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Finally, a doll that represents a baby of african decent by more than just color! Naima is beautiful, with her rich dark skin and her sweet tongue-y grin, she has larger lips than the other Calin dolls, and a flat, wide nose. It doesn't just stop there, take off her headband and look closely at her hair line and she has tiny little curls molded into the plastic.
Unfortunately like another reviewer mentioned, she does seem to be a little light on the stuffing. She is our fifth calin doll and she is by far the most floppy. When I get a chance I will be slipping the stitches on her back and stuffing some more fiberfill into her. I purchased this one because it was on sale, I wanted the one in the red outfit, though. This outfit did turn out to be cuter in real life.
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we already own a Caucasian 'premier calin' corolle, and I thought it would be fun for my tot to have one of another race. I can't understand the decline in quality. Doll can't sit up unless head is in its lap. Clothes are of thinner material than other doll's.Sending it back! I should have listened to other reviews. I am going to try buying the 'earlier model' of Naima thru ebay and see if it's better quality.
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OK, so I should have updated. I did try to send the doll back, but the company, I think called Kaplan, refused to have it back and insisted on giving a refund, tho I told them it wasn't of unacceptable, merely disappointing quality. no, they said, have the money back and don't return the doll. So we kept it. Well, it's true that it's floppy with thin clothes. But i have to tell you that my daughter LOVES the doll, and I feel a bit weird about that, given that we ended up with it as a freebie! she invents stories about this doll all the time, took it to Europe (and she was only allowed to take one doll with her) etc etc. In general, she spends more time with her, and thinking about her, than with the Caucasian one. As for her flopping over, she just accepts that. And as for her clothes, my daughter prefers to strip the clothes off her dolls anyway, so she never has her clothed, and she doesn't even notice that. So there we have it! I can't say whether I'd buy another , say, as a gift, but clearly the doll has brought a lot of pleasure to my kid.
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