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In the years of 1960 through 1980 the Vogue Doll Company produced a baby doll called "Ginny Baby."

I especially like the Vogue Ginny Baby dolls. I have several of them in my Vogue collection (pictures available on the site). Two of my collection were produced in the year of 1965 and are called The Vogue Ginny Baby Doll. Each has their original outfits of which are different. Both wear little hats. They are not the drink/wet or the dry/nurser versions.

The Vogue Doll Company also produced the Ginny Baby doll throughout these years that were drink/wet dolls and some were dry/nurser (produced in 1962 and 1963). I do have one example pictured on the site of a drink/wet Ginny Baby in her original, red and tagged outfit.

The Vogue Ginny Baby dolls came in many different sizes. The sizes I have as examples are all three 13 inches tall.

A doll called Vogue Angel Baby produced only in the years of 1964 through 1968 has a slightly different face from the others I have and stands 14 inches tall.

The smallest of these dolls was 8 inches, and an example is Ginny's sister, Ginnette in this size. Other sizes were 13", 14", 16" and 25" versions. Not all these sizes were available every year.

All of my Vogue Ginny Baby Dolls have the rooted hair; however, some of these dolls were made with painted hair instead.

Most of them are usually marked on the back of the neck "Ginny Baby," or "Vogue."

You can find the most information, in my opinion, about the Vogue Ginny Dolls in the Vogue Encyclopedia by Izen/Stover. In this book, it states the company released no information in some of the years these dolls were produced. This as it is makes it more difficult to identify these dolls with perfection.

Most clothing produced by the Vogue Doll Company is tagged on an inside seam. Identification of authentic Vogue clothing is a fairly easy task since this seems to be very consistent throughout the years the Vogue doll clothing was produced.

The Vogue Ginny Dolls were very popular throughout the 1960s; however, Mattel's Barbie began to dominate the doll market and quickly became a much more popular line of dolls. The walking, talking crawling, singing, dancing, skating dolls also began to gain great popularity for the baby boomer generation. As a child, I had the Barbie, but not any of the Vogue Ginny Baby dolls. Discovering the Vogue Ginny Baby dolls has been an extra little delight for me. Of course, like my Chatty Cathy, all my Barbie dolls got lost somewhere in childhood moves. It is just as much fun though recollecting them.

The Vogue Littlest Angels dolls were also produced in the 1960s wearing different tagged Vogue outfits. They each stand about 15" tall and have moveable limbs and sleep eyes. Many of them have long braided blonde hair. Vogue purchased the rights to this doll from the Arranbee Doll Company in the late 1950s and then introduced them in their early 1960s catalogs. Some of the earlier versions are marked with the R&B mark, and some stand 11" rather than the 15" I have in my collection. There was also a black version of the Littlest Angel Doll. Many of them were sold with a metal doll trunk. A really cute, original outfit for the Littlest Angel Doll was a red velveteen pant suit.

Source: Vogue Encyclopedia by Izen/Stover

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