Weird question/request(s) you got about your dolls

That's actually a very common reaction regardless of the type of doll.

The first thing most non-doll people do when handed a doll is tip it up to look up the skirt. Some innate urge to check there are knickers, perhaps.. I don't know but I've seen it happen so often that I regard it as commonplace. I mean every adult who handled my childhood dolls did it so, including my (much older) sister who knitted outfits for my dolls when I was small.

Teddy

 

Really? That was the only time I ever remember a non-doll person doing it to one of my girls, so it stood out as strange to me. Doll people have done it to check joints or clothing, but not non-doll people. Though admittedly, I mostly have boys or girls that wear pants, so maybe that’s why it seemed so weird to me!

 

Honest! I know it's not just me since it's a phenomenon often talked about on doll forums

Teddy

 

I guess I’m the weirdo then! But I do have more girls now so maybe I should prepare myself!

 

That's so interesting! I wonder if it's just a doll thing or if it's just some human thing that happens to look weird when it's a doll... as in, when you hand someone a fruit or a stone, they tend to turn it over in their hands - or for a hollow tube, people will immediately want to look inside. But because the object in question is person-like, that urge to "inspect" kinda looks creepy instead...
I'm kinda guilty of doing this, but I think it's because of those porcelain angels and other antique figures my grandmother and great-grandmother collected that didn't have any legs (just a big dress with nothing inside). Made me think that dolls/figures don't come with legs by default, apparently!