For items that would be retiring, Mattel added a Last Chance Corner to the website where shoppers could get these items at a discounted price. Here’s what this portion of the website looked like around 2001-2002: Items were separated by product line: The American Girls Collection, American Girl Today, and American Girl Gear. Scroll through […]
Although the American Girl website was available earlier in the 90s, the American Girl web store didn’t debut until late 1999. Here’s the homepage you would be greeted with when visiting the website in late 99: Below is what the store homepage looked like. View the screen capture to see the graphics: The home pages […]
This evening, American Girl’s Facebook shop showed several “new” items that will soon be available for Nicki and Isabel. Two old Pleasant Company outfits will soon be available again directly from AG: The Red Vinyl Jumper and Year 2000 outfits! In addition to a new tee for dolls and girls and a few accessory sets: […]
In 1996, Pleasant Company released girl and doll sized T-shirts to celebrate their 10th anniversary. The shirts were white with black print that said “Proud to be an American Girl” with multi-colored stars around the words and a star dotting the “i”s and “!”. See this advertisement from the back cover of the Holiday 1996 […]
Included with the original Pleasant Company dolls was a letter with a message to the parents. Here is the letter I found with a 1988 Samantha doll: It reads: “A MESSAGE TO PARENTS The American Girls Collection was created to give girls a sense of America’s past and an awareness of the traditions of girlhood […]