This is where I should have went down to Toys'r us, and bought one of those Barbie fashion 2-packs. Except that they had sold out of those. When the 2016 fashion packs hit the shelves earlier this year, I decided to wait instead of buying them right away. I was interested in 3 out of the 4 available, but I was not really sure about them. I was mostley interested in 1 outfit in each of the packs, and I try not buy fashion packs just for 1 outfit. But the fashion packs slowly sold out during spring, I told myself they would restock, but they never did. Im a little annoyed at myself, that I missed out on those fashion packs. Especially because I have done the sam ething before, do I never learn?
Well its more that teh fashion packs here in denmark is kinda exspensive, they cost 3 times as much as in USA. And I keep hoping for a chance to snatch them up as a lower price, but they allways sell out before they get marked down.
Annyways
I looked for fashion packs on ebay, and I was lucky to find a pack that I REALLY wanted. It was sold by an eropean seller, so the shipping was affordable and I didnt have to worry about customs. all in all I actually payed less than I would have, in a danish store.
I actually wanted this "pretty in pastels" fashion pack, since I saw promo pictures of it late ion 2015. But it was not one of the 4 fashion packs to reach Denmark. When I saw it on ebay I thought the outfit on the left would be perfect for Kira, since its both girly and casual. I allso think yellow is her color, and she looks nice in pastels.
The rumper is a verry nice light blue color, with light yellow stiching. The legholes are pretty wide and short, they just barely cover Kiras thigh joints. The rumper has a nice colar, its a little crooked, but i dont really mind that.
The pattern are pretty white daisys with blue and yellow in the middle, it allmost makes it looks like they are green in the middle.
Thankfully the nice pattern goes all the way around, it seems like Mattel totally stopped doing the pattern half with these fashion packs. She has a bare back, and the rumper opends with welcro at the neck, Despite the welcro opening being so small, it was verry easy to dress my doll in it.
This yellow cardigan type shirt, is verry unique looking. The sleves are 3/4 lengh, and made of a verry soft knit material. While the front is made of this verry pretty lace like material, the pattern in the material is flowers and leaves.
I think the cardican match the rumper perfectly.
The dress has a light pink bodice with white stiching, in a knit like material. It has a sweetheart neckline, and short sleves. The sleves has a tendensy to slide a bit off the shoulders.
The skirt is of a shiny material, at first I thought it would be stiff, but its actually soft. The skirt has purple stiching, that match the purple waistband.
The pattern is checkered and in 3 different colors, first blue, then purple and then pink. As the pattern changes colors, the squares in the pattern becomes smaller. i really like this pattern, its verry interesting and the colors work so well together.
The lovely pattern goes all the way around the skirt. The dress opens with welcro, in the bodice.
Lets take a look the the accessories. The set came with a pair of shoes and one bag. At first I didnt think much about it, but when I looked at other fashion packs online, I noticed that some of them have 2 accesories. I think 2 accesories and 1 pair of shoes is pretty fair, so I kinda feel like something is missing here. The fashion pack I bought in 2014, even had two pair opf shoes and 2 accesories.
It seems like half of the current fashion packs have two accesory, and the other half dont. I find that a bit annoying.
The shoes are short flat sneaker, that are a verry nice lavender color. They have alot of molded details, and a slit in teh back. The slit is pretty usefull, since the sneakers are made of hard plastic.
I really like these sneakers, they are both casual and pretty.
The bag is a small purse, with a long strap. Its the smale color as the shoes, so they match verry nicely.
Kira paired up the rumper and cardigan, with the shoes and purse. It looks nice, but somehow the purple color dosent quite match. I wonder if it would have been better if the accesories was a light blue color, I bet that would match both outfits verry well.
The match is pretty perfect with the dress though. Its a cute but casual outfit, and the colors actually looked pretty good on Michelle.
But I allways intended the dress to go to my liv doll Rose. Its really cute on her, and its totally her style. She accessorized with a white heart necklace, and her favorite pair of earings. I had trouble figuring out what shoes woud match though, which surprised me. It turns out that her two pair of pink shoes, are too dark for this pastel dress. But luckly I had these white maryjanes, and they look okay with the dress.
Kira is verry happy with her new outfit, now she have something of her own, and she is ready for some fun in the sun. I myself is pretty pleased with this fashion pack.
