A doll complete with compass. What’s next, a life-sized blow-up doll? Only kidding. We are always glad to see tasteful tributes to our gal.
“The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the United States, Amelia Earhart is known for her tremendous achievements as a pilot. She was a pioneer of women’s rights, believing that women could do anything they set their minds to. The Amelia Earhart doll is dressed in exquisite detail in her pilot’s uniform, complete with a leather jacket and boots, pocket compass and flight helmet. The set includes a working compass you can wear around your neck, her biography, and a fun and educational activity pack.”
Comment from Filo Vance- Van Zandt
I noticed you had a few odd things listed under AE’s line-up… like Google Tees, but had you seen the Amelia shrunken head – advertised a few weeks before 2013 Halloween? Besides being a rather digusting gray and a fair likeness, the ad said they had used an anatomically-correct manufactured skull, real hair and stretched leather skin, going into any further detail would have completely turned my stomach, yet as a kid I always wanted a shrunken head. I guess tastes change! The seller also hinted that it had washed up on some South Seas Island beach… and he sold it for $57 on the second 7-day eBay listing.
There are lots of AE dolls from all over the world, and as you mentioned clothes lines from today designers, although I have no idea when AE’s MACY’S line disappeared. There is also new leather luggage from Singapore and her old stuff is being re-sold here and abroad for 2 to 4X what it cost new.
Someone once made AE & Noonan pliable plastic characters similar to GI-Joes, though I can’t remember if it was a large toy firm, or an up-start.
Back in 1947 my father introduced me to the man who made the first workable ball-point pen… he lived in Philadelphia and was at that time trying to solve the problem of the pen not flowing ink when level or inverted, while simultaneously building the first toy flyable helicopter for the bigest toy manufacturer of the time.
My bet is that you will stir up more than young imaginations, get requests to endorse a number of AE-linked fashions. One many have missed besides the wild color printed scarves she began wearing in the mid-30s is the beret, something she had a special Macy’s high-end hankering to make fashionable. She was also seen in form of pill-box, but it would take a future President’s wife to popularize such. She did a number on flying-helmets, which to this day somehow signaturizes AE, and she almost got into American Optical glamour goggles, had the CEO not be so strait-laced. Altough open cockpit flying has today about the same number of participants as in its Barn-stormer days, ski-goggles have made such fantastic advances that they are the ‘preferred ones’… wider field of vision, less complicated hardware and light-weight. I’ll just bet that someone makes a set called the Amelia, or Earhart style! (Laugh if you like, but popular amongst the stupid & Nazi-helmeted motor-cyclists are RAF and Luftwaffe goggles made cheaply in China! Of course they also produce the Amelia Earhart helmet with ‘goggles’ sewn on sold to Halloween kiddies. My son once dated a Mexican model who wore such for their ad. Kirk’s been into sky-diving for close to 30-years, and I think that ad-photo was the attraction.
Phil