Felicity Merriman (doll)

The Felicity Merriman doll was released in Fall 1991.

Felicity Doll
Appearance:
 * Face Mold: Classic Mold
 * Skin: Light
 * Eyes: Green Decal
 * Hair: Auburn; parted at the front, no bangs, three pin curls at the sides
 * Pre Mattel Felicity has less bright green eyes and more red-orange hair.

Meet Outfit
Felicity's meet outfit has had two distinctly different versions. She wore the first version from her debut in 1991 until 2005; it was changed to coincide with the revamp of her collection and the release of her movie, Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.

Rose Garden Gown

 * A low cut off white dress with an era-accurate rose print and elbow length sleeves. The dress has white ruffles at the neck and wide ruffled white sleeves; sleeves also have matching print ruffles. The waistband is curved and the ankle-length skirt is knife-pleated onto the bodice. The skirt has slits in the side so that Felicity can access her pocket. Velcros up the back. When the meet outfit was changed, this was sold separately with the ivory ribbon before being retired.

Shift

 * Rather than underpants like the other girls wore, Felicity wore a historically accurate shift under her clothes. Somewhat shorter than her dresses, it was loose from the neckline down to the hem and in the sleeves. The neckline itself was gathered with elastic. A historically accurate shift would use ribbon or string to gather the neck opening, but presumably elastic was more prudent for a doll's shift.

White stockings

 * White woolen stockings that come up over the knees.

Black Buckle Shoes

 * Black shoes with brass buckles. These shoes were single-lasted, allowing the shoes to be placed on either foot as actual colonial shoes were.

Hair Ribbon

 * A 22" ivory colored satin ribbon with diagonal cut ends.

Coral Necklace

 * A string of coral beads.

Mob Cap

 * White mob cap embellished with a thin dark coral ribbon.

Garters

 * Thin white ribbons of 12 3/4" long and 1/4" with red embroidery of dots, lines and text; the text reads in caps, "Wove with love for Lissie 1774." These tie around her stockings to simulate actual garters needed to hold up stockings. They come with a card with the following text:


 * Mrs. Merriman wove these garters for Felicity. Tie them in a pretty bow around her stockings just above her knees.

Despite the text, the garters can be accurately worn both above and below the knee.

Bit

 * A replica of a colonial bit, worth 12.5 cents. It comes on a card to hold it; the card discusses how it was made (cutting a Spanish dollare into eight pieces), how it was the most popular coin in Virginia, and how later the dollare let to the name of the American dollar.

Hankerchief

 * A 3" square of white cotton trimmed with lace.

Drawstring Purse

 * A red brocade purse with a ribbon drawstring top.

Traveling Gown

 * Felicity's Traveling Gown became the new meet outfit.

Shift

 * The shift was changed to velcro up the back and have a fixed neckline, rather than one that gathered with elastic. Though this added bulk to the shift under the dresses, the fixed neckline shape and size worked better with the necklines of Felicity's dresses.

White stockings

 * The stockings were now made with knit.

Black Buckle Shoes

 * The shoes are now matched to the feet and cannot be swapped left for right.

Hair Ribbon

 * Now a white satin ribbon with V cut ends; about 18" in length.



Accessories
Only two accessories were changed to match the Traveling Gown; the rest remained the same.

Floral Choker

 * The choker with the Traveling Dress replaced the Coral Necklace.

Mob Cap

 * The mob cap that came with the Traveling Dress replaced the red ribboned cap.

Trivia

 * Felicity’s low cut outfits resulted in the body fabric of the dolls being changed from white to skin-colored.