*In Store Report* Historical Collection - AGP Houston

Love the historical collection.

*REVIEW* BF Kit's Christmas Dress

Here is Kit's dress for Christmas which is now different from the original one worn in the 1st run of AG Kit books. This is a Beforever dress. Book still references older dress. Her current dress has a thick fabric that is nice sturdy quality. 
 

Stitching is beautiful and all the pleats are darling, perfect for this dress. Velcro in the back and on shoes. The shoes are very hard to get on without snagging stockings. I prefer that AG keep stockings and get rid of velcro on shoes if I had to choose one over the other. Dress fits nicely on Kit. Not too snug and my Kit doll is pretty wide in the waste and torso. Stockings are not like long socks like the original outfit they are actual stockings! Similar to Samantha's stockings in her collection if you are counting or interested in more of these items like I am.

Bow is cute, very pretty and made of nice material not flimsy like the polka dot bow prior to this outfit. 

Monkey is a smaller version of a sock monkey fabric and all the same as a real one that you'll see in toy stores now. Very nice quality and the bow is a nice touch. 

The stocking is so well stitched together and the design is a nice wink to the 1930s. I have seen this design in older store catalogs from the 1930s. If you watch old movies it is something you would see in Miracle on 34th Street. 

I love this outfit and it is so well made. Every thing about it is gorgeous even the circular plastic belt buckle refuses to look cheap next to all of the beautiful features this outfit offers. Outfit and stocking is by far my favorite Beforever items thus far in Kit's collection. Hope they keep it up 2018!

 Red dress wrinkles easily and new Christmas dress does not. Both dresses are iconic Kit!

Collectors and parents might want to buy extra velcro from craft store to help with possible snagging. Place a strip of velcro over dress velcro to prevent any runs in stockings. You want this outfit to last for years to come. It is beautiful and worth it!
-Ticia

*REVIEW* Kit Kittredge Book Series

I accidentally ended up receiving a Kit doll early on with original meet outfit and later bought a Beforever Kit. I really love Kit and her story. It is a tale of perseverance and coping with hard times which everyone will experience at points in their life. Very well written these books. I loved all her books so much that I bought the book collection housed in this one book full of her wonderful stories. This is a great book to have if you love the Kit stories or own a Kit doll.

With Beforever Kit this book offers pictures. I know I miss the pictures.

Each section tells the iconic stories that we associate with the original order of AG character books. 

What I love about this book is that it has the illustrations and houses all the looking back sections of each original book of Kit Kittredge. 

-Ticia

*REVIEW* BF Kit Kittredge 16-Piece Set - Costco

   

I have wanted Kit Kittredge for quite some time.  Costco had a good price on Kit and Accessories, so naturally, I bought her.  I would have liked to have had the earlier Kit, but this is the Beforever Kit.

Previously, the only Kit items I had were her desk, chair and her candy making kit.  The Costco Set contained Kit in her Meet Dress and underwear, strappy scarlet shoes and a red barrette, Reporter Dress and Vest, White Mary Jane shoes, green Barrette, and a beautiful red cardigan that really buttons up. 

 

 

 

This set also contains Kit's Reporter Set consisting of an accordion-style camera that really opens and closes, a camera case, an empty box of Kodak film, a flip top journal for taking notes, a faux fountain pen with Kit's name on it (the lid comes off the pen).

 

 

It also contains a fabric pouch to carry her notebook with a little pocket to hold her pen, a bundle of mini replica 1930s Cincinnati Newspapers.  It does not contain the picture stickers that her original set had.  This set contains her white felt cloche hat with red ribbon trim and bow.  It does not contain her cuff bracelet, nor her purse. 

 

 

 Included in this set is Kit's paperback book, "Read All About IT".    This set sells for $129.99 at Costco.  My Costco did not have it, so I asked them to find out which Costco had it and went there.  I am very satisfied with this set, although I thought Kit's hair would be very easy to fix since it was short.  But I find myself thinking that if it was just a wee bit shorter it would lay better.  Let me tell you, this was the EASIEST unpackaging ever.  You just take the two boxes out of the big box, take the elastic off the doll's neck and the rubber bands off of her ankles and she's free.  For the other accessories, you just lift off the plastic cover and nothing is secured except the white Mary Janes,  snip one thread and they are free!

 

-Linda