Victoire Roux: Les Silhouettes Collection “Champs-Élysées” /2012 76005 – (NRFB)

Description

NEVER REMOVED FROM BOX. Integrity Toys introduced the doll character Victoire Roux as a post-WWII widely traveled French model who played a huge role in rejuvenating upscale style in the fashion scene. This Victoire is styled to represent late 1940’s French couture that might have been worn while visiting Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris’s iconic, tree-lined avenue stretching from the east end’s Place de la Concorde to the west end’s Arc de Triomphe, known for luxury shopping, theaters, cafés, and major events. This Victoire has sultry blue eyes with applied lashes and soft dark reddish lip color. Her short reddish straight hair is styled in a side part with two large spiral curls in front and side, with the bulk of her hair loosely secured at the back of her neck. She comes brand new in box, never removed. Her body style is similar in height and proportion to Dynamite Girls and Poppy Parker, but with a slightly larger bust. She can wear many fashions styled for Silkstone, as well as fashions for a variety of other dolls, especially early Fashion Royalty. Her clothing and accessories include:

• COAT – Rich pink lightweight unstructured Trico-satin slip-on swing coat has a lovely texture that flows and drapes softly around her dress underneath.
• DRESS – Black satin-taffeta strapless dress adorned with beautifully colorful embroidered butterflies has a fitted bodice and and a large pink fabric flower attached to the front waist. The skirt portion has an outer A-line skirt that folds in and attaches to a knee-length pencil skirt. This rather complicated structure creates the illusion of an overskirt that parts in front.
• LEGWEAR – Nude pantyhose.
• SHOES – Leatherette strap-heel pumps have pink insoles.
• HAT – Black beaded fascinator hat is shaped like a sleep mask and sits over the top of doll’s head. (May have a fastener mechanism not obvious while inside package. The hat plastic package has come loose inside box.)
• GLOVES – Black fabric gloves end just under elbows. (Note these are “mitten-style” gloves that slip over the doll’s hands – not slip-on sleeves designed for use with removable painted hands.)
• JEWELRY – Doll is wearing ruby stud earrings on metal posts. Also included is a “stick-pin” brooch designed for the pin to slide into fabric to hold brooch in place. Manufacturer photos suggest placement of brooch on left upper front shoulder area of coat. (CAUTION: Using pin brooch may leave tiny holes in fabric, so use only with the intent for the brooch to remain permanently pinned to the fabric.)
• STAND – Stand has solid Lucite base and metal telescoping stem with two interchangeable supports – a curved saddle and an underarm bent-“U”.
• PACKAGING – NRFB packaging includes the original retail box in great shape, and outer double-wall cardboard factory shipper. Retail box has a gloss white lift-off lid with the “FR” logo stamped in gold. A slip-off paperboard sleeve bears the “Les Silhouettes” branding. The box bottom is gloss black. Doll is secured inside inner box with white ribbons, and all accessories are taped inside along the box inner edges. (The plastic-packaged hat has come loose and is included inside.) The stand base is secured behind the doll’s legs, and the stem and supports are secured inside the left-face corner of the inner box. The doll will come NRFB inside the retail box wrapped in a clear cellophane sleeve inside the original shipper. If shipped separately, the shipper will be bubbled wrapped and covered with poly-bagging.

This lovely lady has a beautifully tailored period fashion ensemble and will make a great addition to any curated doll collection.

~SOLD ON EBAY