Lammily: she’s a real doll
Just what every little girl wants?
She’s the counter-Barbie, Lammily, a doll with more normal proportions, and optional cellulite, acne, and stretch marks. I kid you not.
But Lammily is kind of cute, too. Her body is supposed to resemble that of the average 19-year-old, which isn’t half bad (an average 50-year-old, on the other hand, might be considerably less adorable):
Here’s Lammily compared to Barbie. Barbie’s a mini Victoria’s Secret model, a classic ectomorph with implants. Lammily’s the girl next door, slightly athletic and mesomorphic, who might even shop in the petite section, like me (or the doll version thereof):
Dolls are traditionally idealized versions of humans—even baby dolls, which are made to look more or less like a real baby, only slightly better (smoother, diaper rashless, etc.). And even Lammily is idealized compared to most real live people. But don’t the little girls (and it’s still almost entirely little girls) who play with dolls want and seek an ideal? What’s up with the acne and the stretch marks—the latter which are usually obtained after pregnancy, by the way? They’re probably there to amuse and/or appeal to the mothers or other grown-up relatives buying the dolls for the little girls.
One thing I do like about Lammily is that she has articulated joints, which allows the child to do stuff like this with her, which seems pretty nifty to me:
Lammily? What kind of a name is that?
Harry:
Named after its creator.
Its named after a pajama boy? How sensitive.
Stretch marks happen anytime you gain weight abruptly,
Men can get them too, happens with body builders.
This doll is cute, I like the realistic look.
molly nh:
I know, but a woman of the size the doll represents, and the age (19 years old), is not at all heavy and would be very very unlikely to have had stretch marks, unless she’d been pregnant.
Nicely proportioned brunettes of just about any age are just alright with me.
But you know Neo with this generation of youngsters we see
so many that are frankly obese compared to when you & I
were growing up. I have seen groups of 3 or 4 girls who are
obviously buddies & often each one has a significant weight
problem, or 3 of the 4, used to be that there was only one
with s problem, maybe that is the current acknowlefgement
of stretchies.
It’s possible for young girls to get minor stretch marks around the hips and breasts around the time of puberty. I speak from experience. It’s nothing like the stretch marks that often go along with pregnancy, but it happens. Fortunately they fade with time.
The War on Barbie and Disney Princesses is actually amusing to me.
I just speak from experience that I have not known one girl in my class – elementary, high school and college – that wanted to be skinny or get breast implants because of a plastic doll they might have owned in their childhood. If they are conscious about the appearance of their body is because they maybe overweight (trying to get back to their high school form) or they’re preparing for a marathon or some endurance contest.
When I became a police officer, I bought my then 7 year old niece, a CY Girl, a 12″ female police officer action figure. My sister would not let my niece have her, as she had a sidearm. My sister called her Stormtrooper Barbie. Anyhow, the doll now lives on top of my computer. CY Girls, except for their bustlines, which are Barbiesque, are very proportional. ( The CY Girls come from Japan, who are very enthusiastic about blondes with D cups. ) My CY is named Marybeth, because she bears a scary likeness to my Cousin Marybeth, even to the ” don’t mess with me ” look like Swedish Viking women can have. My other sister, when she was over with her son, laughed that Marybeth’s feet were just as large as her son’s 12″ GI Joes feet. CYs are fully articulated, and their hands are molded with individual fingers, that can grasp. Modern toys can be very impressive.
I got my first stretch marks at 12, 13. On my thighs. I didn’t get fat. I went from childhood to adolescent in a big growth spurt. Ugh.
I went from being a normal/slenderish child to being a normal/ slenderish adolescent. Much taller, and therefore also much larger on circumference, in order to maintain similar proportions.
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Never been pregnant, slender all throughout teens and twenties, now slightly overweight, alas. I got stretch marks on my thighs during puberty that are still there. They’re barely visible except in certain lighting, but they are there.
My husband on the other hand has also never been pregnant (obviously 🙂 ) but he is somewhat overweight. He has stretch marks on his stomach from weight gain.
And SCOTTthe Badger, that CY Girl sounds awesome 🙂
Just checked out the Lammily site. The doll itself is cute, but the clothing thus far available is, well, lame, compared with Barbie’s. And the clothing is a lot of what makes Barbie such fun for little girls.
Is Lammily intended to function as a safety blanket for ordinary ladies? I wonder what Gammily, the gentlemen’s doll, will resemble. Our modern society seems to find solace in lowered expectations.
Japanese dolls are quite advanced. The industry has been making them for various purposes for quite some time, combining individual artistic talent with mass reproduction.