AG's Merry and Bright Outfit

Hola! We are trying to do a mix of handmade items as well as AG stuff on the blog -- but we really haven't been buying a lot of AG stuff lately. Very few of the new MyAG outfits have been calling to us. So we'll mostly have to do opinion posts for the items released recently. But first we'll discuss what we have purchased....

For today's post we'll look at the MyAG holiday Merry and Bright Outfit that was released at the end of August. Our initial impression was: We already have this outfit, twice... 2008's Scarlet and Snow outfit and 2010's Ruby and Ribbon Outfit....... yeah. But it was still calling out to us because it is red (we like bold colors) and if we didn't get at least one holiday outfit from AG it would be the first time in many years that we didn't. :'(

The Frosty Party Outfit wasn't really saying "Buy Me! Buy Me!" We don't really like the sweater and fancy skirt combination. In our opinion they'd probably look better separately but we really didn't feel like spending the money to find out. We'd have preferred a blue sweater without the embroidery and a skirt that doesn't look like it was ripped off the 2009 Fancy Flower Outfit. Also the whole color scheme is kinda blah to us. Oh well.

So we ordered the Merry and Bright Outfit and its accessory set. We like the knit capelet and mittens very much and we highly recommend them. And we like the snowflake pin accents on the capelet and dress-- just so you know, they are sewn-on and not easily removed. The snow globe is pretty cute -- but doesn't have the liquid inside it -- just glitter, in case you wanted to know that, haha.

Overall, we like the red dress, but it is a little odd. The design of the top makes it look like a fancy red tee shirt that was sewn onto the bottom of a prom dress. We would have gone with a sweetheart neckline to make the top of the dress look more posh.... see photoshop below....

And AG's choice of red velvet on the top kind of makes it look a bit cheesy and childish. That is our overall complaint for the recent MyAG releases -- many outfits look like clothing for kids younger than nine or ten. Which is fine if your dolls like that kind of clothing. But in general our dolls don't -- hence, why we don't own things like the 2009 Sparkly Plum Outfit.

Anyways, Stella was asked to model the Merry and Bright outfit for us because she looks the most different from the blonde-haired blue-eyed doll that models it on the website, so you can see her pics below.

Also, the headband came with this huge tag that we had to cut off. People have talked about this on the boards and apparently many items have this tag now, including the dolls. So we included some pics of the tag before we cut it off. We weren't sure if we liked the headband, but once it was in Stella's dark hair we thought it looked really pretty.

Here are two more shots with and without the capelet and mittens and 

then a slideshow with detail shots of everything....

Thanks for visiting us today! 
Let us know if you have any questions about this outfit and/or the accessories!
Stay tuned for our next post -- Kanani's blue party dress modeled by Maple!