Plasty fashion doll clothes

PETRA / PLASTY CLOTHES IDENTIFICATION

Many (cheap) doll clothes were produced in the 1960s and 1970s that had no label and are hence very difficult to identify. Plasty did never use labels for their fashion doll clothes, therefore one can only investigate in old Plasty booklets for identification help. It is sometimes really difficult to identify Petra clothes. I have bought lots from Germany from the 1960s-70s with hundreds of pieces, where i only could identify 10-20 percent of the clothes as Petra- or Barbie items. Among german and american lots from the 1960s/70s I often find dresses with "Hong Kong" labels. However, a big pile of out of such a vintage lot often stays unidentified.

I highly recommend the websites of Linda from United Kingdom and the website of Martha from Denmark, where you can find almost all Petra booklets from 1964-1979 and many photos of Petra vintage fashions. A few catalogues are missing at Linda Clark's website though (1966, 1967, 1969). I am pretty sure that Plasty produced more clothes than were presented in their booklets, cause i own Petra clothes that are made of fabrics that were actually used for other designs, but none of these clothes i can find in a Plasty catalogue. Furthermore Plasty used sometimes different fabrics for the same design. Besides, they used different snaps/buttons. Often you can find simple standard snaps, but there are also thicker snaps on some clothes from the 1970s (i think these thicker snaps were mainly used for outfits of the more expensive "Petra Boutique" fashion-line, but i also have a few non-Boutique outfits that have these thick snaps). All this together makes the identification of Plasty fashion doll cothes everyting else but boring :)

Below some examples: first picture shows the thicker snaps, that are typical for some of the Plasty-produced "Boutique" outfits during the 1970s. The second picture shows standard snaps, that were used for the very most Plasty outfits. The third picture shows a slide-show with Plasty outfits from the 1960s and the last one a slide-show with outfits from the 1970s.

Note: i look for scans or copies of the 1966 and 1967 Petra catalogues. If someone can help me, please get in touch. I need these copies, to add some more informations to this website.

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