print contrasted by the red ric rac, torso and sleeves.  You have such an eye for details and color.  The dress has a lovely full skirt and I especially love the mini apple in her hands and the little red mary jane shoes. Color coordinated head to toe.

    You're an expert in Toni's dress design and you're a gifted artist.  Your work puts a smile on my face and takes me to a different world.  Wonderful job, Enuffstuff! 🍎💯💗  Thank you for sharing your Toni creations! I will give this back to school outfit an A+ grade!

[on the bay]

She is beautiful @Enufstuff.

One of my favorites and I love how her rosy apple cheeks match her pretty dress and shoes!

Waiting for the school bus the other day there was a young girl about 7 or 8 who got off the bus with the prettiest dress; long golden hair and a beautiful long ribbon with a bow down the back of her hair. She looked like something out of a 1900's English movie. 

I was just thinking the other day how I hoped you would show Toni

again soon!

[lynnie61]

@Enufstuff   I was just thinking it's back to school time.  Our local district started last week!  We normally went back the day after Labor Day.  I hope you had a great summer.  I am so looking forward to Fall though.  The summer just was too hot for me.  The last week has been perfect though, a lot of 70's for highs.  

I love this dress and the brunette Toni.  We wore many Peter Pan collars.  I love the bright red, and her cute red shoes!   Adorable as always, thank you for sharing.  Our family loved starting a new school year.  New notebooks, and fun supplies, and new classes and new routines.  Haha, then the novelty finally wore off.  

[Bonkers1]

@Enufstuff 

What year did Toni come out?  Thank you

[GingerHead]

Gorgeous as always @Enufstuff !!!!

[DSD2]

Toni looks beautiful as always @Enufstuff 

A true vision of loveliness...

[Enufstuff]

@Bonkers1  Toni Dolls made by Ideal, were first sold for Christmas 1949. They were sold until 1958.

  I got my first two Toni Dolls for Christmas 1953. I was six years old.

  It was one of the most popular and most desired dolls at the time.

I read that in 1958 alone, 15 million Toni Doll dresses were

manufactured for that year. The dresses were sold with the doll and no dresses or other clothing were sold separately.

McCall's did produce a pattern for Toni Doll clothes, so

mother's could sew outfits for the dolls.

I only had the two dresses that came with my dolls.

[shoekitty]

@Enufstuff @I just love the clean, crisp look of that petticoat and dress. Oh, how I loved my pertticoats.  Fuller the better!   lol!  Mom woukd starch them , and hang inside out, uoside down to dry on line to get puffier look!   Great job..l I used to sew.  Can't be easy to do those sleeves and collars, yikes

[meallen616]

Thanks for posting, Toni is,