Pear Shaped Trend....how do you feel?

Not a fan. I like more realistic dolls, and all the pear shaped ones I've seen are too exaggerated for my taste.

 

I love them for the uniqueness they bring to the hobby. I love to see what people do with them and how creative people can be given different mediums. Will I ever own one? Who knows! I find myself drawn more and more to the unique side of bjd and farther away from the norm... I just ordered a Rosette Pure because of the long disproportionate legs. I dont have a leg "fetish", I just like how you can style them and how different they can look!

 

I like pear shaped dolls a lot. I have a DC girl and an Angelsdoll's body and they're both bottom heavy. I think they're pretty! Of course it's totally subjective. It all comes down to personal tastes.

 

I'm not really interested in dolls with this shape, although I can tell they're pretty popular at the moment. I think it's nice to see the way that different trends go around. It adds more variety.

My husband describes these pear-shaped dolls as having "hips like a Mewtwo." XD

 

I love the pear shaped dolls. I have 2 Leekeworld and adore them. I'm like you Lovelily I have quite a few of the norm and now find myself being drawn to the unusual and unique dolls

 

I love looking at them, but I don't think I would ever buy one. They just wouldn't fit in with my other dolls.

I really do love stylized proportions though. I'm a huge fan of doll chateau. Their kid bodies are so super thin and beautifully unrealistic. I have considered adding one of those to my group, to increase diversity a little.

 

I posted here a while back, saying that I was considering adding a pear-shaped doll to my collection... the one I chose just arrived, and I'm absolutely thrilled with her and her "unique" (compared to the rest of my dolls) shape, and how she does ultimately fit with the rest even with her different structure. I'm still very pleased that there's variety in doll body shapes, and while pear-shaped may not be for everyone, neither are all the other trends in dolls.

And for those who keep bringing it up... it's not a "fetish" or "sexual" to have a larger bottom. I've known plenty of people who are a similar shape to these dolls, far more than I've known who have the large tracts of land that some lines feature. It's a shape that does exist among real people, so why not have a somewhat-stylized version of it in our dolls?

 

I'm probably going to be in the minority here but I HATE it. I think those Doll Chateau dolls are hideous and very alien like. I realize that most dolls aren't perfectly proportioned but I'd at least like my doll to look somewhat human. I'm sorry to those who love them, I've just never ever seen one that I thought was even remotely attractive. I hope not all companies go that route. I'd have a sad.

 

Thank you, skyealloway, for crystallizing the problem I have with Doll Chateau in particular and sexually exaggerated female dolls in general. I don't have time to Google the others, but ever since I first saw the DC dolls they've disturbed me in a way I couldn't articulate until now.

Aesthetically, I prefer dolls proportional, mature, and realistic. My doll's DDII body doesn't fit that aesthetic, but I find her wasp waist and flat butt unappealing as well as annoyingly hard to dress. I still enjoy my doll, but if I decide to get her a new body, I want a more balanced shape.

I do like some of the overtly sexual dolls, like the Iplehouse ladies, because they seem to own their sexuality with confidence. They look capable, powerful even. I draw the line at the overinflated breasts some BJDs sport, but they don’t provoke me as much as DC.

With their emaciated limbs and swollen pelvises, the DC dolls look fragile, ineffectual, and vulnerable, with their entire beings centering around their reproductive areas. Aesthetically I find this uninteresting, but culturally it repulses me. To me it diminishes the female figure to little more than a womb with spindly decorations. I don't have anything to say about the boy dolls because I didn't get past the few girls I saw.

You can dismiss me if you like with “They’re just dolls!” but dolls can exert influence over cultural viewpoints just as magazines and TV shows do, particularly if these venues bombard us with the same images constantly. I don't know about the other examples offered earlier in the thread, but I want nothing to do with the DC dolls for what they represent and nothing to do with the company that glamorizes that disturbing representation.

 

I'm all over for the female silhouettes and i found the pear shape prettier than the normal hour glass simply because of the flow of the curve is more elegant looking for me. the bottom heavy look also make the doll look more grounded as i found females dolls that are top heavy looks like they are about to fall over,,,I own two dollzones and their pear shaped female body is amazing with great posting. the long legs looks great naked or covered in a long elegant skirt. To be honest, i wouldnt mind to stick all my doll heads on dollzone's large hipped female bodies but resin match...sigh

I also found a child like innocence in them! A lot of people posting earlier seem to find the larger hips as "sexualization" . I found it child like to be honest because of the reduction of breasts comparing to the hip. I'm gonna be frank that i HATE dolls with large boobs, they disturbs me and i found them way more sexualized than large hips. Large hips associate me with motherly nature while boobs with the female sexuality.

But it all ends up in personal prefrence, personally I'm really strict on how a doll's bodily aesthetic should look and I will probably never, get a girl doll that is not pear shaped. That just seems to be the actual female shape that exist in this world.

 

I like the fact that they appeal to others and provide more options for them, but I could never have one myself. They just seem so hard to dress, and on top of that, I prefer more realistically shaped dolls. The bottom-heaviness is usually too exaggerated, at least for me.

 

I think they are aesthetically pleasing, like an elegant vase - they remind me very much of a vase shape, rather than anything sexually exaggerated. But they are a pain to dress I bet! I have a slightly hippy/tiny chested dollzone 1/4 girl, and she's elegant but more of a 'cartoon' character than human, which has its own charm if you like that kind of thing - They are not going to appeal to everyone though, especially if you want 'miniature humans' for realistic photoshoots. She is easy to dress though in spite of her shape - wears boy's pants easily, although I'm guessing girl's pants wouldn't fit her hips as well?

 

Dollzone's new strain of winged girls seem to have quite wide hips. I really like it, actually, because I'm a pear shape myself, with REALLY wide hips. Like, so wide, sometimes I can't wear certain skirts because they just won't go over my hips but when they do are too big to sit properly on my waist....! So I think it's nice that there's a trend like this.

 

Since I've been gone the last couple of years I'm just discovering the whole big pear shape trend.
And while I do like looking at DC pictures and user photographs out of morbid curiosity, I would never consider getting this type of doll as they looks very strange and relatively unappealing to me. I think what disturbs me most is the absence of boobs to go with super large hips...I wouldn't mind getting a full-hipped girl if she also had some kind of chest and tummy to go with it.
I think they just don't fit into my doll aesthetic criteria...
But I find pictures to be pretty and interesting to look at, to see how people customize them

 

I love them, especially the Leeke girls. I have a girlfriend who is shaped like that, tiny shoulders and boobs and tiny waist with very wide hips, and I think she looks gorgeous. I'm all shoulders and bust, with no hips, so I'm a bit jealous, but love the diversity in people and dolls alike.

 

This made me laugh. I love a Monty Python reference in the morning.

I think the pear-shaped dolls are fantastic, and I'd really like to own one someday! I'm looking forward to seeing more shapely dolls crop up.

 

In general, it's not a style I'm a big fan of. I tend to like more proportional bodies, and if I want them to be more stylized, I want it to be proportionally stylized, long limbs with a thin body, or big hips with a big bust. Actually, in terms of curvy dolls, I prefer the hips to be rounder with not QUITE to large a bust, but still, in those cases it has to look like it'd at least be physically possible for a human to look like. ( Lookin' at you, Iplehouse...)

 

I think the trend is great. The pear shape is soooo cute when done right
I'm actually playing with the idea of trying to make my own pear shaped girl at some point, just because I like that it's different but still pretty (if done right). But I've never sculpted a doll before, so I'm not expecting much. Just thought it would be a funny challenge ;D

 

I really love it, as its interesting to design clothes that look good with this shape, its important to accentuate it, make the best out of it

 

the mikhaila bodies are one of my favorites ever o-o;; I am absolutely loving this trend, they just look so cute and different, i dont know what it is about them but they're just too too cute. And I love all of doll chateau's dolls, I suppose maybe that's what draws me to them, their silhouettes are way different than that of a "normal" doll.. I guess they just look more real and feminine that way to me