The age of your dolls?

For me it kinda depends on the sculpt and body type. For the most part I agree with the "standard" ages for each size, except when the body/sculpt for that size looks exceptionally mature or very immature. I've seen some SDs that look like they should be kids, and there are some mini dolls (like the MNFs from Fairyland) that have body types better suited for teens/adults.

My only doll at the moment is an Asleep Eidolon Solstice and she's SD size. While she does have a pretty childish face, I'd put her in her teens.

 

I'm with peppercrushes; I usually gauge my girls' ages by their body types. And even though all of my dolls are under 30cm their ages are fairly varied. My 27cm Resinsoul/Bobobie girls are tweenagers up to their early teens while my two Littlefees are kids, around 7-9 years old. My two Pukifees are 5 years old while my RS Yu is 4.

 

Given the huge range in maturity that the scupts and bodies - in all sizes - can portray, I don't connect a particular size with an age. My Sasara (littlefee soo dark elf) looks to me to be quite mature so that even though her body is kid-like, she can look adult. Elf-adult, not human, but then she is an elf to me. My Jelena (iplehouse KID) can look about 12ish next to a mature sculpt MSD, or about 4-5 next to a SD.

It is more about the proportions of the body and head, the sculpting of same, the clothes and sometimes, which other doll is next to them. Relative size, not absolute size. But I will note that if a doll has a substantial bust, I will not call them a child. Maybe an older teen (17+) if their face looks young but never a child. Children do not have the bodies of sexually mature women and it bothers me on a visceral level if someone calls such a body 'child', no matter what size.

 

The over all "maturity" of the doll's face and body determine age range for me. I don't have age "restrictions" based on the height of the doll. That's why I consider my Iple mini girl and my Volks SD girls about the same age. Each doll looks like a believable example of a typical tween-teenaged girl to me. Some minis look like tiny adults, some SD sizes look childish. It depends.

 

It depends on the doll, really. I have big kids and little adults, it really depends on the character and the sculpt. Body type is pretty important to deciding age and so is the face sculpt. I also consider species as a factor.

 

My Volks Dollfie Dream and Dollfie Dream Dynamite are at least early 20s.

My Dollmore Model Doll is squarely mid-20s.

My Iplehouse JID doll is 10 or younger.

I never really established ages for any of them, but those are the vague estimations I like to play with.

I don't know if I'll ever get an SD10. I would have to have her really made up to look mature to even come close to fitting in with my other dolls. I consider all of my ABJDs to be 1/3 scale, but to have a baseline 10 year old girl alongside 20-something Dollfie Dreams at the same height would be a little weird. That's why I got an Iplehouse JID. I consider her a 1/3 scale young child, and she's much shorter than my adult dolls. I guess I could get away with an SD10 as a 13 year old, but then the SD13 dolls would have to be older in my view.

 

I have a LTF, a MNF, and a non-slim mini, and to me, the characters they represent are all adults! Well... in Vince's case, age is kind of irrelevant anyway, his character is that of a living doll. Anyway, I guess I just don't much care for child characters, even when I find myself loving a more childlike sculpt. So while Pete looks like perhaps a rather elfin teen, and Vince looks like a child who happens to be the same height, and Billy looks like a very young child, to me they're all adults who happen to be small and cute...

It will be weird when I start bringing home SDs, perhaps... and because someday I plan on upgrading Moz to a really big guy so I can get the right features for him, at which point the floating (MSD) head will probably become his child self... so then I'll have a little kid the same height as two adults and twice the size of another.

 

I suppose I might have a somewhat unusual take on this, my YoSD is a kid and all my MSDs are pretty much adults, I only have slim MSDs with quite mature bodies. I guess this isn't too uncommon, the unusual thing is that my SD and the SD's I'm planning to get are all gods based on the Dungeons and Dragons mythology. Basically I had planned on collecting only MSDs, but I needed an excuse to get a 5Star Angelo.

So for me it is
YoSD: Kid
MSD: Adult
SD: Ageless god

 

I judge by the body type as well.

My 1/6th's vary, my girl's sixteen, my guy's also sixteen, my little boy is 10 and his partner/crush is 12 and my tiny is six.

 

For me, it depends on the doll. I've seen some MSDs who are really mature looking in body-type and face-type. My AoD chi is an MSD, and I consider him to be an adult. My roommate has an AE Coral, which is also an MSD. I feel her body is far too mature to fall into the child category--so I consider that doll to be an adult. On the opposite end, my DoC Kirill is certainly not an adult, but he's a shell for a teenager, so I consider him to be a teenager. Because of the wide range of sculpts, I think going by size doesn't work as far as putting an "age" to a doll.

Though, I have yet to see a Yo-SD that makes me think of anything other than a child. So maybe my logic kind of has a hole in it.

 

Well, originally I imagine Yos were meant to be toddlers, MSDs were kids, SD10 was 10-year-olds, SD13 was 13-year-olds and so on. But there are so many non-standard lines now - so those 50cm lines like the ID51 or Souldoll Vito are shorter than an SD10, but clearly meant to be adults. On the other end of the spectrum, the Dollmore Lusion dolls are huge at 80cm but are clearly proportioned like a toddler.

How about some of the adult proportioned tinies - like the Soom mini-Gems or the Lumedoll 30cm dolls? In the same size range as the Yos (more or less), but clearly meant to be fully mature.

 

I don't think MSDs and smaller really blend well with SDs at all, they're far too small (save a few that might work for the way the body is proportioned). To me an MSD/~40cm should be chubbier with bigger heads like a 6 year old or something and Yos to be like infants and ~30cm to be toddlers. This is why I only go for SDs. My youngest is a Zaoll(52cm) at 10 years old, and the other two are ~63cm aged 17 and 36 (their character's real world height is about 5'8"). I searched the net to find the average height of a 10 year old girl then roughly scaled it down to make sure the Zaoll's height would fit with my 63cm guy.

 

In general, more older, like the OP's thoughts. And like others have said, it depends on the sculpts, since there are "mature" minis and tinies.

My own dolls are often fantasy beings, elves and gods and spirits, and most are indeterminate ages... mostly adults, because I prefer more mature dolls... even some of the ones that look young are actually pretty old in years (if not maturity)!

 

I´m not so in age giving for dolls. My boys live all in an fantasy and are so ageless.

 

I don't have a wide range of sizes, so it's easy for me to say that SD is adult and MSD is child in my collection. I wouldn't have a slim MSD, since it'd look out of scale. I am getting a 65cm Iplehouse EID, but she's a goddess so it's okay if she looks absolutely massive beside everybody else. But I have run into a bit of problem looking for a girl that's supposed to be a very short adult. >.< There should be more 50cm doll options~!

 

i usually gauge their age by the face and the body of the sculpt. i consider my yosd to be around 8-9 ish. but ive seen other yosds that look to me like they are 5 and younger. Msds are usually the hardest to gauge, because some companies msd look like teenagers (12-15) while others look older like 16 -18. SDs to me can be anywhere from 19-30. it just all depends on the face for me

 

My little boy "Kuuya" is 10-12.
He is Junior size from BlueFairy which taller than 1/6 but shorter than 1/4.
My DD Saber is the same age as her character in the anime.
In my opinion,
I think 1/6 or YOSD is 7-9
1/4 or MSD is 13-17
1/3 or SD is 18 up

 

ahhh... well it depends on the sculpt I guess? And how the character is customized and their character and whatever their owner intends them to be?
For me most of my characters are "older" people; 24, 30, 45 years old... very few of my MSDs are actually meant to be children too, two of them are meant to be ageless creatures and my other just a very petite, wispy young woman.

 

A dolls size doesn't determine their age for me, it's more of their sculpt. Some dolls have more childlike faces or bodies even though they could be SDs. If a doll has a more mature body and face then they're a teen or young adult no matter their height