Taswegian1957

Fashion Doll Friday: Tressy in “Evening Date”


Today’s Friday Girl is Palitoy Tressy wearing an outfit called “Evening Date”. You have probably seen the dress on Tressy before. It is the original dress I had as a child but the rosette decoration is missing and I had of course lost all the accessories. Recently I saw the complete outfit on eBay and although it was expensive I decided to buy it because I always thought it was very glamorous when I was a child. It was the poshest dress any of my fashion dolls owned and the fanciest dress I had seen until I first saw Barbie fashions. I don’t buy so many dolls these days so every now and again I buy a vintage outfit or bits to complete one. The only thing missing from this outfit is the coathanger that came with it.

This outfit was made by Palitoy for the British version of Tressy and I could not find it listed with the American Character Tressy fashions so it may be exclusive to Palitoy.

This is not my Tressy by the way. She is one of Naomi’s and she has the nicest hair of all our Tressy’s I think. I really like the high colour of first issue Tressy don’t you?

http://www.tressydoll.com/palitoy%20boxed%20outfits%20tressy.htm

http://tressydoll.com/american%20character1.htm

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Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

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  2. She looks in great condition and what a beautiful outfit. I don’t remember it at all sadly. The ones I had were the green/ blue check city outfit with the bag and umbrella, and the ski outfit which was a favourite but the trousers were not hard wearing. I’ve still got the jumper and the green suit.

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    • I think I appreciate Tressy much more now than I did as a child. I preferred Sindy and Tammy then and while I still do I appreciate the excellent face painting of the original AC and Palitoy Tressy’s so much more now.

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  4. So yesterday on a facebook ,Tressy doll and family group someone said Mattel owns the rights to Tressy and Tammy.they said they discovered it while working on a doll project with Tonner.

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