Name: Sergio Valente the Male Fashion Doll and Miss Sergio Valente
Made by and When: Toy Time, Inc.; 1982 (box year)
Material: Vinyl, plastic, paint, synthetic hair
Marks: ©1981 TOY TIME INC / MADE IN HONG KONG (on both dolls’ backs)
Height: (Sergio) 12 inches, (Miss Sergio Valente) 11-1/2 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouths: (Sergio) Sculpted straight black hair with a middle part, brown-painted eyes, parted lips with painted teeth; (Miss Sergio) rooted black bubble cut hairstyle, brown-painted eyes, smiling mouth with painted red lips
Clothes: (Sergio) White mock turtleneck shirt with Sergio Valente written in gold letters on a burgundy stripe with a gold stripe underneath the burgundy stripe; Sergio Valente jeans and brown cowboy boots; (Miss Sergio) pink polyester T-shirt with SV bull’s head logo and blue Sergio Valente denim jeans, white high-heel loafers are enclosed in a plastic baggie attached to box lining (wears white pumps for the installation pictures). The Sergio Valente logo (a bull’s head between the initials, SV) is printed down the sides of both pant legs and on each pocket of both dolls’ jeans.
Other: Sergio Valente the Male Fashion Doll, Style No. 7011 shares the mold used for the white male counterpart. The males and Miss Sergio Valente dolls were advertising tools for Sergio Valente designer jeans, which were popular during the 1980s. Both dolls have the usual five points of articulation plus swivel waists. Separately-sold fashions modeled by white SV dolls are illustrated on the back of the male doll’s box. The Sergio Valente trademark was licensed by English Town Sportswear Ltd.
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