She's wearing a darling costume! It's a one piece romper, with reddish pink and white checkered puffed sleeve blouse with lace trimmed sleeves with attached blue bottom that has elastic at the leg openings. That fabric matches the fabric on the blue pinafore dress with white rick-rack trim that she wears over the romper. The tag is nice and bright. Never laundered - spotless and stiff like new! She also has her rare original top stitched, fuzzy bottom side-snap pink shoes. These shoes I read were made only in 1953. She also wears her original socks. She has been box stored since her creation - never displayed.
These were purchased from a Madame Alexander doll dealer's estate. The dealer had a Madame Alexander store. She had 1000's of Madame Alexander dolls from the 1940's through the 1970's. She had to close her store after a long illness. Eventually the storefront was sold and the contents of her entire store was locked away in a climate control storage for a few decades. Some of the boxes that matched up with the dolls were mixed up in the move. When the dealer passed, her estate was sold including the entire contents of the storage unit. While this is an early Wendy-Kins box it might not be her exact box she left the factory in. I simply am unsure of that and not sure what model number she is.
The box has pink paper and an early catalogue/brochure featuring Southern Belle and other formal dressed Alexander-Kins dolls. The brochure is mint.
This doll is as pristine as the day she was made. She is completely all original, never touched up and she has the rosiest most adorable cheeks of any I've seen. She's flawless. Her condition and her hang tag are mint. She's Amazing!