JHD Dolls "The Long Hot Summer" Gloria Sculpt Mizi Doll

January 16, 2025

It's summertime in Hollywood in the 60's.

JHD has released a new line called "Valley of the Dolls", and they are hitting all the right notes for me. They are gorgeous to look at, majorly mid-century, they're in casual wear (which I'm really feeling right now for some reason), and their bodies are getting closer to an actual woman's body size with thighs and hips. This girl is hippy! She's the first JHD doll I've had with the Katie Girl 2.0 body, and I have to say she's built like she could almost fit the organs living humans need inside her body if she were human sized, which is exciting for feminism. And she's sexy! She's much sexier than the rest of the straight bodied fashion dolls I have.

These thighs remind me of my 20's.

The Katie Girl 2.0 body is definitely more bodacious, hippy, and realistic than the fashion model body, and I for one find it much more beautiful. Not to mention that it's less top heavy and therefore less likely to flip head over heels on its stand than those skinny dolls. I'm in. I'd vote for it, if we could change all the doll bodies to this from now on, please? Thank you.

Don't pout, Gloria sculpt.

This girl is not cutting the sexy tension her figure and sexy jumper create with her full-on pout and sexy side eye either. The earrings are just right. The bow is a bit large for my taste and you can see how badly the bump has been treated if you look at her from the side.

The soufflé has fallen.

Sadly, it only looks great from the front as is true with so many other young dolls who start out on the right path but lose their way when it comes to their hair. But I looked into this new unnamed Mizi's eye like grandma taught me, and I saw a vibrant doll soul in there, and she told me what is up with herself and her friends. I pre-ordered this girl from Arizona, and interestingly enough she arrived at my house on the east coast about 5 days before the other 2 girls in the Valley of the Dolls series, which I actually pre-ordered from an east coast seller ironically.

Her accessory is a watch, which turned out to be poetic for her.

This precocious girl, let's call her Susan because for some reason JHD won't name their dolls, goes to the same summer camp every year, and its party time for her and her two best friends, as yet to be named. Susan arrived at camp first this year, cause the church pays for the camp and her parents are poor so the sooner they got rid of her the less they had to feed her. It's the 60's so there's no such thing as cell phones, so little Susan can't constantly message her friends and go on TikTok to check up on what is cool. Consequently, she just stands under the one lamppost in camp next to where the busses pull up and looks at her watch, agonizing.

Maybe she didn't have the time to stop at the nail place?

Her little platform sandals are a shiny pleather that looks good enough to eat. I really do think they're adorable, but it actually took me a minute to get over the fact that she has no pedicure.

"Where's your pedicure, lady!"

Obviously, it's the beginning of the Long Hot Summer, because Susan's skin has not seen the sun for what I can only assume has been a long cold winter. You get the impression that these dolls were intended to convey a very elegant and glamourous era of Hollywood, as the advertising points in that direction, using words like "High glamour" and "classic Hollywood chic". But that's got to be some kind of a misunderstanding because I wouldn't say Susan and her friends are dressed up to walk the red carpet or go to dinner at Spago's with Cary Grant. They just look like they're going to school or to work down at the Fountain Rock diner. They're beautiful the way they are but they are not quite what they're presented as. They look like Elvis's girlfriends from all those Elvis beach movies, that's what they look like. They're casual, so they still represent fashion in America in the 1960's. I mean, I wasn't there so I can't say for sure but according to the footage I've seen, regular girls were dressing and doing their hair sort of similar to these dolls at that time.

"Damn straight we're adorable!"

Susie is sexy though, sometime if I pose her with her hip sticking out a little too far or you can just tell that she's feeling herself, out of nowhere the room darkens and that "bow-Chicka-bow-bow" dirty music starts playing, the cats look at each other funny, and I just have to lay her down in the Dracula pose.

"I've got secret powers..."

She doesn't come with much, just her earrings, shoes, and watch. But she didn't cost much either compared to other fashion dolls and I feel like I love her just as much. So far, she's spent her 5 days at camp sneaking out to the old broken-down dock kids aren't supposed to go to anymore for a smoke and trying unsuccessfully to catch the eye of the one good looking boy who's here at camp early with her. But recently she noticed that he just keeps doodling the name "Kenny" over and over in his notebook. Poor Susan is bored to tears and about to express her angst like angry teen girls did in the 60's on the west coast by following the grateful dead for a few years in a VW bus, or by joining that friendly cult giving away flowers down at the airport, when just in time her friends arrive! Let the camp shenanigans ensue!