"Sugar North" Constance Madssen by Integrity Toys

January, 9, 2025

"Agent Sugah North, reporting for duty baby."

I won this secret agent in another lottery, and lest you think I'm a big gambler, you don't risk anything but disappointment when you enter a lottery for a doll. Thankfully IT doesn't require money to enter, just clicking a button on a webpage and a little luck. I am a big East 59th collector, they're easy to get so I have lots of them and full collections of them too since they don't sell out. I guess people aren't into the '50's, or mid-century, or mod, or whatever you call it, as much. But boy I am. I'm into it. I'd do my whole house in it. Well, a bathroom. I'd definitely do a bathroom. I saw these little pink soapstone fish this person bought at a flea market for 25 cents or something crazy and they redid their whole bathroom based on them, and it ended up looking so incredible!

"Can we keep it together here please?"

Sorry Constance, sorry reader, that was completely and totally off topic! Back to the matter at hand. My first thought upon looking at this lovely Constance's face was "Oh isn't she square jawed!" which isn't the reaction you want, I would say, as a fashion model. But I don't usually feel this way about her, and I think you can blame it on the continuous cinnamon roll of blonde hair surrounding her head right at jaw level, which definitely accentuates the natural tendency of her jaw to be a little boxy.

This girl always got the best ice.

Connie usually only makes an appearance if there's big ice involved see, and that's 50's slang for jewelry. This offering doesn't disappoint with big beautiful quadra pearl bejeweled earrings and matching brooch.

A decolletage so fair...

She has the same four pearl - jewel combo on a silver cuff bracelet as well.

Of course, a cuff.

My favorite of her accessories is her silver gun with the pearl handle. I don't know where exactly I got the idea that gunslinging women (and girl bunnies) in the wild west carried pearl handled revolvers discreetly in their purses for self-protection. Be it in a dusty saloon in the old west or on a slow movin' riverboat down south. It has to be something I got from Warner Brothers cartoons and watching Davy Crockett as a kid or something, but I still think a woman carrying a concealed pearl handled revolver in the olden days is so clever. No one expects the (secret genius) girl to be packing, right?

"She had a pearl handled six shooter!"

Constance is swathed in silver from head to toe, quite literally. She only shows her face if there's a big score, that's why she's here and her feet are in pure silver shoes that just couldn't be cuter.

Cute li'l East 59th feet...

The material of Constance's dress is substantial, it's a thin silver and especially pale aqua brocade, lined with matching aqua satin. The quality on East 59th dolls is generally high I've found, and I would expect nothing less from one by now. It's very extremely highly tailored to the dolls' tiny proportions, with two deadly darts at the front and two more at the back to cinch it in as tight as can be and make the most hourglass of shapes.

Don't breathe, don't you dare finish that pork chop Constance...

She is a convention doll so I am not sure of Constance's, SUGAR's role in the plot to... make Dasha a full cyborg so she can live forever as a machine? Is that the evil plot the dolls were trying to stop / advance in the convention story? I'll bet she's trying to stop the evil plot with her campy gun and cigarette holder, right? I mean no one wearing that pale powdery blue can be evil, that's a heaven color.

She may be in Las Vegas with Sammy Davis Jr. worshipping the devil, but she's an angel.

I guess I ultimately do prefer Constance with darker hair although I'm not sure if maybe it's just the hairstyle I'm not feeling here. I feel like this hairstyle was in actuality popular with real women in the early and midcentury in the west, like I've seen pictures of my mom as a teenager and my grandmother as an adult with this hair and both looking very square jawed (just kidding). Not to mention all the footage we know exists of Patty Duke.

Patty Duke - huge champion of the cinnamon roll.

I don't know how it was accomplished but I can only guess giant and painful to sleep on rollers. Overall, she's a beautiful doll. I have a special feeling for her feminine little silver six shooter. The cigarette holder for her fingers is so campy and cute, she's just too charming not to love.

"Listen, I only smoke when I'm on a case."

Her fur is incredibly soft, her dress impeccable, her shoes a treat. Altogether I'd say this doll is an elegant smash but I'm a big East 59th Fan. I would say if you're a fan too and have affordable access to her, pick up this Constance, "Agave East". Oh sorry "Sugar North", based on the character of Honey West who rose to real prominence on Broadway and in vaudeville, theater, records and radio in the 1910's - 1930's which is technically 20 - 40 years before Constance's time in the 1950's. Maybe not two references that are current with each other but certainly Honey West was well known by the 50's. This Con's still an absolute pleasure to have at home, just make sure you put out the good China. And an ashtray, if you still have one somewhere.