Girls and Dolls

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

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When I was a little girl, I don't really play with dolls. I've never been a kind of Barbie-lover girl and instead, I prefer playing with vintage-dressing paperdolls. Even when I was young, I prefer playing hide-and-seek, tug-o-war, strolling down the forest daydreaming about tree-houses and secretly wish to get kidnapped by a witch. I don't really like the stereotype of girls-dolls and boys-plastic cars; I prefer playing imaginative game of wars, market-transaction, or royal-families together with boys and girls. 

As a kid, I think that dolls are just for kids and big kid like me should read books instead.. now..now..how silly is that? 

It's not until I celebrate my 17th birthday, I start receiving dolls and stuffed animals as gift. Maybe, it's just like that C.S.Lewis quote, someday we'll be old enough to love dolls once again. Somehow, the collection grows and I even start sleeping with some of them now (oh, that's very unglamorous, I know! hahaha..) 

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When the trend of wearing stuffed-animal bag occur in my school around 2003, I choose not to follow the trend. It looks like these girls are just too cute and mostly they carry similar bag (cow-shaped, dog-shaped). 

Not until 8 years later, I stumble upon this raccoon bag, and I fell in love straight away! It's quirky, friendly, super-hugable, and it's just the cutest stuffed-animal bag I've ever seen! (Yep, guess now I've finally old enough to start being 'cute' again.. but, just look at that racoon's tail!!) 

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 (it has a zipper on the back and a whimsical tiny tinkling bell!)

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Ah, well.. what do you think about stuffed-animal bag as a fashion item?

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I think it's simply irresistible. Such a guilty pleasure!

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Miy

Dress / A Plus

Hat / Mirota Batik

Shoes / Conexxion

Racoon Bagpack / a gift

Accessories / here and there

Photographed by Dito Yuwono 

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Hugs,