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Pedigree Sindy Doll 1963+
The Sindy doll is the British United Kingdom's fashion doll equivalent of the Barbie doll of the USA. Marketed as "The Doll You Love To Dress!" She looks similar to Ideals Tammy doll, in fact Pedigree got licensing permission to copy her as long as they changed the dolls name. The first dolls have short usually brunette hair, sorta a bubble-cut style, painted eyelashes, she's jointed at the neck, shoulders and hips. Sold boxed and wearing "The Weekenders" outfit consisting of a red, white and blue jersey pullover top, jeans and white vinyl shoes.
She has lots of fashions that were labeled with a paper tag until 1984, then they went to a fabric tag. The earlier tags being paper were easily destroyed. She has a boyfriend Paul introduced in 1965, a sister Patch in 1966 and of course no fashion girl is complete without houses, cars and more to accessorize her lifestyle.
In 1968 Sindy got an updated look with real eyelashes, a twist n' turn waist, side parted hair style in several different hair colors. In 1969 a new see through acetate box was introduced.
In 1978-1979 Louis Marx in the USA manufactured Sindy for the American market and then in 1986 the rights were sold to Hasbro when Pedigree went bankrupt. In the 1990's Mattel brought a lawsuit against Hasbro as they had redesigned her face and Mattel felt it was too similar to their Barbie doll, as such, she was no longer sold in the USA. Vivid Imaginations is still selling Sindy products in Britain today. Photo Shown: A later Sindy doll in a diorama created by David Ganson Stevens from Edinburgh, Scotland. Thank you David, for sharing your photo, it's very imaginative.
There is a Sindy book by Colette Mansell - The History of Sindy, Britain's Top Teenage Doll 1963-1994. Buy, Collect, Sell or get pricing values worth for vintage Sindy dolls, use ebay sold listings |
