Opinions of Cecile and Marie-Grace Items, Part Three

So our first thought of the day is... What are these for?

I mean really? While they are awesome in an anachronistically superheroine I'm-gonna-kick-your-butt kind of way they don't really go with anything in the C and M-G collection.

For instance, this outfit looks better with black shoes or maybe some chestnut brown boots. Why didn't they make chestnut brown side-button boots?

Are you supposed to wear the gold boots with night attire to dress up that generic-looking nightgown?

Or are you supposed to wear them with "The Dress That Shall Not Be Named?"

Which already comes with frou-frou slippers.....

We aren't really complaining about the gold boots. They are awesome and on our wishlist for various fun costuming ideas. They just seem out of place, like an incomplete thought. And we think C and M-G, and many other 1800s/early-1900s dolls, could use a pair of chestnut brown side button boots.

So on the topic of the generic-looking nightgown.... we think Cecile's set is fine and dandy... for those people who like pink....

Oh how we long for that little jacket and those booties to be in any other color..... We even did a color chart to show AG what they could have made (and what we would have bought)... Seriously... we bought Rebecca's night robe just because it was blue.

Toss aside pink AG and look at how much better this teal jacket is!

Or any of these colors.... they are equally awesome... and would look great on Cecile...

Le sigh. We are defeated. Now it is up to you stalwart seamstresses of the world to make this beautiful night jacket in different colors....

Up next.... Overall Marie-Grace's nightgown is fine and we like the slippers that come with the set.

But it does kind of look like it was stained with tea, has been up in the attic too long,

 or is perhaps just a bit dirty.... bizarre...

This brings us to the underthings... the most useful thing AG has made for us in awhile and of course it has to include the color pink. But that's okay with us as they are hidden during use. ;-)

We also wanted to post Jennakitten's edited combo of the Cecile white shirt and Marie-Grace blue skirt... It looks quite pretty!

"The Dress That Shall Not Be Named" remains to be discussed in this post. 

Yes this one....

Which is supposed to go with this thing....

And fairy items that I am not even going to get into...

Why did they choose these awful colors? Why, oh why? Yes, we realize that there are those of you who probably like this dress. This is valid. But it is not for us. Our wishlist will be lacking these items.

Again, we offer up other color schemes for what would have been a beautiful dress (we really love the pattern). Here are light-colored versions, if one must go with pastels... we especially like the bottom right one...

And a silver version that keeps some of the original coloring... but still looks awesome enough for us to buy...

And of course, our preferred jewel tone colors.... 

how awesome would these dresses be?!?!?

Two-tone effect dresses... also totally awesome...

And just some final looks to ponder.... so many beautiful options...

So if there are seamstresses out there that don't mind dealing with shiny/slippery fabrics and can find them easily -- it might be fun to see what you can come up with that looks like "The Dress That Shall Not Be Named" but in different colors....

Stay tuned for our final thoughts on the C and M-G items.... 

Particularly the furniture pieces and the E-catalog....